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Last summer in this very column, I argued that ARPGs are the pizza of gaming: Even when they're bad, they're still pretty good. The Torchlight...

Genshin Impact isn't just a game that's easy on the eyes -- it's marvelous to the ears as well. Massively OP's Chris has taken...

In retrospect, outer space was asking for it. It was giving all of us a cold shoulder, being very distant, and lording its size...

One of the things I regularly like to do with playing MMOs is to put something else on my second monitor to watch while...

Whenever you're stuck for an MMO topic to talk about on a blog, you can never go wrong with chewing on the concept of...

Lord of the Rings Online has so much to offer players, from an expansive world to thousands of quests to, um, chicken soccer. But...

Could you describe Pantheon as a game about standing in place with other people and slowly leveling up? Maybe, if you were being reductive, but...

To the surprise (or at least disappointment) of many, it turns out that some players in Elite: Dangerous found an exciting and fresh way to...

MMORPG developer Raph Koster recently tweeted that he'd had a "debate with some devs who asserted that videogames require the player to be the...

This week's announcement that World of Warcraft will be bringing Valor back as a currency piqued my immediate interest, especially when we're not that...

Back in the first season of Guild Wars 2's living world content, the update cadence meant that there were a lot of little bits...

Guilds! They're remarkably consistent features of MMOs because developers have long realized that they are an unparalleled engine for creating drama, arguments, and recriminations....

I was not anticipating this. I came to this week’s assignment with not an inconsiderable level of dread. My previous experiences in PvPing were coloring...

So, hey, the moon! That's a place we haven't been yet, isn't it? We've blown up a moon in Final Fantasy XIV (or had...

As a video game music collector and lover, I am frustrated by how very few MMO soundtracks ever make it to a proper release....

I played Skyforge briefly when it first launched on PC in 2015, but only put a few hours into it. My short stay there...

Last week's call for screenshots of MMO giants brought out some big responses. Hefty contributions, if you get my drift. And we'll kick off...

Housing! It's fashionable, it's fun, it's extensive, it gives your character in a given game a place to spend time other than milling around...

Probably like many of you, I have gone through the initial zones in Lord of the Rings Online more times than I can count...

The tricky thing about games that offer you a lot of freedom when it comes to building is that sometimes it's difficult to figure...