Author Archives: SynCaine

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About SynCaine

Former hardcore raider turned casual gamer.

Spoiler-free Fallout 4 review has me wishing this day would just end already

Posted on November 9, 2015 by SynCaine

Polygon has a great, spoiler-free review up for Fallout 4. The things I’m most excited about based on the above is that crafting sounds not just like its been expanded tremendously, but is more critical to success this time around … Continue reading →

Posted in Fallout 3 | 2 Comments

At least we know why Blizzard won’t be reporting WoW sub numbers anymore

Posted on November 6, 2015 by SynCaine

With Legion not coming out until 2050, pretty easy to see why Blizz doesn’t want to talk about sub numbers anymore; they won’t have any. Nice run WoW had, but looks like its off to the retirement home. No worries … Continue reading →

Posted in World of Warcraft | 14 Comments

King of cashing out, Blizzard matches three, sets fire to $5.9b

Posted on November 3, 2015 by SynCaine

Blizzard buying King is really a match made in heaven. What’s Blizzard famous for? Taking a game, cloning it, and putting the Blizzard polish on it. Not familiar with King? Some light reading for you via Forbes about all of … Continue reading →

Posted in Clash of Clans, Random, World of Warcraft | 8 Comments

Dead State: Get your scripted story out of my sandbox!

Posted on November 2, 2015 by SynCaine

As readers here know, I’m a big fan of sandbox gameplay, MMO or otherwise. The core thing that attracts me to the sandbox experience is the sense of unpredictability, of seeing a bunch of tools laid out for you by … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant | Comments Off on Dead State: Get your scripted story out of my sandbox!

CoC: Supreme Cream Season 1 is in the books

Posted on November 1, 2015 by SynCaine

(Text and stats by Delpez) Supreme Cream Performance Season 1 For the last couple of months I’ve been tracking a number of war metrics to measure our performance. No stats were gathered for mismatches in our favor – my loose … Continue reading →

Posted in Clash of Clans | 14 Comments

‘Dumb it Down’ is dead

Posted on October 29, 2015 by SynCaine

This post is sparked by Loire’s post about the Overwatch beta, specifically this line: The “simplified genre” idea is successful because it opens up games to a much wider audience, including the still-massive World of Warcraft audience. Certainly back in … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant | 9 Comments

LoL: Does Riot even need/want TV time for the LCS?

Posted on October 26, 2015 by SynCaine

Back in Dec of last year, I wrote about watching the championship for LoL. Well it’s that time of year and here I am, once again watching almost every match and loving it. It’s funny to think that LoL and … Continue reading →

Posted in League of Legends | 4 Comments

Kickstarter: Backing Stash

Posted on October 23, 2015 by SynCaine

I remember hearing about Frogdice’s Stash a while ago, but at that time it was very early in production and didn’t have much to show. Back then it was yet another MMO that sounded good on paper, and if I … Continue reading →

Posted in Kickstarter, Stash | 1 Comment

Early Access: To support but not to play

Posted on October 21, 2015 by SynCaine

I’ve now played a good number of Early Access titles, and while overall I like the system and how Steam runs it, I do have a personal problem with playing EA games; sometimes by the time the game is fully … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Steam Stuff | 3 Comments

Age of Decadence review

Posted on October 17, 2015 by SynCaine

Age of Decadence has finally made it out of Early Access and is fully released. I tried the demo a while back, and was impressed enough to keep the game on my radar, and now with full release, I can … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Review | 1 Comment