Desert Nomad: Quality of life in the Black Desert
Hello friends, and welcome back to Desert Nomad. After last week’s in-depth look at Black Desert’s cash shop, I decided that this week I would...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2 Gorseval raid boss guide
More than one reader has asked for further Guild Wars 2Â raid guides, and who am I to disappoint? I've been keeping back this Gorseval...
Hyperspace Beacon: The importance of pacing in a SWTOR roleplay event
Last time I talked about roleplaying in spite of game mechanics, I didn’t really get a whole lot of comments. I don’t know whether...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s silent design plans
I do not envy the team behind Final Fantasy XIV in some respects. In many ways, the game is the poster child for developing...
EVE Evolved: Why you should participate in EVE’s Project Discovery
Back at EVE Vegas 2015, CCP Games unveiled an ambitious project that aimed to involve EVE Online players in some really exciting scientific research that could...
One Shots: Impish greetings
First contact with native tribes and species in MMOs hardly ever goes the diplomatic route; usually there's a lot of stabbing, fire-setting, plundering, and...
Perfect Ten: Why MMORPG studios don’t just reboot their games
Last Friday's WildStar news made me sad. I'm sad because there are two games at war within that title. One of them is a...
EverQuesting: Let EverQuest Next live on in Landmark
Well, then. When it rains, it pours.
After a lengthy drought of EverQuest Next and Landmark news, we finally got some. And not just a...
Desert Nomad: Diving deep into Black Desert’s cash shop
Hello, friends, and welcome back to Desert Nomad. This week, I'd like to take the opportunity to talk about a subject that has been...
Hyperspace Beacon: Should you resub for SWTOR: Disavowed?
Hello, friends. I hope you don’t mind my calling you that. I do respect my readers. Thankfully, most of you are rational and thoughtful....
Wisdom of Nym: Materia melding on tome gear in Final Fantasy XIV
One of the big additions with Final Fantasy XIV's patch 3.2 was tomestone gear with materia melding slots. This is something very new for...
Working As Intended: The fate of the MMORPG genre
I don't think I'm exaggerating to say that this past weekend was a strange one in the MMORPG community, when gamers across the wide expanse...
Guild Chat: How to tactfully leave a guild
Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, my little corner of Massively Overpowered in which I tackle readers' guild-related problems with the help...
The Game Archaeologist: The sad saga of Stargate Worlds
In 1994, a science-fiction movie called Stargate took the idea of alien portals that allowed people to travel instantaneously across the universe and turned it...
Betawatch: EverQuest Next is gone, Landmark is launching (March 11, 2016)
We cannot wave farewell to EverQuest Next in this column because it's never actually been in testing. We will be able to wave farewell...
Perfect Ten: What your MMO racial pick says about you
In real life, we can't (usually) pick our race; we kind of get assigned one at birth, thanks to our parents, and we go...
WoW Factor: Levels and legends in the Legion alpha
The alpha testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion rolls on, with the vague hope that we might actually have a beta tag by...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s Thieves Guild DLC is that ex you keep coming back to
Dang it, Elder Scrolls Online, just when I’m about to give up on you again, you pull me back in.
I really didn’t mind your...
Desert Nomad: How to win friends and influence NPCs in Black Desert
Welcome back, fellow Desert Nomads. I don't know about y'all, but since last week's column (and the official launch of Black Desert), I've spent...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Slothasor and the Guild Wars 2 AMA breakdown
It's been a bit of a whirlwind week for ArenaNet, especially with a jam-packed Reddit AMA that contained the announcement that Colin Johanson has...
