Brave Frontier – my newest free-to-play obsession. Same formula as many other “collectible card games” – you collect units or various rarity, level them up and evolve them, form squads and go off to battle. So what makes this different…
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D&D: Arena of War Review
Mobage/DeNA, the sucker of my time via collectible digital goods, has teamed up with Wizards of the Coast (and Hasbro) to release a game whose theme hits close to home: Dungeons and Dragons: Arena of War. You have a stable of…
A short, short break from video games
I interrupt my video-game blog posts with a short post about another hobby of mine: tabletop miniatures! So I took a short break from video gaming – one night – because I was sick and felt uneasy looking at monitors…
Hearthstone Review
Thanks to my wargaming friend, Jay, I got into the Hearthstone Beta. My expectations were of a Magic: The Gathering game, and not much else. While looking around for Beta key invites/giveaways for my fellow podcasters, I stumbled on this article,…
Battle Nations 3.0
I haven’t posted in a while, so I’ll use this opportunity to plug one of my favorite iOS games – Battle Nations! So I’ve been playing Battle Nations for iOS mobile since the end of 2011, shortly before the first…
Being social in social gaming
I’ve been playing mobage’s Fantasica for quite some time, and now Marvel: War of Heroes. In many ways, these “games” aren’t nothing more than a glorified card-collecting and databasing engine, but they are touted as social games as well. At…
100 Rogues – Victory FAIL
I’m a fan of rogue-likes, but I prefer more of the Chunsoft line of games, “Torneko: The Last Hope”, “Shiren the Wanderer”, and to some extent, the Pokemon games too. Never played the Chocobo one. I like these more for…
Marvel:WoH – I forgot to turn in my shards!
I consider myself an obsessive-compulsive gamer. I had accrued over 400 ISO-8 shards from the most recent S.H.I.E.L.D. Enforcement Training event, plus another 100-150 more from sharing and gifts. I have exchanged plenty of shards (1 card per 3 shards…
