Columns

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Global Chat: Your complete LOTRO wedding guide

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Is your mind whirling with all of the things to do with Lord of the Rings Online's new Midsummer Festival and the associated wedding...
Fracking! Yes? No.

Betawatch: Fractured and Magic: Legends do the closed alpha dance

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You can test if you want to if you've gotten an invite. Yes, Fractured kicked off its most recent closed alpha after a delay,...

LOTRO Legendarium: What we have here is a failure to communicate

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If this year has taught us anything, it's that clear and boosted communication is vital to handling a crisis. Having information and a message...
Let the dead bury their dead, they will come out in droves.

Massively Overthinking: Contemplating the never-ending summer of not-E3

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A couple of weeks back, I was reading a piece on RPS that jokingly lamented the way the game reveals of this summer have...

Desert Oasis: Black Desert’s outlook in the lead-up to Crimson Desert

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I've played nothing but the Black Desert season servers in the last month. It's such a fresh breath of air, and it's something I...
Sky sky sky

Vague Patch Notes: No Man’s Sky is the real reboot success story

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Whenever an MMO of any type has a launch that resembles the Nedelin catastrophe, people start talking about what the studio should do to...
The stuff that you have, does someone have a claim on it?

The Daily Grind: Would you ever consider multiboxing in an MMO?

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If you've ever read Bannable Offenses, a Final Fantasy XI comedy blog, you may remember when the blog's supposed writer took control of the...

Perfect Ten: Ten reasons Fallout 76 is good, actually

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Here's the thing about criticism: It isn't mutually exclusive with appreciation. You can like something that you also criticize -- and your head won't...

Choose My Adventure: Accidentally going to Hell and other Dungeons and Dragons Online misadventures

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I’m only level 3 and already Dungeons and Dragons Online has elected to whup my ass. By the barest margin, the polls said to pick...
Sure. That sounds right.

Not So Massively: Online ARPGs are the pizza of gaming

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I spend a lot of time thinking about online ARPGs these days. It's always been a genre I've enjoyed, and since taking over the...
Cars!

Wisdom of Nym: What content in Final Fantasy XIV is optional?

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So here's an interesting question with an answer that continually shifts: What content is optional in Final Fantasy XIV? If you're a big fan of...

Warframe of Mind: A history of TennoCon reveals, from The War Within to Heart of Deimos

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I don't know about you, but there was a certain sadness hanging in the air on July 11th as I sat home instead of...
Front lines.

Global Chat: What gets us grumpy in MMOs

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Whoever said "always look on the bright side of life" obviously never talked to gamers, because we are a notorious bunch for looking at...

One Shots: Private retreats

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Where do you go to get away from it all in an MMORPG? If you look hard enough, you might find a special private...
Different. Yet the same.

The Daily Grind: What’s the worst way to balance things in an MMO?

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When I wrote my recent piece about Cosmic Break Universal, I found through a bit of digging into fan coverage that the game had...
How near, how far.

Into the Super-verse: Seven tips for designing amazing MMO superhero costumes

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While we all know that the real endgame in any MMORPG is fashion, superhero titles take this much further than the rest of the...
Soff

Betawatch: Magic Legends begins invites for its second closed alpha

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I bet you thought Betawatch this week was going to be all about World of Warcraft's Shadowlands beta, which did indeed begin and we've already...
I'm going to master letting this play instead of me.

The Soapbox: Where does WoW need to go beyond Shadowlands?

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This expansion hype cycle, I've heard more about how to customize your character and less about raids than any other WoW expansion in recent memory, and I can't see that as anything other than good.

Massively Overthinking: Has the pandemic changed your gaming habits?

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There was a popular Medium piece floating around last week about how some people are finding refuge in gaming during the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic....
It tracks.

Vague Patch Notes: New World delays to add the game into the game

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All right. Someone has to ask it, and it doesn't need to be me but it's still going to be me because I feel...

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