City of Heroes, Atlas Park, November 30, 2012. Hundreds of heroes standing together. Someone was playing Taps over voice chat. I screenshot my character one last time. I still have that screenshot as my desktop background.

With CoH private servers running strong, I have been wondering: does playing on a private server satisfy the nostalgia, or does it just remind you of what we lost?\n\nI log into Homecoming sometimes and it feels familiar but different. The community is great but smaller. The game is the same but the ...

I do theatrical LARP. More story-focused, less combat. The emotional intensity of a well-run Nordic LARP is unlike anything in digital gaming. You cannot simulate genuine human connection.

City of Heroes. I had a Fire/Fire Blaster named Cinderfall who I played for over 3000 hours. When they shut the servers down I actually cried. Not ashamed to admit that.