Tobold's Blog

How long is a game? As it is frequently possible to play any given game faster or slower, there really isn't a simple answer to this. Th...

In November 2014, I profited from a Steam sale and bought Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, Digital Standard Edition for 14.99 EUR. I played...

Imagine you are an employer, and all your employees and everybody else who can do their jobs are organized in a few ultra-powerful labor uni...

I am approximately halfway through Pillars of Eternity, having finished all quests in Defiance Bay and Dyrford, and now entering Clîaban Ril...

In the Steam best-selling games of the week, this week there is a game called Meccha Chameleon . It is a so-called "friendslop" ga...

If you are reading this, I do hope that you feel that you get some sort of value from my writing, whether that be in the form of entertainme...

In Pillars of Eternity, the game I am currently playing, there are 8 companions in the base game, plus another 3 in the DLC. However, there ...

I live in Belgium. Historically, the average summer temperature in Belgium is between 18°C and 25°C. Belgium also has on average between 180...

Once upon a time, around the turn of the millenium, the state of the art of computer role-playing games was the infinity engine: 2D, with sp...

I am watching a rather ambitious series on Youtube where a streamer is playing *all* Baldur‘s Gate roleplaying games in order. He is still a...

Having worked nearly 30 years for the same large company, I do own shares of that company. Many long term employees of many large companies ...

So I wanted to try out Civilization VII after the Test of Time update, which was supposed to reboot the game. But as I hadn't played it ...