Fairy tales are full of impossible tasks

Warning: This is a very geeky WoW post. If you are not struggling with the cloak phase of the legendary questline, you may want to skip this for something of more general interest.

I kissed a flame, what did I expect

I don't talk a lot about the games I play here, though it is no great secret that I play them. My favourites are fantasy role-playing games (RPGs), though I like real-time strategy (RTS) games also.

At dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing

One of the sadder things about being an academic mediaevalist is that one is expected to regard the re-enactment crowd with a certain amount of disdain.

Syn I shal bigynne the game

Well. You knew I was going to have to buy this, didn't you?

Billet-doux

Dear Bioware:

You had me at 'successor to Baldur's Gate.'

Rainy Weekend, How to Deal with ...

It was a very Scottish sort of autumn weekend, which is to say it was dreich, and by 4 pm Saturday I'd moved to that irrational mental space in which it has always been 4 pm, always been raining, and ever shall be both, world without end, amen.

Game Review: The Path

Duly warned (and simultaneously encouraged) by reviews in Slate and elsewhere, I dropped the $10 download fee for The Path.