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For those of you who don't know, this column was named after Final Fantasy XI. Specifically, it was named after the practice that particular game...

You've probably noticed that there are some studios and companies wherein the players seem to have a downright acerbic relationship with the people making...

I'm not really a comics guy, but I still have my favorite superheroes. For me, it's Dr. Strange. Marvel's artifact wielding, spell-slinging, multiverse traversing...

I’ve been struggling to come up with a succinct way to describe Eco. The game was recently the subject of a Whatever Happened To...

We're kind of thinking about the first World of Warcraft expansion around these parts this week. No particular reason, especially in my case; I'm not...

So, before we begin, this is what happened with one of the polls: a dead-even split between doing Instant Adventures and following the breadcrumb...

With the Burning Crusade Classic beta underway, it's hard not to be dwelling on the near future of WoW Classic. Everyone's maneuvering their accounts,...

Many moons ago, in the simpler times of 2017, Ubisoft delivered a fantastical game that sought to bring a close to the question all...

The one down side to Square's most recent live letter was the simple reality that it didn't get to deliver on the tradition of...

So, Nintendo and Niantic will work together for more AR games based on Nintendo IPs. No great surprise from me, as I'd mentioned years...

You think you were all decked out in finery and had a spiffy ride the last time you went to a formal dance? You...

Launch day! The date when everyone is talking about a new MMO, there's a mass of new players, overcrowding, disconnections, and all of the...

It was summer, 2001. EverQuest had just rolled out Sullon Zek, a no-rules "penal colony" server where the realm was as lawless as the...

Ah, Pantheon, you're aiming high for your still-undated alpha test! That's a really good thing. It's why we're rooting for you as a scrappy...

Cryptic and Perfect World Entertainment are known for their love of lockboxes as a monetization strategy. Therefore it was not wholly surprising when Magic:...

So it looks like World of Warcraft's next patch is going up for testing on the week of April 12th. What the heck is happening? At...

Yep. This certainly was an alpha test. For those who are curious, yes, I bought my way in to the Elite Dangerous Odyssey alpha, as did...

MOP reader Randomness recently wrote to us about a Reddit discussion about games with exclusive item shops before the game comes out. The issue...

The other day, I was in the middle of a humanizing anecdote when something happened that was tangentially related to MMOs. This prompted me...

Even though I've logged a total of 112 hours of Elite: Dangerous at the time of this writing, I'm still pretty much a noob...