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Desert Oasis: Recapping Black Desert’s Heidel Ball, from backstage to balancing
One of the complications of playing playing Black Desert is that it operates on UTC. Since I live in California, aka the center of...
Guild Wars 2 players have a wedding in-game after their real-life one is postponed
We all know that the pandemic put the kibosh on a whole lot of larger events, but we also have seen lots of smaller...
One Shots: Posing is half the battle
It's not just enough to tote around a legendary weapon in your MMO -- you're going to need to learn that posing is half...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMO developers stuck in the past?
Earlier this month - so what feels like at least a few years ago - the MMO community amused itself jousting over comments from...
GeForce NOW lets game publishers opt-in, Guild Wars 2 and Albion Online decide to opt-out
The stumble-stepped release of Nvidia's cloud-based games service GeForce NOW is having another wobbling point. Nvidia has elected to let game developers and publishers...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Greymoor, Phantasy Star Online 2 PC struggle during launch week
If you thought Guild Wars 2's No Quarter was going to be the release champion of this big-launch MMO week, you deserve a whole...
Perfect Ten: Unconventional MMORPG magic classes
Earth. Fire. Air. Water. These elements are all well and good if you want to summon Captain Planet for some reason, but they make...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 273: ArcheAge Unraveled
Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge Unchained, PSO2 PC, Elder Scrolls Online's Greymoor, Guild Wars 2's No Quarter, EverQuest, Daybreak, Sea of Thieves, and EVE Echoes, with adventures in SWG Legends, LOTRO, ESO, and Fallout 76, plus mailbag topics on rogue server security and digital rights.
Choose My Adventure: Taking the new Warbird for a spin in Star Trek Online
It was unanimous: We were meant to be Romulans and continue with the storyline that we were following in Star Trek Online. The voting...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s No Quarter
After March’s relatively lightweight release, Steel and Fire, a lot of Guild Wars 2 players were expecting something big from this month’s release, entitled...
Guild Wars 2 will make its upcoming 3v3 mini-season a little bit shorter
Guild Wars 2 PvP'ers have perhaps noticed a bit of a lull in regards to information on when the next 3v3 mini-season is set...
Guild Wars 2 dev discusses the game’s community, evolution, and future updates
ArenaNet Content Design Lead Andrew Gray recently took a few moments to answer some questions about the past, present, and future of Guild Wars...
Battle Bards Episode 169: Wild Things
Do you ever walk on the wild side in MMOs? Do you have a penchant for beastly races that aren’t merely reskinned humans? Then...
One Shot: Wedding bells
The other day I showed my kids our wedding video, and while we watched it I was reminded how much sheer work it took...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs do more to provide a backstory for your character?
Maybe I'm in the vast minority here, but it's always bugged me that MMORPGs just plop your fully grown, fully proficient adult character into...
Massively Overthinking: The more things change in MMOs, the more they stay the same
A while back, in the wake of our Desert Oasis column on Black Desert's guild system, Carlo and I were discussing guild wars -...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 272: Death of dragons
Justin and Bree discuss Fallout 76, WoW China, MMO financials, Dragon's Prophet, Guild Wars 2, and Aion, with adventures in SWG Legends and Elder Scrolls online, plus mailbag topics on character select screens and new classes for expansions.
Guild Wars 2 on the storytelling philosophy of next week’s No Quarter episode
ArenaNet's Novera King has emerged to pen Guild Wars 2's latest dev blog - no surprise since it's about storytelling and she's one of...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the shortest leveling content?
One of the oddball things I actually liked about Star Wars Galaxies - even its NGE version - was how wildly fast leveling went...
The Daily Grind: What MMO should a true MMO newbie try in 2020?
If you've ever been to generalist gaming Reddits, you know one of the most common threads is the "what should I play" thread, which...
