Category Archives: Mass Media

Blizzard and J Allen Brack reverse course on the Hong Kong situation

Posted on November 1, 2019 by SynCaine

Blizzard, and more importantly, J Allen Brack, have publicly apologized for incorrectly handling the Hong Kong / Blitzchung situation. If we are being 100% honest, this is about as much as Blizzard could have done at the very opening of … Continue reading →

Posted in Inquisition Clan, Mass Media, Site update, World of Warcraft | 19 Comments

China takes a loss, lapdog Blizzard is still a problem

Posted on October 14, 2019 by SynCaine

Blizzard apologized with their actions, but not their words. That’s… something. Let me be very clear about what the words and actions mean before I dive into what I think of it all. China, via Blizzard, reduced the penalty, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, Random, Rant, World of Warcraft | 7 Comments

Blizzard picked a side, I’ve picked mine

Posted on October 8, 2019 by SynCaine

Blizzard recently banning a Hearthstone player due to a statement they made about Hong Kong has now put me in a personal quandary. On the one hand I’m really enjoying WoW Classic and want to keep playing. On the other … Continue reading →

Posted in Inquisition Clan, Mass Media, Random, Site update, World of Warcraft | 30 Comments

WoW Classic and TFT, by the numbers

Posted on September 27, 2019 by SynCaine

Lets talk numbers on a late Friday afternoon! First up is info from Riot on the success of Team Fight Tactics, the non-WoW game that I’m still playing heavily. The big number is that 33 million accounts play TFT a … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogroll, League of Legends, Mass Media, World of Warcraft | 1 Comment

WoW Classic: I love the difficulty so much I installed a mod to remove it!

Posted on August 30, 2019 by SynCaine

Reading some of the early reaction posts to WoW Classic has me mentality returning to the older days of this blog, specifically the thing where I pick apart another post because it always amuses me that people say how they … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, MMO design, Rant, World of Warcraft | 10 Comments

News review from E3 2019

Posted on June 10, 2019 by SynCaine

Lots of news coming out of E3, so let’s talk about some of it. First up, Cyberpunk 2077 has Keanu in it, and is coming in 10 months. That’s doubly awesome. The game itself looks almost too good to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, Random, The Witcher | 3 Comments

Baldur’s Gate 3 announced, might be out in November?

Posted on June 7, 2019 by SynCaine

Larian Studios, the people behind Divinity: Original Sin, have announced they are working on Baldur’s Gate 3, which will also be on Google’s Stadia streaming platform (a platform I have zero interest in). BG3 might also be a launch title, … Continue reading →

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Epic Game Store exclusives I actually care about

Posted on March 22, 2019 by SynCaine

In addition to more favorable rates for developers, a big differentiator from Steam for the Epic Games Store is exclusives. Exclusives overall annoy me because I don’t want more Steam-clones to browse, just like I don’t want more Netflix clones … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, Random, Rant, Steam Stuff | 9 Comments

A game about watching paint dry would sell more copies

Posted on March 13, 2019 by SynCaine

I’m going to add another log to the fire that is “Polygon has an article about an indie dev talking about how hard it is to be an indie dev”. I wrote a post about this back in Oct of … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, Random, Rant, Steam Stuff | 10 Comments

Top AI beats SC pros, who else could it beat?

Posted on February 21, 2019 by SynCaine

Bit of interesting news in the world of gaming from a while back; an AI beat a couple top StarCraft 2 players. Here is a link to get you started, but if you dig deeper there is a lot more … Continue reading →

Posted in League of Legends, Mass Media, Random, StarCraft Online | 12 Comments