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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,...

Oh, yes, that's confirmed. The next Final Fantasy XIV expansion is entitled Nextpack, leading players to adventures in Land Mass, encountering the beast tribes First Animal...

One reason why I keep highlighting Lord of the Rings Online patch soundtracks in this space is that the studio actually makes an effort...

We may view them as horrible monsters who are standing between us and our precious loot, but have you ever considered life -- such...

In any kind of MMO, there are a lot of different challenges to endure. They do, however, tend to split a fair bit between personal...

I’ve often sat and pondered exactly what it is that I enjoy about the MMO experience. After all, being educated about your own likes...

Survival action RPG Frozen Flame announced this week that it was heading into closed beta with a single-player mode, a new event, and a special...

I've noted many times at this point that World of Warcraft does not seem to have done a great job with Shadowlands, at least from what we've...

I'm sure it was a random coincidence, but last week two different Star Wars Galaxies emulators posted about steps they were taking against cheaters...

Boars. Beets. Battlestar Galactica. OK, let's talk about one of those things, at least in a roundabout way, because there's no escaping the fact...

So, uh... hey! Final Fantasy XVI! That's a thing we learned about yesterday, huh? I'm sure we're all shocked that Naoki Yoshida's very specific dismissal of...

At one point, I was tossing an idea around for a Perfect Ten column about a Kickstarter drinking game. It didn't go anywhere, ultimately...

Last week, I taught my freshman classes basic email etiquette. In a time of distance learning, it's an important skill to teach. We looked...