The major holidays are over and we only have one more to go (and the funnest one of all!). My gaming time is slowly creeping back up, and I’ve been making the most of it. If you watch Steam regularly you’ll notice they’ve been having tons of deals lately — that’s pretty awesome (my bank account disagrees).

So, as far as gaming goes I trialed DAoC with a friend which led to playing WAR again and finally CoH. WoW is still going, though after hitting 80 and not really knowing what I want to do it’s fallen to the wayside for the moment, and EVE is falling behind — probably going to take a break from it. STO should be going into open beta sometime soon, I might have something on that, and Allods Online should be starting up the next wave of testing (today?). It’s a busy time in MMOs.

On the darker side of things my NCSoft account was hacked to get to my Aion account. No clue what has happened to it. The account is back under my control and I get to see what happened tonight — the account wasn’t active so they did reactivate it for me. If they leveled my characters a bit I wouldn’t mind….

Lastly, CO — like most of the MMOs — has it’s winter holidays event going and it’s a grind just like the Halloween one… Boo! Cryptic: make your events fun and less grindy, please. I’ve killed that damned bear 40+ times and haven’t gotten an unlock — I don’t want to kill it again. Ever.

Work is finally slowing down, gaming time is almost ready to begin creeping up again, but first the holidays — here to create one final interruption. Well, I hope everyone has a good christmas and New Years.

As for gaming, finally got my STO beta invite (I guess that’s what I get for getting the lifetime sub at the last minute, eh?) and I can’t talk about it — yet. So there goes that writing material.

With WoW I’m still working my Death Knight up — hit 70, got my Blacksmithing up ahead of my leveling so it’s actually useful. I’m really, really glad to be on Cobalt ore — soooo much better than the ending classic and BC crap. Having a matching set of gear is also very, very nice.

I’ve been playing a bit of Borderlands here and there since I got it in the Steam sale, but there seems to be a memory leak of sorts. The game runs fine for awhile, then it starts lagging badly. None of my other games do this — even those with better graphics, or higher settings. Strange.

Lastly, tabletop RPGs are still cool to me — no surprise — and I’m going through the Pathfinder rules now. Partially to try and enter their contest, and also to see how it looks compared to 3.5/4.0.

I’m at work, waiting to go home and check out WoW’s 3.3 patch — reading up on the new goodies. I think I may actually have to try PUG’ing again.

In case I haven’t posted it before — I did hit level 80 on my warlock and am leveling up my death knight (spend most of it tradeskilling, it seems), so these new features should be pretty interesting and useful.

On the EVE side of things, the newest expansion launched — Dominion. This provides some shiny new UI features (new character select screen, mail system, in game browser, etc) that I enjoy. Everything else hasn’t really mattered since I don’t do null-sec stuffs. Maybe some day.

Lastly, the broken record, I’ll get some screenies of what I’m doing and deeper posts someday… when I’m not busy working or playing (sleep? nah, none of that).

I’ll be doing some posting at some point, I swear… As far as gaming goes — when I’ve had time — it’s been WoW mostly, going to hit 80 tonight on my Warlock. I’ll have more on that later. The rest has been spent with games I got during Steam’s one-day-only sales that happened last week — I got several games I had been wanting on the cheap. Now I just need the time to get through them all *and* write about it…

Oh, also — Paizo publishing that does the Pathfinder RPG seems to have some contest going on. If I can find the time I might try it.