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The Daily Grind: When’s the last time you got absolutely sucked into an MMO?
I both love and hate those periods of time when I get sucked into an MMORPG. Usually this comes when a game first launches,...
Final Fantasy XIV’s second anniversary story follows the path of Estinien’s travels
The anniversary fiction for Final Fantasy XIV is as much of a tradition as the actual in-game event for the rising, and this year is...
Global Chat: WoW Classic impressions mega-compilation
When World of Warcraft launches, the world stops to pay attention.
The recent release of WoW Classic didn't just pull in hundreds of thousands of...
Flameseeker Chronicles: What we saw (and what we didn’t) in Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga announcement event
This past weekend’s announcement of Guild Wars 2’s continuation of the Living World story, entitled The Icebrood Saga, was met with all of the...
Skyforge’s Ignition update is live on PC with the brand-new Firestarter class
Bring your matches and your pyromania, folks: Skyforge's Ignition expansion is live today on PC, with PS4 following tomorrow and Xbox One hitting Thursday....
Guild Wars 1 fan remake posts trailer with Gwen’s flute, Prince Rurik, and plenty of river scale
Fans of the original Guild Wars might remember that this past spring we reported on an amateur game designer named Jomo who was looking...
Guild Wars 2 community clashes over Icebrood Saga announcement disappointment
It's been a tumultuous couple of days in the Guild Wars 2 community following the announcement of the Icebrood Saga - saga, not season,...
Global Chat: MMO roleplaying explained for the rest of us
Game designer Brian Green has been on a writing streak as of late with a whole series of blog posts about roleplaying in MMORPGs....
One Shots: All the awesome you can handle
One day when I grow up, I hope to be half as amazing and down-to-earth cool as most of our One Shots community here....
Heading back to Guild Wars 2? Check out this fan summary of everything that’s changed
Guild Wars 2 is seven years old, so it stands to reason that the milestone has put the game back on the radar of...
First impressions: WoW Classic is fun but anachronistic
I'm not really one to follow trends or scamper along the zergeist (a combination of zerg and zeitgiest that I've decided perfectly encapsulates the...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands rumor gains steam with new ghost ships leak
Remember that alleged World of Warcraft: Shadowlands expansion leak back in July? This one is picking up steam, as MMO Champion posted a screenshot...
Wurm Online just launched a new time-limited repeating PvE server called Jackal
Wurm Online players, today's a big day for you, as Code Club's sandbox MMO is dropping a new expansion in the form of what...
Final Fantasy XIV schedules its first patch 5.1 preview for mid-September
Before we hit the three-month mark out from Final Fantasy XIV's early access for Shadowbringers, it's time to start talking about the first major patch of...
SWTOR begins testing Onslaught’s crafting overhaul, Spoils of War adjustments, and the Dxun Operation
Star Wars: The Old Republic's Onslaught expansion may have been delayed a month, but BioWare is full-speed ahead on testing it.
The studio announced last...
Massively Overthinking: The future of WoW and WoW Classic
With WoW Classic finally launched, perfectly capping off the summer with jokes about queueing like it's 2004, we can't help but look to the...
Perfect Ten: Ten weird things I’m relearning with WoW Classic
It's been a strange week. No - it's been a strange year in MMO gaming, all things considered. As I'm going through old Lord...
Blizzard’s lawyers are busy again, this time suing yet another overseas company for ripping off WoW
Another day, another Blizzard lawsuit - this one lodged against the Chinese purveyor of Glorious Saga, a mobile/browser title from Joyfun/Sina Games that pretty...
Perfect Ten: The fantasy MMO zone atlas
There are, let's face it, a limited number of different ways to design real-adjacent zones in any fantasy game. At the end of the...
SWTOR explains just how you’ll get that free Nautolan unlock
If you were paying attention to anything other than WoW Classic on Monday, you might recall that Star Wars: The Old Republic slipped in...