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Choose My Adventure: Elsweyr questing and dragon slaying further solidify my Elder Scrolls Online love

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I appreciate that this series of Choose My Adventure columns has started to read an awful lot like I'm being paid off by The...

Second Wind: V Rising’s 1.0 build is a fangtastic revamp of the vampire survival sandbox

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It doesn't seem possible that V Rising burst onto the scene almost two years ago, but here we are. I sometimes struggle to get...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the most generous login rewards?

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Like probably everyone else paying even a tiny bit of attention to the MMO genre right now, I spent this past weekend logging into...

Second Wind: World of Warcraft’s radically casual new endgame

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Today we're going to be dusting off Second Wind, a column where we revisit MMOs of the past. It's an older column, sir, but...
This is some Michael Bay contrast.

Wisdom of Nym: How to prep for Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail right now

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The next expansion for Final Fantasy XIV is not that far off. Sure, we're at the start of May, and it's not launching into...

The Daily Grind: What are the most underrated and underutilized weapon types in MMORPGs?

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Before it came to a close this year, I did some Guild Wars 2 Super Adventure Box with my kid, and I swung by...
Of all time.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best goats?

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Goats are normal, serene, well-behaved animals, as you can tell from the line of games simulating their existence in complete fidelity to reality. And...

The Daily Grind: What does your ideal space sim MMO look like?

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Even a quarter-century into the MMORPG revolution, we still haven't seen an interstellar MMO that really fits what I'm seeking in a space sim....
Surprised? Really?

WoW Factor: There’s probably never going to be a World of Warcraft ‘Classic Plus’

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As I always do when discussing World of Warcraft (and anything else, really), I am putting my cards on the table here: I am...

The Daily Grind: Are you a map completionist in MMOs?

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A few weeks ago, my husband was playing Guild Wars 2, and suddenly he sat back and declared that he'd finally, after all these...
What a dump.

Why I Play: Stardew Valley is still something special

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I'd been saving this for myself for weeks now. It was late Saturday when I finally decided it was time to stop waiting and...
Also, let's just put this out there, how about more robots?

Into the Super-Verse: A toast to City of Heroes’ 20th birthday

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How does you mark your first true MMO experience? Anarchy Online technically was the first MMO I ever played, although I was on dial-up,...
they don't know i can't kill a basic boss

The Daily Grind: What challenge in an MMORPG resulted in your most shameful string of deaths?

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Hello, my name is Eliot, and back when City of Heroes launched the character I made at launch 20 years ago could not kill...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: 10 times World of Warcraft was killed forever

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As many of you reading this may know, World of Warcraft is a game that launched and then immediately died forever. It then proceeded...

The Daily Grind: Do you avoid base-building in survival MMOs?

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Listening to some of the recent development chatter surrounding Funcom's Dune Awakening, I was reminded that this survival MMO had bases -- ones which...

Massively on the Go: April showers didn’t bring Pokemon GO May event flowers

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April was a rough month for Pokemon Go, as the game failed to deliver on Earth Day - an event Niantic used to champion...

Fight or Kite: Pax Dei’s alpha is equal parts survival gameplay and grind-fueled crafting

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In my experience, I’ve found "survival game" and "grindfest" are synonymous with each other in all but the rarest of cases. There just seems...

Choose My Adventure: Necro Kitty proves to be a reasonable Elder Scrolls Online tank

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I've had some minor grouping experiences in The Elder Scrolls Online before. I was around for some of the game's early days when people...

The Daily Grind: How do you define ‘old-school’ MMORPGs?

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One of the topics that comes up every year come award time is how we decided which MMORPGs are old enough - whether by...
With strong eye contact.

Wisdom of Nym: It’s OK that your Final Fantasy XIV character is going to look different in Dawntrail

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So we've all had a chance at this point to play around with the benchmark for the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion, and that...

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