LOTRO Legendarium: A very Middle-earth wedding
Dearly beloved players, we are gathered today to celebrate the release of Lord of the Rings Online's Update 27, and with it, a great...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG do you wish were on mobile?
Remember way back in the day when Guild Wars 2 was supposed to get a mobile version? It never did, and whatever mobile toy...
Massively Overthinking: Can Amazon actually save Crucible?
Earlier this week, Amazon pulled Crucible back into closed beta for some hefty retooling, a move that surprised basically no one. We'd watched the...
Vague Patch Notes: Trying to salvage MMOs from bad launches
So I'm glad that Crucible got a "pull back to beta" instead of a complete shutdown. I'm surprised but still happy because that's more...
The Daily Grind: What systems do you avoid learning properly in MMOs?
Enhancement Diversification in City of Heroes was meant to break some degenerate enhancement effects, but it also meant that you had to think a...
Choose My Adventure: EVE Online wasn’t really all that bad I guess
As I alluded to last week, I’ve been putting in a lot of thought into my time with EVE Online over the course of...
Perfect Ten: World of Warcraft’s multicolored elf rainbow
Remember how I managed to get an entire column out of all the different flavors of troll within World of Warcraft? Except I kind...
The Daily Grind: What does World of Warcraft actually do well?
We all know that World of Warcraft gets its fair share of criticism and grumpy rants, particularly in this Battle for Azeroth era. And...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 278: Patchy McPatchface
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, DDO, Pantheon, SWTOR, BDO, and Blade & Soul, with adventures in SWG Legends, LOTRO, and WoW, plus mailbag topics on ship combat and inventory annoyances.
First impressions of Star Trek Online’s new Klingon tutorial and House Divided arc
One of the things I have always admired about Star Trek Online is the fact that its writers know how to take a premise...
Massively on the Go: Fun ideas for online play in Animal Crossing New Horizons
I love sandbox gameplay. I'm pretty sure a lot of you readers do too, which is probably why a good deal of us have...
The Soapbox: PvP MMOs desperately need PvE-style feedback loops
As I settled into my captain's chair for my evening visit to World of Warships the other night, I had an interesting experience. In...
The Daily Grind: What do you think about Reddit’s new toxicity policy in relation to gaming?
Yesterday, Reddit went on a tear banning 2000 of the most toxic subs across the platform and instituting a new content policy and enforcement...
The Soapbox: The world of Gloomhaven is primed to be an MMO
Anyone familiar with modern board games will immediately recognize and likely have a positive opinion on Gloomhaven. It is an absolute juggernaut in the...
Wisdom of Nym: What does Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.3 delay mean for the schedule?
Gosh, remember when it seemed like we... like, actually knew what 2020 was going to look like, or at least in the broad strokes?...
The Daily Grind: Would we all be better off without MMO wikis and guides?
A few weeks ago, there was a supremely contentious thread on the MMORPG subreddit, one so contentious that the original poster deleted the thread...
Global Chat: Too many shipwrecks in MMOs
In the vast annals of MMO tropes, there's one that has been in front of you all along and you've probably never noticed: shipwrecking...
The Daily Grind: Do you watch developer videos for MMOs?
Covering videos in this job is just plain annoying. It is. An information-dense text post takes me a few minutes to read through, I...
The Game Archaeologist: When World of Warcraft opened Ahn’Qiraj’s gates
This past month, Blizzard has been testing what might well be the milestone moment for World of Warcraft Classic: The Ahn'Qiraj gates event. In...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do scripting well?
In the land between dynamic or reactive content and stock-still NPCs spitting out quest text boxes in MMOs is the creative use of scripting...
