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,...
The Daily Grind: What MMO would make a killer board game?
On a master list of things I never expected to see, Riot Games making a board game even loosely based upon League of Legends...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online roleplay with the Human Floyd
Those who follow my columns here know that I'm a big roleplayer, but I don't exactly roleplay in the Elder Scrolls Online. I love...
Wisdom of Nym: An uncomfortable season for Final Fantasy XIV
My original plan for this week was to dive into the newest parts of the the Palace of the Dead, but I shan't mince...
Guild Chat: Climbing the guild rank ladder in MMORPG raiding
Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, the column in which both reader and writer alike join forces to help someone in need...
One Shots: Postcards from the universe
I am not above indulging in a little universe window shopping now and then. NASA's pictures of the universe might be touched up with...
