daily grind

I was reading a review of a certain tiny MMO the other day when a line jumped out at me. The player was complaining...

I was having a laugh at myself the other day because I saw an ad for those little finger chopsticks - you know, those...

I do not know what the sixth zone in Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail will be, but I know it's going to be wild. The...

I tend to have a bone to pick with World of Warcraft's boss fights, which is a bit of an issue when there are...

The other day, Justin and I were joking about the Allan "Orion" Maki interview that turned out to be a massive three-hour affair. Orion...

Fantasy, as a genre, is pretty thoroughly represented in games of all stripes. Video games, tabletop games, and so forth. What can you say?...

MMO combat is fun. It is. I love trying out combat skills, grouping with friends to take down bosses, and hearing the sound of...

Back in March, Chris covered a Mad World patch that had the both of us scratching our heads: The English translation of the game's party system UI was using the term "mob" for "party" or "group." While you can kind of see the logic, it's not something an actual professional localization team would ever do, as the word mob means something entirely different in English-language games.

I've probably told this story before, but a whole lot of my early gaming characters from when I was younger, including in MMORPGs, were...

I will never stop making fun of Prince Rurik in the original Guild Wars. It will simply never happen. No one else is going...

I admit that I have a weakness to MMOs that woo me back into playing them. So when SWTOR changed hands to Broadsword and...

The other day in Lord of the Rings Online chat, the topic of guild drama came up and took one hell of a twist....

A while back on the MOP Podcast, I was waxing on about housing and crafting and player cities in SWG Legends, when Justin asked...

Unless you've been playing World of Warcraft fairly faithfully during the Dragonflight expansion, you're probably buried in content and objectives if you've tried to...

MMORPGs have an impossible problem: If they patch whenever they can - big patches, small patches, whatever is finished and ready to go -...

Heya, folks, we're trying something just a little different this April, and we hope you'll be on board for it. Traditionally, we've avoided any...

I've written a couple times about the way that our history in MMOs can sometimes ripple through in our play experiences, which is not...

World of Warcraft certainly provoked the raising of many, many eyebrows last week when it announced that its secret March patch ended up being...

A few weeks ago, the Ultima Online team released a newsletter, and its very first entry caught my eye. "I want to address a pressing...

I have, it must be said, a high tolerance for grinding and repetition. I can handle a very long stretch of doing the exact...