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On May 14th, Guild Wars 2 fans were delivered a bittersweet message from the game's main composer, Maclaine Diemer. Diemer, who had been adding...

If there is one thing that MMORPGs are able to do regularly and impressively, it is to give us a sense of massive scale....

It seems pretty clear to me now that Final Fantasy XI is going to keep running for a long time. I can't say for certain...

In the annals of the MMO genre, the massively multiplayer RTS has had perhaps the worst go of any variations on these online games....

When will the staff here stop talking about City of Heroes? Now that there's actually something to talk about regarding it, probably never. Look, you all...

Gosh, every so often you just get a big surprise like Starbase, which came out of nowhere this week to just drop onto the scene...

Recently, Massively Overthinking explored chores in sandboxes and MMOs that can feel like jobs. I may not have answered that then, but boy am...

There's a special place in my heart for lootboxes and exploitative monetization, and that place is somewhere below the revulsion I feel for Martin...

As much as there's a moment of schadenfreude in the people compiling lists specifying that no, World of Warcraft: Classic being classic is not...

Like many of you, I have been participating in the early access for Elsweyr for this last week. In fact, I played some of...

Here's an interesting fact of trivia for you for today: I am pretty much clocked out when it comes to news about H1Z1. The game...

Ah, the crown store: the third leg of the business model (along with buy-to-play and subscription) that’s powered The Elder Scrolls Online to one...

Schadenfreude, a word many of us learned from The Simpsons, is a term meaning "shameful joy" that refers to feeling good about something you...

I don't have any particular attachment to Conan the Barbarian as a franchise. I'm barely even familiar with it, in fact. But I do...

Unlike with the melee DPS, magical ranged damage actually had one of its members that changed a whole lot. Hooray! But the other two...

As soon as I started going through the abilities added to Final Fantasy XIV's healers, I immediately muttered to myself "oh, some people are...

Huh. This is a really weird contrast in this batch. Obviously, there are only two ranged DPS to cover, but in Stormblood that didn't matter...

A new expansion is on the way for Final Fantasy XIV, with early access starting up in less than a month. But what if you...

Here's a question for you: Should a game that eschewed random loot boxes at the request of players use RNG loot drops for rare...

Things have come to a head in my Star Wars: The Old Republic adventure, and it all wrapped in rather neat fashion for the...