MMO Mechanics: Creating engaging crafting mechanics
I'm currently bogged down in an over-the-shoulder crafting blur, vicariously depleting gold and recommending several YouTube-approved crazy material gathering runs as I get my...
One Shots: Gentlemen, to evil!
There are some subtle signs that you can look for when you're trying to gauge if you've become truly evil. Conquering small nations for...
Jukebox Heroes: MMO tunes from the 1990s
I'll admit that I have a particular fondness for older video game music. I still scour the archives of NES and Genesis libraries for...
Betawatch: AdventureQuest 3D steamrolls toward open beta (July 15, 2016)
You know how some titles like to linger in ill-defined test phases forever? AdventureQuest 3D doesn't want to go that route. The game is...
WoW Factor: Titanforged items and content relevance
If you've missed discussion of it elsewhere (including on this here site, even), World of Warcraft is rolling out a new system for item...
Massively Overthinking: The best MMORPG trailers of all time
This week's Massively Overthinking should be a fun one -- and hopefully it'll contrast nicely with the Game Archaeologist column we ran last week, which...
EverQuesting: A guide to running EverQuest II Heritage Quests efficiently
Have you experienced EverQuest II's Heritage Quests? If not, then you haven't truly experienced EQII! While basically all MMORPGs have level grinds and dungeons,...
Perfect Ten: The most exciting MMO developments yet to come in 2016
In the annals of MMORPG history, 2016 might well go down as a very odd duck of a year. While on the surface it...
The Daily Grind: How much notice do you need before an MMORPG patch goes live?
There are some games where patches get so much advance notice that you feel like they're already here months in advance. Final Fantasy XIV's...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s mid-term report card scored by Bartle’s taxonomy
Well, BioWare, it’s half-way through the year. It’s time to look at how you’ve done with Star Wars: The Old Republic and what can...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2 Season 3 Predictions
If I've read the words "content drought" under your name in the comments section recently, you will be as delighted as I am to...
Hands-on: A tour of duty through Star Trek Online: Agents of Yesterday
With Star Trek Online: Agents of Yesterday, Cryptic is obviously looking to rope in as many Star Trek faithful as possible, particularly from two...
Wisdom of Nym: The missteps of Final Fantasy XIV’s main scenario through Heavensward
There are going to be spoilers in this column. Let's make this entirely clear. If you read this column without having finished up Final...
EVE Evolved: What went wrong with the Shadow of the Serpent event?
Last week's EVE Online patch added the massive Shadow of the Serpent event, a game-wide storyline arc that pits players against the Serpentis and Angel...
One Shots: Totes adorbs
My call out for favorite fantasy races a while back did spur a few of you to share screenshots depicting your beloved species. Kristina...
The Daily Grind: What inspires you to ignore another player in an MMO?
For a variety of reasons, I do not have the ability to remove people from the universe at a whim. I cannot simply make...
The Game Archaeologist: Eight launch trailers from classic MMOs
When YouTube first became a thing, I dismissed it as a site that was mostly preoccupied with people talking into cameras in an attempt...
Betawatch: World of Warcraft and the art of pre-patch trolling (July 7, 2016)
We have a launch date for World of Warcraft's next expansion, but we don't have a date for the pre-patch before the expansion launches....
Perfect Ten: The 10 components of a ‘fair’ MMO PvP fight
I spend a lot of my time thinking about MMO PvP. You might not realize it, but I'm actually a really big fan of...
Chaos Theory: Loot bags and golems galore for The Secret World’s fourth birthday
There may have been moments over the past 12 months when fans feared this time would never come, but it has: Happy fourth birthday, The Secret World!
It's...
