One Shots: A home away from home
If you were to move into an MMO for real, where would you live? I posed this question last week to the One Shots...
The Game Archaeologist: Mark Jacobs on Mythic’s early online games, part 2
We're back with our second part of an interview retrospective of Mythic Entertainment's early online games with CSE's Mark Jacobs. Last week, we talked...
Betawatch: Cloud Pirates is ready for the next round of testing (November 18, 2016)
Are you ready to steal a whole lot of clouds in Cloud Pirates? (If that's not the fictional background, please don't tell me, I...
Jukebox Heroes: Six pretty great MMO tunes from games you’ve never played
In my years of coverage of MMO soundtrack music in this column and on Battle Bards, I've clearly observed that there are games that...
Massively Overthinking: The many ‘NGE’ moments across MMORPG history
Eleven years ago this week, the New Game Enhancements patch descended on Star Wars Galaxies, forever changing the trajectory of the game, SOE, and...
Chaos Theory: The disappointment of The Secret World’s Samhain
The season to end all seasons has come and gone. The Secret World's Samhain has faded back into the fog, and it will be another...
Perfect Ten: Messed-up aspects of MMORPGs we mindlessly accept
When we engage in the collective fantasy of playing MMORPGs, we accept certain structures and tropes that have been in place since the early...
Choose My Adventure: Don’t call it a comeback
Hello, dear readers. Would you like to tell me what to do for a while?
Choose My Adventure has been absent from the site for...
Hyperspace Beacon: Five class changes to watch out for in SWTOR 5.0
Even if you are not subscribing for the impending Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion, Knights of the Eternal Throne, you will be subject to...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Five reasons to buy Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns while it’s on sale
Ever since Guild Wars 2's first expansion released, retired players or MMO hoppers have been insisting in comments across the internet that they would only...
Wisdom of Nym: At the end of the world for Final Fantasy XIV
It's kind of weird to think about the fact that we just passed the four-year anniversary of the end of an era in Final...
EVE Evolved: Three essential tips for new alpha clone players
EVE Online's Ascension expansion goes live in just two days on Tuesday November 15th, introducing the new free-to-play alpha clone state and completely overhauling...
One Shots: A lovely holiday
If you were a dragon, what kind of dragon would you be? Perhaps you'd go traditional, with the whole "giant world-devourer" aspect. Maybe you'd...
The Daily Grind: What MMO do you see yourself playing in half a year?
The future is an undiscovered country. We can make guesses and predictions, but we never know just how things are going to shake out....
The Game Archaeologist: Mark Jacobs on Mythic’s early online games, part 1
When you bring up the name "Mythic Entertainment," chances are that most gamers are going to immediately think of the studio's two major MMOs,...
Betawatch: Hero’s Song enters early access (November 11, 2016)
The crowdfunding campaigns for Hero's Song might have run short of their goals, but that didn't stop the game from reaching a state of...
Working As Intended: Westworld is a sandbox MMORPG on your TV
Westworld has emerged this fall as the geek obsession TV show, a gunslinger's LOST about which people can't stop talking and theorizing and debating....
Massively Overthinking: Nickel-and-diming in MMORPGs
Massively OP reader and listener Suikoden79 recently wrote in to the podcast with a gem of a question I thought would be more fun...
EverQuesting: A dozen years of EverQuest II
Who doesn't like a dozen? A dozen donuts. A dozen cupcakes. A dozen pizzas. (What, that's not a thing? That should totally be a...
Perfect Ten: The worst patch naming in MMORPGs
Patches should, in all honesty, be the easiest thing in the world for online games to handle. You have a word that means patch,...
