The Old Republic just ran a weekend-long 200% XP promotion for their upcoming expansion, sort of a ‘come level your mans so you can be all ready to level some more on the gay planet’ thing, and since one of the reasons why I quit playing was that my poor Marauder was drastically underlevel for her class quests on Corellia and also Corellia is…
Gaming is an exceedingly important part of my life and my history. One of the only ways I can chronologically relate to my memories is by bringing up what particular game I was playing then and on what system, that’s how integral gaming is to my sense of self. So naturally when it fell to me to mold and shape another tiny (and extremely…
So here are some things that I have actual personal and professional experience with: marketing video games death threats Here are some things that apparently some nice folks at Square Enix do not have personal or professional experience with: marketing video games death threats
This weekend is Aro-mas, that magical day wherin we celebrate the amazingness that is the day of my birth. Every year, I participate in my own personal tradition: enjoying my favorite things. I read the two books that have been my favorite since I was a tiny weester (Diane Duane’s So You Want to Be a Wizard and Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising),…
Just a few short months ago SWTOR was my go-to game. I don’t really know when it happened — everything was promising (because I’m no longer an end-game player), I was enjoying my characters’ stories, and in my head I was playing KOTOR3 with a chat client bolted on. And then, seemingly overnight, it all went away. I don’t even really understand how it…
Today is one of those days where my fingers are all twitchy because I do not want to beeeee at work I want to beeeee at home scaling mountains to spectacular vistas and making imaginary people fake love me. It’s been a month and some change, and I have four characters I play regularly with one at level cap, not just one but two…
One of the reasons why I am so pleased with Guild Wars 2 is that there was obviously some very definite thought behind the realism of various game skills and internal structures that delights me in a specific and particular way. For example, Mr. Aro is a hobbyist chef, and because of this I recognize that whomever was responsible for building the Chef skills…
So the pre-order early access/final pre-launch stress test for GW2 was this weekend, and I have a lot of Feelings. A lot a lot. I was pretty skeptical about this game for several reasons, not the least of which was that I’d spent some time in Guild Wars 1 a million years ago when the earth’s crust was still hot and was bored stupid…
So about a year ago, before my kid’s first birthday, I wrote a post about raiding with a baby. Raiding with a toddler proved to be slightly different (and, ultimately, so hard as to be basically impossible), but even without the classification of “hardcore” or even, really, “raider,” I still strongly identify as “gamer” — but also, now, as “mom.”
I need to start this off by being real: I was invited to speak on a panel at PAX Prime. The proposal was titled “Women in a Virtual World: How Gender Roles Can Affect Your Elf” and it was specifically by, for, and about women (who tend to be drastically underrepresented in conferences, and especially gaming spaces). My particular focus was to be about…
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