As part of my contribution to our group project, I had decided to look into Lord of the Rings Online. I knew several people that played the game already and all spoke highly of it so it had been on my radar for some time. This course and its recent change from a subscription model [...]

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From what I recall, playbour is used to refer to the intrusion of work like behaviours into play activities. When it comes to games and specifically MMO’s, the first thing that comes to mind on this subject is usually grinding. The font of all internet knowledge, Wikipedia describes grinding as “… the process of engaging [...]

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I guess the first thing to do is talk about what I’m going to talk about.  Then I’ll talk about it, then I might talk about what I said.  So in this post I’m going to quickly talk about a few things that I’ve found online that are kind of cool and seem at least [...]

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