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Back when I was taking a smattering of business classes in college, one of my favorite electives dealt with marketing. It wasn't that I...

Whenever I've talked about player housing in New World, my coworkers have requested tours of my in-game homes. Being a lazy worker looking to...

This month we mark a particularly sad anniversary in the MMO space: The 10th anniversary of the launch of Marvel Heroes. By all rights,...

The past few weeks we've been following this freakin' thing because... well, obvious reasons. But that has me thinking about crowdfunding in general, because...

During last year's April Fools' Day, I wrote about the important topic of MMO NPCs as muffins. At the time, I felt my work...

This article has been rolling around in my head since ChatGPT rocketed into the public awareness a few months ago, and just in the...

There's nothing worse as a fan of games to buy into all of the hype and previews of a promising-looking project only to see...

While I make my way through the new King's Gondor zone in Lord of the Rings Online -- impressions coming next week, hopefully --...

Back before Final Fantasy XIV's reboot launched, Naoki Yoshida talked about how the developers had plans to make certain primals be world bosses. Players...

Cars. They go vroom-vroom, and then they go really fast, and how do we live in a country where you basically need a car...

Let's just start with the premise out of the gate. World of Warcraft launched to sales of 240,000 units on its first day. The...

Developers like to talk a big game. It's expected, it's encouraged by all parties, and it's part of the fun. When a game or...

So now that Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is out, there is a very funny meme that is going around, but it...

It is by now clear that World of Warcraft's Dragonflight expansion hasn't exactly set the world on fire. This has set off another round...

We've all made jokes about Tarisland being "we have World of Warcraft at home." That's just a fun thing to make jokes about, and...

When Lord of the Rings Online released Mines of Moria in November 2008, the expansion became one of the most amusedly divisive in the...

One of my all-time favorite single-player game experiences was Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2. The underserved Western genre is beautifully realized in this open-world...

I want you to put a game in your head that you think is pay-to-win. No, you do not have to say it out...

While MMOs may not last forever -- or even a few years, in some cases -- the relationships forged in them can endure long...

I turned 40 this year. It's not something that I announced with any particular fanfare, due in no small part to the fact that...