Category Archives: Video Games
Walls of Text
So, do you remember way back when ArenaNet people talked about how quest descriptions that are long blocks of text, which players have to sit and read before they can get to the action and will probably just skip instead, were … Continue reading
Levelling under the new system in Guild Wars 2
The April Feature Pack update in Guild Wars 2 shook up a lot of things, providing some bonuses (free unidentified dyes, free skins for many who would otherwise not use their PvP gear) and some downsides (loss of freedom in … Continue reading
April Feature Pack: The Megaserver
The final feature to be previewed before next week’s big (very big) update has been announced, and they’re not kidding when they say it’s a major one. The very way that servers work is changing. Once again, I note that this … Continue reading
GW2: The Little Things
Coming back to Lion’s Arch in the wake of recent events was suitably touching. The new background music, called Lion’s Arch Lament and containing echoes of the more familiar ‘Sea of Sorrows’ piece, adds a tragic dignity to the sight … Continue reading
April Feature Pack: PvP and Integration
The latest preview of what’s to come in the April 15th feature pack focuses on structured PvP – but if you’re like me and usually figure this means it doesn’t apply to you, don’t turn away yet. The theme of … Continue reading
April Feature Pack: Social, account-bound and free
Continuing their coverage of the April 2014 Feature Pack, ArenaNet have released three smaller posts in two days: one on ‘social play‘, one indicating even more things shifting from character- to account-bound, and one announcing free armour repairs. Each of … Continue reading
April Feature Pack: Wardrobe and Dyes
Information on the April 2014 Feature Pack continues, today with two posts: ‘Introducing the Wardrobe System‘, which explains a new way of dealing with skins and transmutation, and ‘Dyes in the New Account Wardrobe‘, which elaborates on how dyes will … Continue reading
April Feature Pack: Runes, Sigils and more
More teasers for the April Feature Pack (so soon; how much do they have if they’re explaining one thing a day and they still have three weeks to go?!) – this time with two posts entitled ‘Runes, Sigils, and Balance … Continue reading
April Feature Pack: Traits
ArenaNet today announced the April 2014 Feature Pack, an update for April 15th (not the next patch, you’ll note; that one falls on April Fools…) which contains no living story but purely new game features. It looks to be a … Continue reading
On armour discrepancies
Video games are kind of notorious for gendered discrepancies in character outfits. When it comes to heavy armour, many of us are tragically resigned to the fact that men will get full plate while women will get chainmail bikinis – … Continue reading
Psychopomp 