Annnnnd we’re back!  Hopefully everyone had a nice couple of days with family, friends, or solitude. I thought I would give you all a quick roundup post of what we’ve been doing to kick things off again on the blog. We picked up a few games for Christmas that we’ve already begun to work through. [...]

We want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! This year we had fun making 3D Nintendo Christmas Tree Ornaments!  We set up a workshop in our gaming room with glitter, glue, scissors, band-aids, razer blades, and lots of foam board.  As you can see, the theme for our gaming [...]

We’ve been owners and fans of the Nintendo 3DS since it came out in March. As early adopters who have never once regretted our decision to buy a 3DS, we decided to create a quick Nintendo 3DS Starter’s Guide to highlight some of the great features on the system and point you towards some of [...]

I was warned that I might not like SWTOR’s crafting because it’s nothing like the type of crafting I enjoy.  I enjoy the type of crafting you find in sandbox games where you can spend your whole day working on a craft, become known as THE person on a server for what you do, and [...]

The little things in SWTOR deserve some praise.  I absolutely love the modifiable items.  Items with an orange name can be modified with enhancements.  Ctrl+Right click opens a window for the item.  For example, my lightsaber can be upgraded with a new hilt, crystal, etc., and my robe can take different components as well.  Orange [...]

I didn’t know that SWTOR’s battlegrounds, or warzones as they a called, are not level restricted. I thought they were your standard 1-9, 10-19, etc, but nope, anyone level 1-50 can be put into a war zone together. Like in Warhammer Online, players are bolstered up to make them competitive. This did not work well [...]

Hello faithful readers!  No, we have not died.  In fact, I just got home (in California) and settled in for a long winters nap (18 days until next semester starts!).  Graev and I started playing SWTOR yesterday.  We played most of the day and reached level 14.  I’ll give you guys a quick rundown of [...]

I’m about to shock even myself with the level of maturity and level-headed thinking here… I’m also about to contradict myself. This whole SWTOR early start thing doesn’t bother me at all.  Sure, I really, really want to play and it’s killing me that I can’t.  However, I think of the alternatives.  Do I want [...]

Other than studying my butt off for finals, I’ve been prepping for SWTOR to launch in just a few days.  I posted not long ago about my struggle to decide which class I wanted to play.  I ended up going back and forth over a Jedi Consular Shadow vs. a Jedi Consular Sage… and threw [...]

I’m oddly fascinated by the Battle.net Balance program.  First, here’s a quick official statement describing the Battle.net Balance system: Battle.net Balance is a new Battle.net feature that will allow players to store value in their Battle.net account, which can be used to buy Blizzard Entertainment products such as World of Warcraft game time, paid services, [...]

We want to express our extreme dissatisfaction towards whoever is responsible for removing the Netflix Party Play mode from the Xbox 360 during this latest update last night.  The Xbox 360 received a rather large update to the dashboard, but apparently the ability to watch Netflix with others in a party is now gone. Netflix [...]

Sanya Weathers, Director of the Community for Dominus (formerly Prime: Battle for Dominus), posed a question/poll on the Dominus forums today: “Do you want KDR/IRS scores on our leaderboard?” In short, No, I do not want kill to death ratios or any extensive stat tracking in any MMO that I play.  The following reasons outline [...]

My brother and I have always been really big Mario Kart fans. I doubt either of us can even calculate the many hours battling and racing against one another, friends, and family.  So it is fairly obvious that we would immediately pick up the latest iteration of the series, especially since its multiplayer functionality allows [...]

As the end of the year approaches, and a rather big month in gaming begins, we would like to inform/remind you about our presence in social media and projects/plans we have coming up. Twitter  We’ve been on twitter for a while now.  We try to post deals we find, point towards interesting blog topics on [...]

A mixed bag of stuff tonight. DOTA 2 I’ve been having some great games today in DOTA 2.  I played a couple solo, some with Graev, and some with 3 other guys from the community.  I’m getting better — I can actually tell that my skill is increasing for the first time in a while.  [...]