The Game Archaeologist: Rubies of Eventide
I can't say that Rubies of Eventide has been on my radar, like, ever. And yet practically every time I've asked for suggestions of...
One Shots: Avenging angel
When you push a player too far, commit too many crimes, and flaunt your evil with one of those tacky pre-battle speeches, you're going...
The Daily Grind: What MMO April Fools’ Day joke makes you sad it’s just a joke?
It's not really difficult to tell when an announcement is an April Fools' Day joke; they're usually pretty obvious. Final Fantasy XIV's announcement of...
Perfect Ten: More terminology the MMORPG genre needs
Many moons ago (so, a few months), I wrote a column about terminology that we need for the MMO genre. This made our Editor-in-Chief...
EverQuesting: Digging into EverQuest’s 18th birthday and chatting with Daybreak
Holy smokes! EverQuest is old enough to vote! The world of Norrath just turned 18 years old on March 16th. In the US, that...
Choose My Adventure: Gearing up for Black Desert
I’m going to be honest with you, folks; the last Choose My Adventure installment left me feeling kind of depressed. It’s a shame to...
The Daily Grind: Are you excited about Secret World Legends?
I quite like the setting behind The Secret World, and the game had some very neat ideas about progression and character builds. For my...
Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #12-7
It's starting to get serious now.
As we well know, people are highly opinionated about everything, but when it comes to music, there seems to...
Hyperspace Beacon: Star Wars The Old Republic will finally allow us to switch factions
Long-time players of Star Wars: The Old Republic: In the next update 5.2: The War for Iokath, you will finally be able to switch...
Funcom reboots The Secret World as Secret World Legends, a ‘shared-world action RPG’
Raise your hand if you felt trepidation as well as hope when Funcom announced during that last investor call that it was relaunching The...
The Game Archaeologist: How DikuMUD shaped modern MMOs
Even though there are hundreds and thousands of MMOs spanning several decades, only a small handful were so incredibly influential that they changed the...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on the healer skills Final Fantasy XIV could delete
Tomorrow, we're getting the end of the Heavensward story quests in Final Fantasy XIV, which means I need to start looking at Heavensward as...
Guild Chat: Tips for meeting guildmates in real life
Welcome along to Guild Chat, my column in which I join forces with commenters to help a reader in need with a guild-related concern....
One Shots: I took a picture THIS big!
When you take the best screenshot in the world and want to impress your friends, do you find that you end up exaggerating a...
Betawatch: Pathfinder Online isn’t dead yet (March 24, 2017)
You could be forgiven for kind of thinking that Pathfinder Online was dead in the water, but it turns out that there's still hope....
WoW Factor: The good and the bad of World of Warcraft’s patch 7.2 date
Boy, this is a time I am glad to be wrong. I was outright worried that Blizzard was going to hold patch 7.2 for...
The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to multiplayer survival sandboxes
Welcome to The Survivalist! Ya'll might have noticed that I have gravitated a bit from my happy home of deep, immersive virtual worlds (possible...
Perfect Ten: Memories of an Anarchy Online noob
My initial foray into MMORPGs was, to put it nicely, quite ungraceful. I wasn't even aware that they were a thing until about the...
The Daily Grind: How do you balance MMO playtime with single-player playtime?
Much of my time during a given week is devoted to playing MMOs. That probably makes sense, considering that understanding these games and writing...
Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #18-13
Last week we were off to a great start as we listened to the first batch of player-voted favorite MMO themes. As I said...
