Gaming Round-Up: Overwatch Open Beta, Bounty Hunting in SW:TOR, and More
The last week or so has been quite busy on the gaming front, and there’s plenty to talk about, so let’s get to it! Overwatch: A second chance to suck Blizzard began the month with a free trial open...
View ArticleReviews: The Warcraft Chronicle, Vol. 1, and The StarCraft Field Manual
Following the success of Diablo’s Book of Cain and Book of Tyrael, Blizzard has began producing similarly lavish lore books for their other franchises. Warcraft gets the Chronicle, which will be spread...
View ArticleCheating on WoW: Black Desert Online
Recently I was able to snag a free trial key for Black Desert Online from our good friends over at Massively Overpowered. I had a different reason for wanting to try the game than most. I wanted to get...
View ArticleStarCraft: Co-op Appreciation
I’ve starting to feel a little burnt out on the Old Republic lately, so for the last week or so, I’ve been playing a lot of StarCraft II’s co-op missions for a change of pace. I’m once again struck by...
View ArticleWorld Spectrum: New Cast Photos, Courtesy of Black Desert Online
As mentioned in my previous post on the game, my main reason for picking up the free trial for Black Desert Online was to use its famed character creator to build new recreations of the cast of my...
View ArticleYour Blog Post Is in Another Castle
Doing something a bit different today. While away on vacation, Syp over at Bio Break has kindly offered to let other bloggers do guest posts. Today it’s my turn, so head on over. The same rambling lack...
View ArticleImagining Overwatch’s Single-Player Campaign
I think by now it’s well known I’m disappointed by Blizzard’s decision to not include story content in Overwatch. The animated shorts and comics are fun, but they’re far too brief and far too scattered...
View ArticleSW:TOR: Inquisitor Story Complete
Continuing to shock myself by following through on my plans, I have now completed my third class story in Star Wars: The Old Republic. This one was a very mixed bag. It had some awesome elements, but...
View ArticleRetro Review: Looper
It’s getting a little tiresome to repeat variations of the same story, but here it goes again: Looper is a movie that looked interesting to me when it first released, but I missed out on it because of...
View ArticleReview: Warcraft, Illidan
It’s been quite a while since the last Warcraft novel was released. They seemed to pretty much skip having any tie-ins for Warlords of Draenor and go straight to Legion stories. Given what a debacle...
View ArticleSuperior Realities Fifth Anniversary: My Favourite Posts
It has now been five years to the day since I launched Superior Realities. In that time, I’ve written hundreds of posts, deleted thousands of spam comments, and wasted the time of countless people with...
View ArticleTSW: Loregasm
It only took a few years, but I have finally collected every piece of launch lore on my main character in The Secret World. It was obviously quite a journey to get here, but it really doesn’t feel that...
View ArticleReview: Warcraft (Film)
For me, this is a movie twenty years in the making. I was five years old when I started playing Warcraft games. I’m nearly twenty-six now. “Highly anticipated” doesn’t quite describe it. Still, it’s...
View ArticleCheating on WoW: Landmark
The endless cycle of MMO tourism marches on. This time, we’re making a stop at Landmark. Between the game’s tortured history and the fact I’ve never been much for sandboxes or building games, my...
View ArticleTSW: Night at the Museum
Gather around, friends, for you are about to witness one of the rarest events in nature. Tyler is going to say something negative about The Secret World. Funcom has now launched the new British Museum...
View ArticleSW:TOR: Space Batman Returns
Having had my fill of dallying around with various class stories, I decided it was finally time to move on to the post-launch content in Star Wars: The Old Republic. While I briefly considering...
View ArticleFan Fiction: The Black in the Red
Some time ago, The Secret World ran a series of contests as as part of their “IAMTSW” festivities. Among these was a character backstory competition, and of course, I had to enter. I chose my Templar...
View ArticleReview: X-Men: Apocalypse
As a long-time fan of the X-Men movies, I had hoped to see Apocalypse before now, but, well, life. Also as a long-time fan of the series, I had kind of mixed feelings going into the movie. On the one...
View ArticleReview: Dark Matter, “Welcome to Your New Home”
It seems Space is no longer putting up Dark Matter episodes on its website. That or they’re just being exceptionally slow, but I wasn’t willing to wait. To make a long story short, I had to download...
View ArticleOff Topic: Liebester Questions Because Why Not
Recently I was nominated for the Liebester Award by Ashley over at Robo♥beat. If you’re not familiar with the Liebester Award, well, for one thing it’s a fairly misleading name. It’s not really an...
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