Tamriel Infinium: The 18 words an Elder Scrolls Online newbie needs to know
One of my favorite things about the storytelling in Elder Scrolls Online is that the quest-givers don't fill their dialogue with exposition regarding Tamriel...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s big finale
Let me warn you upfront:Â If you have not yet finished the last major story patch of Final Fantasy XIV and you want to make...
EVE Evolved: How many subscriptions does EVE have?
Two weeks ago, a mathemagician over at The Nosy Gamer published some interesting calculations showing that EVE Online's subscriptions may have dropped by around...
LOTRO Legendarium: Why LOTRO needs a progression server
At some point this year -- Turbine isn't saying when, yet -- Lord of the Rings Online will be making an effort to consolidate...
Betawatch: April 17th, 2015
Path of Exile has another big update on the way! It has fun new skills like Golems, Warcries, and Golemcries! Maybe not so much...
Infinite Crisis has basically made me a MOBA fan
It's 1989. My buddy and I are in a comic store and raising our eyebrows at this odd little one-shot called Gotham by Gaslight....
WoW Factor: The WoW token and the upcoming patch
Since the last edition of WoW Factor, two big things hit World of Warcraft in quick succession. The first is that the much-discussed WoW...
Chaos Theory: Six more tips for new Secret World players
You didn't seriously think that six tips could come close to encapsulating the knowledge needed to start in The Secret World, did you? Of...
Perfect Ten: Important features MMOs lacked at launch
Every MMO represents a journey, starting with an idea, progressing to a fledgling beta, launching as a production title, and growing thereafter. All of the...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Exclusive Guild Wars 2 Maguuma Hylek interview
I had the pleasure of chatting with Scott McGough, a Guild Wars 2 narrative designer who is currently working hard on Heart of Thorns content, about...
Jukebox Heroes: The Crew’s soundtrack
Sometimes the best soundtracks are hiding where you least expect them.
Though perhaps I shouldn't be that surprised that The Crew has an impressive score....
Hyperspace Beacon: Five things you should know about Ziost before SWTOR Update 3.2
Shortly after Star Wars: The Old Republic launched, I was a part of a group of players asked which planet they would like to see...
Sword and Bored: Encumbrance
Mo discovers that cognitive dissonance is required to make sense of MMO encumbrance systems.
Wisdom of Nym: What we now know about Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward
I honestly hadn't expected to learn quite this much about Heavensward this soon. I don't know why I hadn't expected this, to be fair;...
MMO Mechanics: How strong communities are barriers-to-exit
MMOs occupy a unique position in our game libraries because they include a wide range of clever mechanics that keep us logging in day...
The Game Archaeologist: Roleplaying dreams in Underlight
After years of digging into the field of classic MMOs, I know there aren't too many undiscovered titles that haven't been brought to my attention...
WRUP: Hourly content update edition
Over the past few years, we've seen developers fall more and more in love with the idea of making faster and smaller updates to...
The Soapbox: The trap of the I-win button
This guest Soapbox was commissioned through Massively Overpowered's Kickstarter campaign and is authored by a longtime reader named Syndar. The opinions here represent the views of...
Lost Continent: Looking ahead to ArcheAge’s Dread Prophecies patch
Did you miss the latest ArcheAge livestream featuring the Trion dev team? It was a biggun, and it contained quite a lot of information relative to the...
Massively Overthinking: The death of the MMO guild
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter donor JakeDunnegan, who is worried about the future of MMORPG guilds.
When EverQuest came along, I was...
