Tipa compares her dense, bustling Pokopia island with her daughter’s serene utopia, musing on how our game worlds reflect who we are.
Shintar loved SWTOR’s Legacy Reborn update, praising its character moments, big Star Wars feels, and the lack of KOTOR-style cutscenes.
Owls is rolling into EverQuest Legends on Freeport with a shadow knight/necromancer/shaman, sold on multiclassing and a more solo-friendly Norrath.
Scopique walks through his Star Citizen fleet, from mining rigs and cargo tools to homestead defense and a couple of niche combat ships.
David’s Gunderholfen session sends rival guilds chasing the Ravens through sabotaged dungeon paths before a swamp basilisk crashes the party.
Wilhelm rounds up EverQuest news, from EverQuest Legends launching July 28 to the Lethar TLP server starting with The Serpent’s Spine.
The Chronicler spotlights Baltic Empires, a GMT strategic wargame where asymmetric powers vie for Baltic dominance through war, trade, and state-building.
Andrew Plotkin shares Witness feelie scans and a fun correction: the matchbook’s “long life” symbol turned out to be real Chinese, not a fake gag.
Anarchae checks in on work, budgets, Blaugust plans, Zelda, TV, and anthology reading while bracing for the resume-and-cover-letter grind.
Jimmy points readers to a new Analog Antiquarian piece on Richard III, a quick cross-link for the history-minded.
JJM argues his stalled gamedev projects happen when he chases cool engine code instead of building an actual game first.
Jeromai pivots from a GPT-4o letter about society to Blaugust, blogging, and “claudefishing” as a murky Claude-adjacent Substack trend.