The Ancient Gaming Noob

Our daughter was home for the month of may, at stop over in her transition from Portland, where she got her undergraduate degree, and San Diego, where she was headed for her masters. So we had a month with her around the house with her, during which she wanted to setup a game we could play together while she was away.  She had been playing Stardew Valley some over the winter and wanted to try…

We have arrived at Friday once again and, as often happens, we’re here at the end of the week and I have a few items that I don’t feel warrant a full blog post… but that I still want to mention.  So we have another Friday bullet points post. EverQuest Legends Pre-Orders Arrive Next Week EQL – EverQuest Legends Pre-Order, Coming June 16, 2026! EverQuest Legends, that new look at the old world…

Hello Games gave us The Swarm update at the end of last month, which was largely centered around Expedition 22: The Swarm. No Man’s Sky – The Swarm I was a bit dubious of this two month long expedition as it intended to require players to work together in “huge battles” as the motherships of the Hive of Glass will be vigorously defended by fleets of the small, agile swarmers that will make “short…

Back at the start of the month we got the news that LOTRO was going to have something of a price increase when it came to some of their subscription plans.  SSG was really easing their way into the whole thing, but it still caused a few people to lose their minds. I covered this with my usual dive into “Hey, everything costs more how can we expect prices to stay the same?” routine that gets no…

The Cradle of War expansion, the first of a three part cycle of expansions focused on faction warfare, arrived in EVE Online earlier today. Cradle of War – Turn the Tide The name of the expansion gives you CCP’s plan,  They want to create a direct path to guide new players from character creation directly into low sec PvP and the war between the NPC empires, faction warfare, that acts as the…

The time has come at last.  Valheim, which has been hanging around in early access for the last five years… my first post about playing the game was in February 2021… as the small dev team built out their vision for the game… will finally hit 1.0 this coming September. Valheim 1.0 – Deep North The announcement out this past weekend in the rash of updates that were part of the PC Gaming Show, so…

I expected week twenty-three to be fairly quiet.  After a couple weeks with multiple titles launching, there was only one game queued up to launch. Fantasy Critic League – Like Fantasy Football, but for Video Games And then I found out it was Summer Games Fest this past week as well, and with that came a bunch of launch dates.  So the end of the post will have a lot going on.  But we’ll start as…

The hype and speculation was real.  Guild Wars 3, teased back in early 2024 at an NCsoft shareholders meeting, was announced yesterday at the Summer Game Fest. Guild Wars 3 Now people will just have to wait for it to show up.  With a beta target in late 2027 it feels like we are probably a good two years away from launch.  Still, ArenaNet played the long game pretty well when they did this with…

Starting off in Forza can run you through a bit of a change up.  When you first start the game everything is pretty much on rails.  You have to follow a set path, run through a bit of intro, do a couple of specific event.  For about 20-30 minutes there is one path forward. Forza Horizon 6 It is fun, of course.  If you like wild ride driving games Forza Horizon aims to deliver. Born to run right…

SOON! -Stars Reach Early Access Announcement Yesterday I got notified over a variety of channels that Stars Reach was going to land in early access on Steam “SOON!” Stars Reach – Early Access “Soon!” My gut reaction… and the general vibe from responses I have seen… has been some concern as to whether or not it is ready for this level of real world exposure based on how early access tends to go…

Capsuleer Day XXIII: Warpath has concluded. Quartermaster Traders will remain in space for an additional week, until June 9. -June 2 patch notes update The event is over.  Another Capsuleer Day has passed. Capsuleer Day XXIII We have a few more days to turn in our Warpath Operational Intel tokens for the rewards available.  I picked up one of the marauder bastion modules.  I went to the Amarr…

Windrose has been on our list of potential future destinations since it landed in early access back in April.  I’ve also watched Tipa and Team Spode work their way through it.  They’re already done. Windrose – in Early Access I was expecting we would get to it at some point after our return to retail WoW started to get stale… but then Potshot bought a copy and started up a server, so maybe we’re…

We got a bit of a surprise announcement from SSG last week about LOTRO getting an increase in some of the available subscription options.  The base monthly price will still be $15 a month, but there will be less of a discount for multi month plans. Lord of the Rings Online Here is the price increase in US dollars. Old per Month New Per Month Old Total New Total % increase 3 Month…

The Site We’ve reached the time of year when I turn off ads on the site because the revenue potential falls off a cliff sometime in March or April usually.  So no ads on the site until we approach the holiday season. That said, I do recommend any active viewer of the site to use a strong ad blocker.  I am partial to uBlock Origin on Firefox, but use whatever works for you.  My goal is not to…

We arrived at week twenty-two expecting two possibly big titles to launch, in addition to watching for one of last week’s titles to finally get enough reviews for a score. Fantasy Critic League – Like Fantasy Football, but for Video Games Also, this post is going out on Saturday night rather than Sunday morning because Sunday is the last day of the month, so there is a month in review post…

The first of the TWO special servers slated for EverQuest this year launched this week.  Named Frostreaver after… something I am sure… there is too much Norrath lore for me to keep track of… it is the server idea that they pulled together after polling the user base earlier this year.  (Many related links at the end of the post including my analysis of the results.) Frostreaver… either him or the…

We continue our roll on towards to the No Man’s Sky 10th anniversary this coming August with a new update; The Swarm. No Man’s Sky – The Swarm The Swarm introduces a new set of foes for players to grapple with. Confront a new threat to the universe in update 6.4, The Swarm. The Traveller soul is fragmented, and something terrible hangs in the sky. Battle swarms of elite agile ships, face off…