Columns

Enjoy a run-down of our recent long-form pieces, both game-specific and more general. You might also be interested in our list of all of our columns and recurring articles. [Follow this category’s RSS feed]

Guild Chat: Starting a raiding guild in Guild Wars 2

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Welcome along to Guild Chat, the place where we gather to discuss a reader submission on whatever guild-related topic is giving him or her...
I don't really know either.

The Daily Grind: How often do you have to look up information in your main MMO?

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My wife was sitting behind me and leveling one of her alts in Final Fantasy XIV, looking for a particular enemy. "Where are these...

Jukebox Heroes: Six MMO tunes for a starry night

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I am in love with the night. No, I'm not an emo vampire or Batman (although...); I've just always appreciated the quiet and peacefulness...
See, that's the joke of the name.

The Game Archaeologist: Guild Wars Utopia

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Aztecs. Chronomancers. Mounts. Halberds. Golems. Dual wielding. These are all but a hint of what a fourth Guild Wars campaign could have been, a campaign...
Car game.

Betawatch: Everything is going into beta (April 8, 2016)

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Do you feel a cold, hollow pit in your heart that could only be filled with Auto Assault and its legacy of motorized vehicles...
I don't miss the days without blood elves, not at all.

WoW Factor: Nostalrius, copyright, and player demand

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If you haven't been following the latest Legion testing - which, at the end of the day, is just a series of iterative updates...

Chaos Theory: Is The Secret World best when binged?

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Binge watching. You know the practice when it comes to your favorite shows, but what about your favorite games? While this certainly isn't the...

Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with huge class rosters

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After talking with Mark Jacobs the other week about the difficulty of balancing Camelot Unchained's 30 classes, it got my mind thinking of MMOs...

Flameseeker Chronicles: The future of Guild Wars 2 under Mike O’Brien

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The news coming from ArenaNet has been very interesting since the company's President Mike O'Brien took over as Guild Wars 2 Game Director, so I...

Hyperspace Beacon: Three things SWTOR’s Eternal Championship needs

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Hello BioWare, It’s me again, your average Star Wars: The Old Republic fan. You remember when I complained about Chapter 10 of Knights of the...
Here we go again.

Wisdom of Nym: Where we’re heading in Final Fantasy XIV with patch 3.3 (and beyond)

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I've made no real secret of the fact that I don't particularly like Final Fantasy XIV's live letters. Leaving aside the usual issues I...

EVE Evolved: How did World War Bee start and where is it going?

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Throughout the almost nine years I've been covering EVE Online in the gaming media, I've been continually amazed at the sheer scale and impact of events that...
Darn it, Tad Williams, why.

Betawatch: You may completely believe that Otherland is back on Steam (April 1, 2016)

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Yes, we've all had fun with today's joke, but you can probably 100% believe the fact that Otherland is back on Steam after a...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG classes

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Nostalgia has me this week: I've been thinking a lot about some of my all-time favorite MMORPG characters, some of whom I can't physically play anymore...

Chaos Theory: Tomb-raiding The Secret World’s Issue #14 with Funcom

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Remember that Indiana Jones-inspired outfit from The Secret World's Issue #6? Today is a great day to dust it off and slip it on because...

Desert Nomad: Avoiding overload in Black Desert

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Hello, fellow Black Desert wanderers, and welcome back to another week’s installment of Desert Nomad. If you’ve been reading the column regularly, you may...

Hyperspace Beacon: Dear SWTOR community, keep being passionately casual

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Star Wars: The Old Republic community, I listen to your podcasts and read your sites nearly everyday, but I realized that it’s been almost eight...
BEAST

Wisdom of Nym: Affection for Final Fantasy XIV’s beast tribes

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I really like the beast tribes of Final Fantasy XIV. I'm also very happy that we don't get to play them and probably never...

The MOP Up: Easter springs upon us (March 27, 2016)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

MMO Mechanics: MMORPG expansions vs. sequels

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The recent news about EverQuest Next's cancellation has renewed the debate about whether or not MMOs should get sequels, which have given me plenty...