Mia DeSanzo

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I am a mom and a grandma. I am a writer, artist, language enthusiast, gamer, and a pretty decent cook. And I am 100% Real Human and 0% Space Alien, as far as you know.

MMO Cartographer: Elyon, dead game walking

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It would be reasonable to wonder why I am bothering to write about my experiences in Elyon, a game that Kakao has long since...

MMO Cartographer: Exploring ‘tiny MMO’ Book of Travels

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On its website, Might and Delight describes Book of Travels as a "Tiny Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game," but that is an inadequate description of this...

MMO Cartographer: No Man’s Sky has worms

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I have come back to Earth to report on the Emergence Community Expedition I have explored in No Man’s Sky, the once-maligned and currently...

The MMO Cartographer: In the Echo of Echo of Soul

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How much would you pay to play a game that has been shut down as a free-to-play game and then re-released as a buy-to-play...

MMO Cartographer: A stroll through Eternal Magic, the Candy Crush of MMOs

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I didn't catch the first release of Eternal Magic, so the Steam release this past spring seemed like a good time to get into...

MMO Cartographer: Exploring Revelation Online’s Skyward World update

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Revelation Online, originally developed by NetEase and published in the west by My.games, recently launched its Skyward World update. It contained updates for players...

MMO Cartographer: Boldly going into Star Trek Online

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Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of your Massively OP cartographer into Star Trek Online, to explore a 10-year-old game developed by...

MMO Cartographer: Exploring Villagers & Heroes, our indie MMO of the year

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"Gee," you say to yourself, "I sure wish there were a good cross-platform MMORPG I could play on my phone and PC. One that...

MMO Cartographer: Reminiscing on the MMOs we toured in 2019

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It is that time of the year when retrospectives abound and people set their resolutions for the upcoming year. That seems like exactly the...

MMO Cartographer: Gamigo’s voxel MMO Trove is a blocky treasure

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Trove was not entirely new to me when I decided to return to its shores for MMO Cartographer this fall. I'd toyed with it...

MMO Cartographer: World of Warcraft, then and now

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A month before the whole Hong Kong Hearthstone debacle consumed the gaming industry - and blissfully unaware that this article would ultimately be held back because of it - I put my innocent money down on Blizzard for my MMO Cartographer column here on MassivelyOP. I jumped on the World of Warcraft Classic bandwagon. It was a combination of FOMO and curiosity that did me in.

Previewing KurtzPel’s new character, Lime, plus a peek at the patch and 2v2 tourneys

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KOG Games' early access MMO KurtzPel is due for a big patch, as we noted this past weekend, and it's coming in the form...

MMO Cartographer: Welcome to the Aura Kingdom

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For this week's edition of the MMO Cartographer, I have pulled Aura Kingdom out of my magical bag of maps. It is a bright,...

MMO Cartographer: Riders of Icarus is a very tame MMORPG

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I have a few vices, and one of them is a mild to moderate obsession with game pets and mounts. I am pretty sure...

MMO Cartographer: Visiting Runes of Magic for its 10th anniversary

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Runes of Magic turned 10 earlier this year, and when I saw a 10-year-old screenshot come up in my Facebook memories, I felt as...

MMO Cartographer: Climbing the Tree of Savior

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A friend of mine from one of my other hobbies recommended Tree of Savior to me a while back, but I was deep down...
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MMO Cartographer: Exploring Richard Garriott’s Shroud of the Avatar

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Since my last report from the field, I have been exploring Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, a game developed by Portalarium, described as a...

MMO Cartographer: Touching all the things in Project Gorgon

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Welcome to MMO Cartographer! I'm Mia, and I'll be your guide through this winding journey through interesting MMORPGs - some small, some forgotten, and...

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