Beta is upon us, giving us our first big-picture look at the rogue changes planned for the next expansion. Previously, we’ve seen talent calculators, ability lists and other fragments of information, but we also had to rely on a certain amount of guesswork to fill in the gaps. Now, we can observe and test everything Blizzard has planned - and hopefully convince them to change it. There are serious flaws with the current implementation.

As a simple example, the changes to Feint...

• Aldriana

I picked up FF1 again, and decided to write a review (or maybe post-mortem?). It's a great game, not just because of nostalgia, but because it offered some pretty compelling problems despite (or rather because of) a lot of the problems that it had.

Prologue:
I first played Final Fantasy when it was first released. I was about 9. I don't remember much except hanging out at my friend's basement, we killed a lot of ogres. I think my party was something like fighter, red mage,...

• zeidrich

A Games of Thrones: The Card Game is a relatively new thing for me. For those unfamiliar with the game it's very much like other CCGs (Magic, Pokemon, etc). One of the big differences though is that it is an LCG instead of a CCG. The principle difference is that LCG card packs have fixed predictable content. Meaning that if there is a card you'd like to include in a deck you know exactly what pack to buy. In addition packs include three copies of every card included in the pack (which is the limit...

♦ emptyrepublic

So many projects to do. I wonder why I'm still procrastinating.

Soraza

One of the major announcements at Blizzcon was the revelation that the talent trees are being revamped (again) in Mists - and much more thoroughly than they were for Cataclysm. Instead of having a single talent tree comprising both “essential” and “utility” talents, they’ve split these into two different systems. Then, since the “essential” stuff is, well, essential, they simply give it all to you (at appropriate levels) just for choosing your spec, and all character customization...

• Aldriana