terminology

A while back, when discussing Classic Guild Wars with MOP's Chris, who was playing it for Choose My Adventure, I found myself explaining that...

Any time you bring up The Secret World or Secret World Legends's bland, floaty combat, at least one person is going to chime in...

The other day MOP's Bree and I were having a discussion about boosting. This is not entirely unusual, but it was unusual insofar as...

Let's play with words. A while back I saw someone describing the act of MMO banksitting on Twitter without actually using the term. It's one...

Every so often, usually when it comes to World of Warcraft, I hear what I've always thought of as the Peacock Defense for making raid...

There are an awful lot of games falling under the broad header of "not quite an MMORPG but still multiplayer shooter with strong influences...

So here's a term Eliot couldn't possibly have dreamed up for our terminology columns: stream honking. So imagine you're MJ playing a gankbox on a...

Many moons ago (so, a few months), I wrote a column about terminology that we need for the MMO genre. This made our Editor-in-Chief...

A funny thread on the MMORPG subreddit last week reminded me that gaming slang is anything but obvious. "I just now realized that OOM means...

A major patch has landed in Landmark in preparation for the title's full launch later in the spring. It's not a patch aimed just at veterans...

My original plan for this week - during the few moments that I was capable of coherent speech rather than just babbling about the...