editorial

Pokemon Go has a lot to make up for after last month... nay, last season. The bonuses were terrible, the Research Breakthrough 'mon were dull,...

A while back, I was talking in the comments of an article about how bad The Secret World's combat was. It was the game's...

Time shouldn't zip along as quickly as it often does, especially when it taps us on the shoulder to look back and see how...

Choice is a double-edged sword: Too little of it is restricting and frustrating, yet too much can lead to decision paralysis and feeling overwhelmed....

The rumors have now been confirmed: Pokemon Go's next Go Tour - a theme-based event about a different Pokemon region held each year -...

One of the things I like to joke about every so often is various myths about the history of MMOs, and a lot of...

A few months ago, I discovered the world of Red Dead Online roleplay. The possibility of interacting with other players and discovering mechanics in...

Earlier this week, Pantheon cancelled its intensely stupid extraction shooter mode. Now, I don't say that it's intensely stupid because I dislike this sort...

I won't say that Warcraft Rumble was at the top of my most-anticipated games of 2024, but I've been low-key excited about this title...

The last live BlizzCon in 2019 was not a great show, but it was fundamentally a hype festival for Blizzard just like they've all...

Everyone loves a good enrage timer, right? It puts pressure on everyone involved in a raid or boss fight to pull their weight and...

I don't know exactly why I've spent so much time this year fixating on the question about what MMORPGs are meant to be and...

I want you to picture a nonexistent MMO in your head right now. Not one that hasn't released yet; one that hasn't even been...

Pokemon Go seems to be skipping the Turkey and giving us a lean-looking November, at least based on the leaks so far. That's not...

Not every game has to be an MMO. Adding more players in certain contexts really can ruin the experience of a game. But at...

Pokemon Go's newest feature, Party Play, is out now, and it's... well, very Niantic. Since the feature was first datamined, it seemed like it...

So we can pretty much confirmed now that Pantheon's goose is thoroughly cooked. Yes, I know, the folks at Visionary Realms are claiming that...

In the past six months, I've been tracking a very interesting conversation that's arisen over what the MMORPG genre as a whole has lost...

Just yesterday, MOP's Justin ran down the various features that the long-canceled EverQuest Next promised before its demise - including the promise of all...

As I often do, I'm going to start this column with a bit of history. But in this particular case, it's a bit of...