anarchy online

A while back on the MassivelyOP Podcast, Justin and I were trying to sort through why New World's endgame hasn't had staying power with...

A while ago on the MOP Podcast, Justin and I randomly wound up on the topic of camping in MMOs - not pitching a...

This past week, a chunk of the endgame-focused Guild Wars 2 community was up in arms over the profession balance update and the perception...

So here in the MMORPG genre, we've been working under the assumption for the last few years that the "big five" MMOs that dominate...

As one of our resident fans of old MMOs, I always have to clarify that it's the systems and ideas in old games that...

A while back, someone in our comments (I can't find it again, so I can't remember who!) dug up a quote from Raph Koster...

Starting out brand-new in an MMORPG, especially one not long on the market, is a thrilling and heady journey of discovery. However, such journey...

Back in April, MMO Fallout's Connor and I had a lil tweet convo about grudges. He was joking that there will be aged gamers...

I vividly remember a conversation I had with my then-girlfriend's parents back in 1996 about the potential of this growing "internet" phenomenon. With my...

It has been another thrilling year of exploring the relatively unknown or forgotten lands of MMORPG history here in The Game Archaeologist. From projects...

A while back in MOP's work chat, we were chatting about Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons and how its elite specs line up...

Five years ago this week - back in 2016 - the MOP team and readers did an epic Massively Overthinking picking out their top...

After my wife and I saw an X-Men movie a while back, we got into a discussion about what mutant power we'd pick for...

I'm gonna say something wild right now: In some ways, CliffyB was ahead of his time. My husband and I came to this realization...

It's time for the departure of yet another name you might recognize from Blizzard, but you might recognize him from other projects as well....

In the relatively short history of MMORPGs so far, there have been a few years that I would say were watershed moments for the...

Back when Daybreak announced that EverQuest's 19th expansion would be titled Rain of Fear, I instantly found myself tripping over the name. I shouldn't...

Justin and Bree discuss Aion Classic's messy launch, SOLO's launch date, LOTRO's legendary servers, and Anarchy Online's 10th birthday, with adventures in WoW Classic, FFXIV, and Albion Online, plus a mailbag topic on zombie MMOs. (Not real zombies.)

July 27th 2001. On this date, Funcom pulled the trigger on Anarchy Online, launching it in North America with a planned release in Europe a...

Last week, we covered some of the initial events Funcom was rolling out for Anarchy Online fans to celebrate its 20th birthday. As of...