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To my knowledge, this past week's Update 27.2 for Lord of the Rings Online may well be the biggest housing patch that's hit the...

Quantic Foundry's Nick Yee gave a lecture at GDC Summer 2020 yesterday showing how the analytics firm's massive amount of data can be used...

The introduction of Black Desert's season servers this summer was my chocolate-in-peanut-butter moment of the year. I didn't know the combination would be so...

Let's face it: Sometimes, playing MMORPGs -- as with any video game -- has the potential to stress us out. We might feel under...

Let's see... I was flung across the world, I fought an extremely hyperactive unicorn bro, I nearly got defeated by chickens, and I fought...

Last week, StarCraft II celebrated its tenth anniversary by launching the major 5.0 patch. With it came the new "prestige" system for co-op mode,...

When summer comes, some lucky folks get to take the season off. Even those who continue on their regular labors often head out on...

Let's start with an assertion that some people may or may not believe but is still true no matter what: Dungeons in Final Fantasy...

It's been a long, strange, and wonderful journey to explore MMORPG music with you here in Jukebox Heroes. And while I am anticipating many...

When I asked for pictures of plant houses in online games, I wasn't quite expecting that notion to sprout and grow into this tremendous...

Whenever the topic -- the argument -- of Star Wars MMOs arises, the debate is usually between the merits of the sandboxy Star Wars...

So Star Citizen fans were more than a little miffed that the news on Squadron 42 had slowed from "a crawl" to "did that...

Wonder rant powers, activate! It's been a long while since I have been pushed to the point of activating rant mode. I can be chill...

Am I the only one who feels like there's actually been a bit less news about Shadowlands ever since it opened up beta testing?...

The old Ramsgate is dead and gone. Destroyed by some sort of cataclysmic event, and with only the mysterious orb from the Umbral Deeps...

Back when I ran youth groups, one question that I liked to kick off our meetings with was to ask the teens what was...

We all love multiplayer, persistent world online games, don’t we? Players stay for the familiarity, nostalgia, and potential for years of enjoyment. Studios love...

Here's a not-actually-very-secret bit of honesty about the industry that I have been working in for about a decade now: I am not actually...

Just two short months ago, Guild Wars 2 introduced us to the Drizzlewood Coast, flashpoint of the civil war between the Charr United Legions...

Week after week in this round of Choose My Adventure, I've been finding little things to love about Dungeons and Dragons Online and this...