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I love a good cozy place in an MMO, moreso if it's got a fully stocked snack bar and some of my all-time favorite...

Watching Star Citizen development can feel a bit like watching Zeno's MMO development at times, but joking aside, reaching update 3.7.0 is a milestone of...

The night after my last entry, Ceilidh took me out to the shores of Loch Modan. It wasn't for an occasion or anything; we...

Infomercials are the worst. There's nothing quite as infuriating as turning on the TV only to find a 30-minute commercial about how people can't...

So... this was honestly not the story that I had expected to have wound up coming out of Eternal Magic. I'd been expecting that "beauty...

What kind of hero are you going to be today? In most MMOs, that question and its possible answers are watered down and homogenized, but...

Battle royale games are both the newest flash-in-the-pan and one of the oldest genres out there; it's not exactly a new idea to put...

When studios go about making MMORPGs, risk comes along with the effect as a matter of course. The only question is how to reduce...

Sometimes, you’ve just got to run around and blow up hordes of enemies with big flashy skills and hoover in the goodies. You have...

I’ve noticed a common complaint bouncing around the Guild Wars 2 community, one that I believe to be a myth. Today, I’d like to...

So how, exactly, are we making this thing this time? That's what I want to know. It's not exactly a secret that Final Fantasy XIV's initial...

Since taking up the mantle of the Not So Massively column here on MOP, I've felt the need to keep better abreast of major...

While you're over there playing the same-old, same-old MMO, do you know who is having a spectacular time discovering one of the most original...

Last week's screenshot challenge to share pictures of older MMOs that still check out (visually, I mean) resulted in a small avalanche of Lord...

PvP is about more than just getting into the dirt with your opponent and seeing who drops first. Sure, it frequently is exactly that, and...

While we have known for a long while that this was coming, the official announcement of Lord of the Rings Online's 2019 expansion was...

What? Yes, we know that Ashes of Creation: Apocalypse was never cancelled, but it was a perfect chance to make a Pacific Rim reference. Besides,...

Last week, we saw Blizzard explain its philosophy behind why some World of Warcraft bugs in which players got to get more stuff than...

A couple of weeks ago, MMO developer Mark Kern tweeted a controversial claim about how challenge and interactivity is the point of games (and...

Of all the Desert Oasis articles I've written so far, by far the most fun I had was doing a guide for two of...