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I have never really thought of myself as a lore person. I don't go into an MMO and memorize the lore or the backstory,...

Niantic recently revealed that Pokemon GO's Season 10 will be a bit different. For those of you who've forgotten, POGO PvP leagues work both off a ranking...

I spend a lot of time talking, reading, and thinking about MMOs I do not play and do not want to play. Some of...

I lived for level 14. Before level 14 was torture -- after was bliss. I speak, of course, of City of Heroes "back in the...

In my years of both playing MMORPGs and talking with other players, I've noticed a trend among some of us where we'll find ourselves...

You can't swing your arms at this point without hearing about "the metaverse" in some capacity, which is supposedly the reason why Facebook changed...

So Star Wars: The Old Republic fans are exploding on the internet about the franchise's latest expansion, Legacy of the Sith. As a player...

A couple of years back, MOP's Eliot wrote a lovely thinkpiece about MMO scams. He pointed out that it's genuinely hard to tell incredibly...

The Dragon Isles are quite the storied location in World of Warcraft in that it's easy to pull them out and dust them off whenever...

So there's a big update for an MMO you like, or you liked in the past, or whatever. It's an update everyone thinks is...

While we're still waiting for Pokemon Go's hourly pokemon spawns for February 26th's Johto Tour event, Niantic released a surprising update concerning the Masterwork...

For a country that was the epicenter of video games (and, in many ways, still is), Japan never quite latched onto the MMORPG genre...

There are many reasons to be deeply cynical about the sterile, lifeless morass that appears to be what people like Mark Zuckerberg see as...

When it comes to the topic of pet peeves in gaming, I think there are certainly many valid categories that are deserving of ire,...

It's been a shameful while since I last delivered a Jukebox Heroes column to you, but what better occasion is there for a revival...

Lost Ark has hooked me pretty deeply. I’m just over 30 levels and five or so days into the game right now, which sometimes...

In fewer than two weeks, Guild Wars 2 is getting something we've never had before in the game: boats. In fact, you might even...

Attitudes and thoughts about Valentine's Day vary widely, from crass commercialism to idyllic romanticism to complete indifference. But the fact remains that the spirit...

All right, so we aren't going to have a new live letter until Friday, which means that now I'm going to actually pick down...

The Anacrusis is a four-player co-op shooter intended to be a spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead. I was never a particularly big L4D...