grinding

Last week saw the release of New World's big summer update, including an extensive music system, the Medleyfaire event, and various endgame tweaks. This...

The wonderful thing about video games is that they let you experience impossible things that could never happen in the real world. Like buying...

If you've been paying any amount of attention to New World, you've probably heard of the dreaded "level 30 wall" - the idea that...

It might seem kind of odd, but part of my problem with playing Final Fantasy XI back in the day was just about the time...

Sometimes you just want something in an MMO that feels like chopping wood. It's productive, it's engaging enough that you don't dislike it, and...

These days, a lot of people are sitting at home without necessarily much to do. We are many of us content locusts now, swarming...

Some of my fondest memories of World of Warcraft involve Adam Sandler and the Badlands. My wife and I had a pretty steady tradition made out...

Grinding has existed as long as we've had MMOs. In the earliest days of my time in the genre, grinding was the game; I...

Practically every MMO on the market today has had to contend with botting and the range of issues that come with it, and EVE Online...

Though EVE Online has a reputation as a cut-throat PvP sandbox where anything goes, the fuel that fires its conflict engine has always been...

Of all the terminology associated with EVE Online, the one thing that's always made me a bit uncomfortable is to hear players describe PvP as "generating...

When I first discovered EVE Online back in 2004, it had been out in the wild for just under a year and was a much...

Ubisoft recently revealed that a player reached the maximum level and Dark Zone rank in The Division just a week after its launch. While many players...

One of the things that I like about the original Guild Wars was that leveling was pretty much locked into the same speed from...

EVE Online has always been a very long-term game, with players setting goals that often take months to achieve and forming friendships over the...

I've had the whole weekend with Heart of Thorns now, and I'm progressing very nicely in both the story and masteries. I've still yet to...

EVE Online's realtime skill training system has been a major point of contention throughout the game's lifetime, being a boon for those with little...

There was a certain level band in World of Warcraft where my wife and I just resigned ourselves to a lack of useful quests...