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Reinventing the Conversation Wheel: A Commentary on Peer Pressure

BioWare is famous— perhaps infamous, even— for its conversation wheel. It’s the game mechanic that allows players to mold and shape their experience as the story unfolds by choosing responses to NPCs via conversation/RPG cutscenes. In the first Knights of … Continue reading

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fun (ME3 SPOILER WARNING)

WARNING: This post contains spoilers for the Mass Effect series, chiefly ME3 and the “Extended Cut” DLC. The post will also revisit notes made on Algalon and the Ulduar raid in Warcraft‘s WotLK expansion.

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Mini-Post: SWTOR and the F2P Dilemma

Ever since E3, rumors have surrounded Bioware and Star Wars: The Old Republic, chiefly in the department of switching to a free-to-play (F2P) format— or, at least a free-to-play-until-X-level model like WoW currently has. This is music to a lot … Continue reading

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