WoW (Classic) Factor: The journal of Nieve Vinther – first entry
My name is Nieve Vinther. I am 28 years old and was born in the wake of the Second War of the Dark Portal....
Leaderboard: Do you buy the ‘Grand Daybreak Unification’ theory?
Yesterday, MMO blogger Wilhelm Arcturus of The Ancient Gaming Noob dropped a fun conspiracy theory in the comments of our piece on EVE Online...
The Daily Grind: Would you play Guild Wars 2 Classic?
At the end of this week's podcast, Justin and I were chatting about Guild Wars 2's big announcement that's coming up later today, and...
Massively Overthinking: The future of WoW and WoW Classic
With WoW Classic finally launched, perfectly capping off the summer with jokes about queueing like it's 2004, we can't help but look to the...
Design Mockument: Plausible ideas for The Matrix Online 2
When Bree found out that I'm a fan of the Matrix franchise of films, she said it'd be fun to see me take on...
Perfect Ten: Ten weird things I’m relearning with WoW Classic
It's been a strange week. No - it's been a strange year in MMO gaming, all things considered. As I'm going through old Lord...
The Daily Grind: What MMO do you not play but would still miss if it were gone?
I don't play RIFT. I never had, and on the occasions when I have it's kind of just not been my thing. But I still...
Perfect Ten: The fantasy MMO zone atlas
There are, let's face it, a limited number of different ways to design real-adjacent zones in any fantasy game. At the end of the...
Tamriel Infinium: Things we wish were in Elder Scrolls Online’s cash shop (but aren’t)
Convenience items in the cash shop are nothing new in The Elder Scrolls Online. ZeniMax has been selling experience boosts and mount training accelerators...
Desert Oasis: First impressions of Black Desert on the PlayStation 4 (and the PS Vita too!)
I needed a break from Black Desert after that disappointing enchant session I recounted in the last edition of the Desert Oasis column. A few...
The Daily Grind: Are you up for a buy-to-play ArcheAge?
Last week's news that ArcheAge is prepping a new buy-to-play, anti-pay-to-win server certainly caught a lot of our community's attention -- and divided its...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 235: The one about WoW Classic
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic, Legends of Aria, LOTRO, Black Desert, Astellia Online, Elite Dangerous, and EverQuest II, with mailbag topics on progression servers and stream etiquette.
Choose My Adventure: Anthem kept crashing, so here’s what happened in Destiny 2
This past weekend, for lack of a better word, was a shitshow.
Let me try to set the scene. My computer is about five or...
The Daily Grind: Did you fall for WoW Classic, and what do you think so far?
They almost got me, but not in the end. Right around 3 p.m. yesterday, just before the servers went live, in spite of my...
Leaderboard: What type of WoW Classic player are you – is there a disconnect between the playerbase and the game?
MMO blogger Wilhelm at The Ancient Gaming Noob came up with an amusing rubric for different types of WoW Classic players, perfect to pass...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the best (worst?) at ruining classes?
A recent thread on the MMORPG subreddit caught my attention: Do you ever dread what's gonna happen to your class when an expansion is...
Battle Bards Episode 151: Minions of Mirth
It’s an MMORPG you’ve never heard of. It’s an MMO soundtrack you’ve never heard, period. But as intrepid explorers of the musical unknown, the...
Jukebox Heroes: Hearthstone’s hilarious trailer songs
Pull up a chair and quaff some hearty ale, for today we're going to look at Blizzard's game-within-a-game-universe, Hearthstone. Now, Hearthstone's soundtrack is a...
The Daily Grind: What MMO did you not give enough credit until after the fact?
Sometimes I ask myself whether I really liked WildStar as much as it deserved. Obviously, it's a kind of inherently silly line of thinking;...
LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s prettiest and ugliest places
Depending on how you count it, at the present Lord of the Rings Online boasts somewhere around 45 zones -- a vast improvement on...