Into the Super-Verse: What kind of legs does City of Heroes have in the longer term?
So it's time to start talking about the future of City of Heroes. To be fair, I'm not talking about it from a financial...
The Daily Grind: When’s the last time you changed mains in an MMO?
In most MMOs, you have a main. In games like Final Fantasy XIV, it's your main jobs. In World of Warcraft, it's your main...
Tamriel Infinium: Ranking Elder Scrolls Online’s 10 races from worst to best
One thing that I appreciate about Elder Scrolls Online is that any race can be any class. None of that racial or gender-locking for...
Perfect Ten: MMOs where you can play as robots and cyborgs
Robots are, let's face it, very important. You might say that's not true, and to that I say: When you get to write the...
Choose My Adventure: Starting on the road to success and self-reliance in Nightingale
A lot of the first few hours of Nightingale are tutorial. That's probably not terribly surprising considering survival sandboxes need some guidance (and it's...
The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on ‘backfilling’ in instanced MMO content?
My husband and son have been playing a lot of Destiny 2 again, and a few weekends back I overheard them complaining about backfilling....
Wisdom of Nym: What people don’t really get about the Warrior of Light in Final Fantasy XIV
Not so long ago, I saw a very foolish comment complaining about Final Fantasy XIV from someone who did not play or think about...
Fight or Kite: Myth of Empires’ early gameplay is classic survival fare, but not as amazing as the trailer
A title like Myth of Empires rolls off the tongue like a turtle running down a flight of stairs: You can’t imagine how that...
The Daily Grind: So who thinks Camelot Unchained is really launching next year?
Unchained Games fka City State Entertainment is one of the rare few studios that gets a standard disclaimer in our posts, and for those...
One Shots: Slice me a chunk of that moon cheese, would ya
You have to love the absolute hubris of Jedi in Star Wars because there's no object that they don't think they can levitate, smash,...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs in which you’d like to play a roguelike mode?
Let's be clear about something: The MMO genre does not have zero overlap with the roguelike genre. I mean, the Diablo games exist in...
LOTRO Legendarium: Three key problems LOTRO can’t seem to solve
There's a special agony reserved for faithful fans of a franchise when they see said franchise make unforced errors, decline in quality, or fail...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained claims it’s finally launching late in 2025
Well, what do you know, Camelot Unchained has declared a launch window of late 2025. It's going to launch! Can you believe that? Can...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s Season of Wonder is evasive, but March scores critical hits
Pokemon Go's Sinnoh Tours and Season of Timeless Travels are both behind us, and we're left with... World of Wonders? Based on the latest announcements...
Into the Super-verse: How City of Heroes shows its flexibility with how I’ve changed
When City of Heroes waved farewell in 2012, I had an army of alts who were, at most, in their mid-30s. And I loved...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO have you kept installed the longest whether you play it or not?
A few weeks back, I asked y'all about the MMOs that have a permanent place on your device, the ones you'll never uninstall. I...
Massively Overthinking: Always-online vs. offline modes in multiplayer games
The Nightingale team's admission that players are clamoring for an offline version of the game - and that Inflexion is now planning to do...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s Sinnoh Tour turned players into guinea pigs
Both the Pokemon GO's Sinnoh Tour LA Tour and now the Global Tour have both ended, and while there are good points to be...
Vague Patch Notes: The day I deleted a character in anger in Final Fantasy XI
Today, I'd like to tell you about how your characters in MMOs aren't real, and you know that, but I want you to think...
The Daily Grind: What’s the zone you love to hate in an MMORPG?
The Rikti War Zone in City of Heroes kind of sucks. It has ambiguous routing to the point that I have spent a lot...
