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Is it fair to call Project Gorgon a spiritual successor to Asheron's Call? I'm going to go with yes, which means that this year...

So World of Warcraft patch 7.1.5 is out now... but I'm going to be honest, that doesn't feel like much of anything. It's there,...

Daybreak did it again. Boy, that phrase has come to mean a great many different things over the years. However, in this case it...

Massively OP patron Duane is kicking the new year off right: with a brawl over combat types in MMOs. "Tab-target, action, or hybrid combat, for...

If I had to guess which tabletop roleplaying game I was going to associate with Lord of the Rings Online, I really wouldn't have...

I usually like to bury my opinion behind a bit of measured fact-checking and the weight of opposing opinions, but Elder Scrolls Online hit...

This past year, we couldn't seem to go a week without bumping into news of some new mobile MMO or a tablet spin-off of...

For an avid fan of video game soundtracks, and of MMO soundtracks in particular, the most frustrating aspect of collecting and listening to these...

I spent quite a while poring over a recent gem of a video that served as a fantastically nostalgic trip down memory lane through its...

It occurred to me as I penned last week's column that I hadn't actually been talking about Final Fantasy XIV's next patch very much...

Obviously, the reverberations of the news of Landmark's closure continue to be seen across the MMO community, including in our own comments sections. The...

Over the past several years, the way in which we receive gaming news and the types of gaming media we follow has changed pretty fundamentally. Today's...

In light of this past week's sad Landmark news, it's perhaps too on-the-nose that I asked for players to send in pictures of defunct...

I have a lot of reasons for taking something an extended break from Final Fantasy XI, but one of the biggest reasons is that...

Fiction writers know well of Joseph Campbell's identification and outline of the monomyth, or "hero's journey," in many stories. The 12-step process starts with...

Have you ever had a year that you looked back on and all you could really say was, Hey, I made it through. I've...

Sometimes you have to exclude something from a list. I could, for example, praise World of Warcraft: Legion for being a really good expansion...

Here we are again. Star Wars: The Old Republic survived another year despite those who predicted five years ago that it would shut down...

The votes are in, and the next four weeks will be spent in Lord of the Rings Online! This one quite genuinely surprised me,...

Following the announcement of LOTRO and DDO's new studio and the subsequent cancellation of the Asheron's Call games, you can better believe that the...