Tyler F.M. Edwards
Tyler Edwards is a lifelong gamer, freelance writer, and occasional game designer living in Toronto, Canada. Here at MOP, he is the main contributor for the Not-So-Massively and Vitae Aeternum columns. He's fascinated by the potential of video games as a story-telling medium, and quickly loses interest in most games that can't engage him on that level. He loves Elves as much as Justin hates them.
Interview: New World’s Scot Lane on the MMO’s past, future, and upcoming dungeon finder
New World launched two years ago today. While it may have stumbled out of the gate, I believe it has since evolved into one...
Not So Massively: The growing field of StarCraft II spiritual successors
StarCraft II ranks very highly on my list of my favourite games of all time, but while it remains popular, it is in maintenance...
Vitae Aeternum: The pros and cons of New World’s transmog
In my very first Vitae Aeternum two years ago, I criticized some of the ways New World lacks character customization. It took a while,...
Previewing New World’s Rise of the Angry Earth expansion: Artifact gear, endgame, crafting, and onward
In my previous Vitae Aeternum column, I covered the big tentpole features of New World's first paid expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, including...
New World’s first expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, launches October 3 with mounts, flails, new housing, and more
New World's 2023 roadmap promised its first expansion, but until now, we had few details on what that meant. Recently the folks at Amazon...
Not So Massively: First impressions of Warcraft Rumble
Being Canadian and living door to the global superpower down south sometimes feels like being the overlooked younger sibling of a celebrity, so it's...
First Impressions: I sat through Wayfinder’s queues so you don’t have to
Over the past few days, I have spent many hours waiting in Wayfinder's seemingly endless queues. But what of the game at the end...
Not So Massively: Despite everything, Overwatch 2’s story missions deliver an epic experience
After a long wait, a tortured development, a great deal of cutting back on features, and endless controversy, the PvE update for Overwatch 2...
First Impressions: Palia is missing the depth MMO life-skillers are hoping for
"Life-sims" are another of those game genres that I like in theory, but less so in practice. Most have graphical styles I find off-putting,...
Not So Massively: Revisiting Heroes of the Storm in 2023
Social media algorithms are a dangerous thing. A few weeks back, Reddit began recommending me the sub for Heroes of the Storm. Although I...
The Soapbox: Why The Secret World really failed
We're back with part two of my long-overdue post-mortem of The Secret World, my favourite MMORPG of all time. In the first part I...
Vitae Aeternum: New World’s second season improves on the first
New World's first attempt at seasonal content didn't exactly impress, but in typical New World fashion, the developers at Amazon Games have already made...
Localized tooltips appear to have leaked New World’s next weapon
The recent season two patch for New World also brought with it a bit of a spoiler for the fall season: The next weapon...
The Soapbox: A belated The Secret World post-mortem
This weeks marks the eleventh anniversary of the launch of The Secret World. While the game is still playable (for those with existing accounts),...
Vitae Aeternum: Touring New World’s housing system
Whenever I've talked about player housing in New World, my coworkers have requested tours of my in-game homes. Being a lazy worker looking to...
Vitae Aeternum: What Amazon’s Lord of the Rings MMO should (and shouldn’t) take from New World
We've had one, yes, but what about second attempt by Amazon to deliver a Lord of the Rings MMO? During the last run at...
Not So Massively: Godsworn is Warcraft III meets Age of Mythology
It's a testament to how far the RTS genre has fallen that Steam's recent Tacticon festival of strategy games featured almost no RTS titles,...
The Soapbox: Raiding isn’t the problem with World of Warcraft
It is by now clear that World of Warcraft's Dragonflight expansion hasn't exactly set the world on fire. This has set off another round...
Vitae Aeternum: A love letter to all that New World does well
When you spend a lot of time in an MMORPG, it can be easy to become bogged down in all of the game's foibles....
Vitae Aeternum: Analyzing New World’s disappointing first season
It's now been a few weeks since the launch of New World's first season, Fellowship and Fire. I wanted to give it some time...
