Wisdom of Nym: Predicting the next Final Fantasy XIV jobs far too stupidly early
So now's a good time to start predicting the jobs we'll be getting in the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion, right? It seems like a...
EVE Online offers grief counseling for ship losses and celebrates exploration record
What's the hardest part of EVE Online for new players? It looks like CCP Games is betting that it's the sting when your first ship...
EA’s infamous ‘sense of pride and accomplishment’ post now holds a Guinness record – for Reddit downvotes
By now, we're all familiar with the 2017 comment by EA about how lootboxes provide "a sense of pride and accomplishment." The remark was...
The Daily Grind: Did you ever skip any great MMOs to play something more popular?
With WoW Classic in the news so much lately, I've been thinking back to 2004 when the original World of Warcraft launched. We've spent...
Battle Bards Episode 152: Main Themes 3
Back for a third round, the Battle Bards examine a slew of main themes from MMORPGs! Considering how essential these themes are in making...
EVE Online improves star and wormhole textures along with several UI improvements
If you're still using lower shader quality on EVE Online (perhaps you're running the game on extremely outdated hardware as a form of protest), stars...
World of Warcraft fans toast the game’s 15th anniversary
As we head into the fall and World of Warcraft's official 15th anniversary, you best believe that Blizzard is going to be milking this...
One Shots: Familiar and welcome lands
Welcome back home! That feels like the sentiment that WoW Classic gave when it launched recently. Players absolutely swarmed to these servers, many of...
City of Titans has slimmed down its costuming program, bringing it closer to a test state
Costumes in a superhero game are a big deal, something the City of Titans team is well aware of. But system resources are also a big deal,...
WRUP: My Internet was out all night so all you get are some facts about piccolos edition
Yep, my Internet was out all night when this would normally have been written. Thus, you will have to enjoy this list of facts...
The Daily Grind: How have other MMO players amused you?
I absolutely love the fact that massively multiplayer titles give me a social experience even when I'm in a room all by myself. Bumping...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained is no longer stuck on your character
Don't you hate when you're just walking along and find out you've got some other character stuck to you? No, probably not, for much...
Final Fantasy XIV teams up with Pusheen for even more cat antics than normal
We all know that Final Fantasy XIV is a game of cats. Sure, it's also a game of rabbits, lizards, and very occasionally dragons, but first...
The Soapbox: There is no MMO that can fix a broken MMO community
We've heard again and again how the recently launched World of Warcraft: Classic was going to "fix" the MMO community by stripping away modern...
WoW (Classic) Factor: The journal of Nieve Vinther – second entry
It has now been the better part of a week since my unexpected sojourn into the path, and for most of that week my...
WoW Classic opens more servers for transfer, addressing layer switching
Blizzard is continuing to open up opening up character transfers for WoW Classic to allow folks who rolled on overloaded shards to get the heck off....
The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you wish had an emulator – but doesn’t?
A few weeks back, when The Matrix 4 news hit, I spent some time digging around The Matrix Online's community so that I could...
Massively Overthinking: Do you ever feel guilty about ‘freeloading’ in a free-to-play MMO?
A few weeks back, Massively OP's Ben Griggs made an observation that I bet some readers can relate to. He mentioned that in his...
Sea of Thieves talks Pirate Legends, skeleton ships, and a new region
The Sea of Thieves forums caught on fire earlier this week, but mercifully not due to some drama, but because there was a Q&A...
Steam is running a beta for its new library system starting on September 17
The current library for your games in Steam is... fine. It's fine. It offers everything that you absolutely need in a library system. It...
