Category Archives: Random

Actually do something good

Posted on December 4, 2015 by SynCaine

I almost never post about real life here on this blog, because I know people don’t come to a blog that is usually rando rants about videogames to hear about serious topics, but today is an exception for an important … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant, Uncategorized | 64 Comments

Steam: A premium service at a basement price

Posted on December 1, 2015 by SynCaine

I’ve teased Az a few times about his ‘poor people’ life choices, be it not going with an iPhone or buying games for a few bucks less on a platform that isn’t Steam. The root of the teasing is that … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Steam Stuff, Uncategorized | 18 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 →

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‘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

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 →

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What’s been keeping me busy gaming wise of late

Posted on October 13, 2015 by SynCaine

Slow gaming times for me of late, hence the lack of blogging. I’m still playing a bit of ARK, though restarting on a server is a bit rough, as you are basically retracing previous steps, and with the rapid pace … Continue reading →

Posted in ARK, Blood Bowl, Random, Site update | 6 Comments

Dungeon Boss – Grind the game, not the UI

Posted on September 28, 2015 by SynCaine

Dungeon Boss continues to impress and entertain me, so if you haven’t already, pick it up and lets be ‘friends’. I mentioned before about the honesty of the games ‘grind’ (air quote because for many grind is a bad word, … Continue reading →

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Oh so very lumpy

Posted on September 9, 2015 by SynCaine

Remember when we (Az) were doing a breakdown of that oddball grouping of Destiny and Hearthstone? Trying to figure out what percentage of the pie was Destiny and what crumbs HS contributed? Well… Giving HS credit for crumbs was grossly … Continue reading →

Posted in Random | 9 Comments