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Over the past couple of days, I've been watching and writing about the fun little tire fire that Elite: Dangerous ignited when it announced...

There's a certain poetry to the fact that this year, on the 20th anniversary of City of Heroes, we can all play the game...

Back in 2021, we learned that there was not going to be a BlizzCon 2022. This did not surprise me, and I penned a...

MOP reader Orca7 tipped us a funny piece from The Onion from last week that reminds me MMORPGs are still not regarded in the...

So last week, I spent a whole lot of words talking about what "the meta" actually means when it comes to MMOs. Put very...

All the way back in 1996, Bethesda introduced an interesting feature with its second Elder Scrolls RPG. Daggerfall included "spellcrafting," a system that allowed...

Considering the fact that every MMORPG is in a war of content basically forever, I say it makes sense that they would embrace level...

There are two types of people on April 1st: those who are annoyed and indifferent to the tomfoolery going on all around them, and...

For the past few months, Amazon Games has repeated the same mantra in regards to New World's future: Wait for the announcement in June....

Last week, all productivity in the MOP office ground to a halt when we started playing a game to change an MMO's title into...

When it comes to MMORPG games, most of the time I hold just one home title -- an MMO that I stay subscribed to...

Last weekend, I was away on a mini-vacation with my kids; we zipped down to Florida for my brother's beach wedding, then zipped back,...

Based on a wholly out-of-context reading, the headline for this edition of Wisdom of Nym might sound completely ridiculous. Final Fantasy XIV is not...

Back in February, MMO YouTuber MarleMMO reminded me that Ashes of Creation is planning to obscure enemy health bars during PvP - a concept...

Anyone who says that graphics in an MMORPG don't matter at all who is not playing a MUSH is gently lying to you because...

At the start of Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo Baggins famously celebrates his 111th birthday (alongside Frodo's own 33rd birthday). He looks back at...

It's hard for me to fathom going anywhere or doing anything without music as part of the background of my life. That's certainly true...

There's an interesting aspect I've observed about World of Warcraft as we slowly creep toward the release of The War Within. No one who...

Back in December, Guild Wars 2 boss Josh Davis told fans that "alternate servers and hardcore modes aren’t a priority for ArenaNet," as the...

I'm pretty blasé about most monetization in games, but there are a few things that I don't like, and charging for early access is...