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This week, I was planning a third entry on my adventures in Black Desert Mobile, but a few very exasperating incidents happened to me...

Yesterday, aside from love being such an easy game to play, MOP's Justin graced us with a Daily Grind asking about why it was RIFT...

There are two basic approaches that strike me when it comes to free-to-play monetization, as I see it. The first is a sense of...

While some players like to rebel against the notion that MMORPGs are storytelling experiencies, that narrative is exactly why I show up to these...

Roger over at Contains Moderate Peril recently ducked into the upcoming DLC for Lord of the Rings Online to see what it contained and...

I don't want to spoil Final Fantasy XIV's most recent patch here before the cut, but it is not exactly a spoiler to say that...

In my last Not So Massively column, I looked at the right and wrong ways for other genres to steal from MMOs. But in...

Piggy-backing on our column on World of Warcraft's lack of housing, MMO blog GamingSF argued that the game actually has a lot of the...

Utakata's shot of a "quiet earth" in Blade and Soul here is not from the starting area (I'm assuming!), but it definitely makes me...

The complete non-starter of Pathfinder Online did not surprise me. It was about what I expected, and it always struck me as one of those...

So here's an impossible task that lies before me right now: picking one musical genre that defines Granado Espada's score. I can't. It simply...

When you think of post-apocalyptic video games, what comes to mind? Most likely it's a crawl through a bombed-out or zombiefied landscape as you...

Ah, Crucible, you entered our lives so quickly and then exited equally quickly... but only back to beta. You might think this is unnecessary...

For the first time in the past three expansions, I am not in the beta for World of Warcraft's next expansion. This is fine. It's...

I swear, so many of the posts I bookmark on Reddit to muse on later wind up deleted, and today I've got another one,...

We need to talk about Star Citizen, folks. But maybe not in the way you might be thinking. Not about the game's development, which is...

Leadership in a guild has never been something I have sought. It has happened more than once, but literally every single time it was mostly...

Hating your recreation is an oddly common hobby for a lot of people. It's not universal, of course, but after any given new game...

Wurm Online has made me feel the most noobish I've ever felt in an MMORPG in ages even after the tutorial. A tutorial that, by the way, I did indeed do; it's literally impossible not to do the tutorial. I couldn't get in to a different island until I got through the tutorial. The tutorial was done.

Another week, another battle royale arrives at my doorstep, this time with a subtle but sweet note attached: Please kind sir, take it in,...