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You know that sinking feeling when you get into something that's way, waaaay over your head and you have no choice but to swim...

Yo dawg, we heard you like Star Citizen patches, so we applied a patch to another patch so your Star Citizen patch has another Star Citizen...

You know what we never talk about these days? China and video games! We should do that more. For example, did you know that...

All right, I guess we're doing this now. Yes, this column isn't just about how Blizzard screws up so badly that a lot of...

Earlier this month, veteran MMORPG designer Raph Koster announced that he's finally making a new MMORPG, with a suite of top devs and a...

Players of The Elder Scrolls Online were treated to the release of Dragonhold this week, the conclusion of the year-long “season of the dragon”...

There are two apparent truisms about scams in the MMO marketplace. The first is that players are quick to call anything that vaguely stinks...

Not so long ago (so, at the rate news has come out since then, what feels like decades ago) I wrote a column about...

Every MMO studio screws up sometimes. It's inevitable. And we can all think of times - sometimes very recent ones - in which a studio...

Like all other Star Wars: The Old Republic fans, I have been waiting for another expansion from BioWare for too long. Of course, the...

One of the most difficult things I've had to deal with in my time with Black Desert is sailing and boating. I've never been...

Five years ago, if you'd asked me about any mobile game, I wouldn't have even considered it a real game. I'd have considered it...

The Goblin Frontier of Torchlight Frontiers isn’t exactly boring per se so much as just… blasé, I guess is the word I want to...

Ah, another live letter, another lack of official translation despite a lot of important information being conveyed that way, and another round of people...

You know, I am regularly sitting in a waiting room for my turn to be called back to the doctor or at the lube...

A month before the whole Hong Kong Hearthstone debacle consumed the gaming industry - and blissfully unaware that this article would ultimately be held back because of it - I put my innocent money down on Blizzard for my MMO Cartographer column here on MassivelyOP. I jumped on the World of Warcraft Classic bandwagon. It was a combination of FOMO and curiosity that did me in.

Around this time of year, if you're not wearing a mask and skulking about in the darker places of online games, well then, you're...

Everyone needs time to relax. This goes double when you're logging into a video game, which at least in theory is a chance to...

Last week, composer Inon Zur took to Twitter to celebrate a big moment: "Dear Friends, Fallout 76 has been nominated for Best Original Video Game...

Let me write about the day that the Cataclysm arrived. I wasn't going home. I just happened to be in Elwynn Forest, really, visiting an old trainer and introducing him to my boyfriend at the time. We were sharing a glass of wine, he was laughing about the way that an early exercise had me toppling into the water in the freezing cold of early winter. My laughter was of the shamed sort, but still warm; it was a funny story, one told with love rather than loathing. The sky was bright.