SGF 2024: Hands-on with NCsoft’s long-awaited Throne and Liberty, launching September 17
Most of the games I played at Summer Game Fest were more enjoyable than I expected - including Throne and Liberty, which was probably...
Choose My Adventure: Flying, dogfighting, and struggling with hardware in Star Citizen
Well, talk about a massive disappointment. After a bunch of attempts, tweaks, and some general stubbornness, I'm pretty much going to have to concede...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO saw its hype die shockingly quickly?
We get some weird PR in our inbox, but the other day a grown-ass man being paid four times what I make woke up...
Second Wind: Final thoughts on returning to World of Warcraft in 2024, from community to dragonriding
At long last, we've reached the fourth and final part of my series detailing my experiences returing to World of Warcraft after six years...
Wisdom of Nym: Musings on Final Fantasy XIV’s last live letter before Dawntrail
If you couldn't watch the live letter because you were too anxious, well, I don't know how you live your life, but also I...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a plan for what happens to your MMO accounts when you die?
Ars Technica penned a piece a few weeks back about the legal quagmire awaiting people who hope to legally pass their Steam accounts on...
Massively on the Go: Splatoon 3’s Big Big Run highlights the big problem with its PvE
As I shamelessly teased in the WRUP last week, I managed to make some time for Splatoon 3's new Salmon Run event, the Big...
One Shots: When the cuteness dug too deep
In this past week's adventures, Utakata claimed to have plumbed the great depths and mysteries of Khazad-dûm... with a mouse-person. I don't remember that...
The Daily Grind: What brings you back to MMORPGs you stepped away from?
I don't tend to go back to games that I left all that often, but that's less a function of being unwilling and more...
LOTRO Legendarium: What will happen when Lord of the Rings Online dies?
You know that old hypothetical of "Would you want to know when you die or would you rather be ignorant of it?" A slightly...
Massively Overthinking: The New World Aeternum debacle
You know that feeling when you can see a trainwreck coming, but you know you can't do anything to stop it or even warn...
Vague Patch Notes: Housing is really back in MMORPGs
I haven't really had anything to say about Guild Wars 2's upcoming Janthir Wilds expansion thus far because... well, I'm not our GW2 columnist,...
The Daily Grind: Are MMOs suffering from the ‘tyranny of IP’?
Back in May, a Sony Pictures executive did a one hell of an interview on Deadline that, among other things, complained about the "tyranny...
Fight or Kite: 33 Immortals continues the trend of pseudo-MMO gaming
Even given the general pullback in the games industry from using the term MMO, I sure am noticing a bunch of other games that...
Perfect Ten: MMOs where you travel back in time for some reason
We're all time travelers! We travel to the future at the rate of one second per second. Every single machine you will ever operate...
Global Chat: So many questions about Guild Wars 2’s housing
With the news that Guild Wars 2 is adding homesteads in its next expansion, Nerdy Bookahs is not alone in asking a whole ton...
SGF 2024: Hands-on with New World’s controversial Aeternum reboot, which is still an MMORPG
How's everyone recovering from all this New World Aeternum news coming out of Summer Games Fest? It's been kind of a confusing time for me, as...
The Daily Grind: Can you give (another) example of MMO developers failing to read the room?
These days, New World is kind of the whipping boy of the week when it comes to tone-deaf attempts at managing its community. It's...
WoW Factor: The streak The War Within needs to break for World of Warcraft
On November 13th, 2008, World of Warcraft's second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, was released to an eager population. The prior expansion, The...
SGF 2024: Path of Exile 2 is fun and satisfying, but it’s still no cakewalk
MJ is MOP's resident Path of Exile person, and I'm sure she'll get the core-fans some red meat once she gets her hands on...
