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Last week, MMO designer Raph Koster made a Twitter comment that's stuck in my mind: https://twitter.com/raphkoster/status/682380531934322688 Hell yes it has. It's getting mainstream and indie attention left...

Over the winter holidays, we wrote about game analytics consulting firm Quantic Foundry, which has published what it calls its "Gamer Motivation Model" --...

Players are holding a vigil following the death of Final Fantasy XIV voice actress Sian Blake (the voice of Yugiri). The vigil is being...

If you've never played Final Fantasy XIV or stopped playing some time ago, you might not be aware of the fact that there's a...

We've finally left 2015 behind. And while it is perfectly natural to want to glance back in the rearview mirror over the last 12...

The first year of Massively Overpowered had its ups and downs, like anything does, but I think we had some pretty great content in...

The first Black Desert beta test has happened, and the developers are taking in feedback and making changes. What does that mean? Well... change,...

The new website for Bless Online is not hosting the final countdown. It's hosting a countdown to a countdown. The game has a new...

When a whole bunch of people start following a mysterious song to their deaths, you know that something is wrong, even in a setting...

I have a very difficult time doing group content without group finders. This may come as a surprise to readers, but I'm actually a...

Get ready for another expansion in EverQuest II on the game's time-locked expansion servers! Players voted to move the timeline along once again, and...

"Father of MMORPGs" Dr. Richard Bartle, author of the pioneering research that spawned the Bartle test, is publishing two new books about our imperiled genre. MMOs from...

Hello friends, and welcome to the new year's first installment of Choose My Adventure. As you may have noticed, I took a bit of...

In Trove, your Cornerstone is your home away from home. Also your home at home. It's your home, in other words. But just like...

Protip: Don't cheat in video games, especially always-online MMORPGs where the devs are actively seeking out cheaters and have a reputation for humiliating them...

There's still no word on exactly when the test servers for World of Warcraft: Legion will come back online following the winter break, but...

While the booing section of the internet might get loud and almost suffocating at times, I believe that there's quite the large crowd of...

WildStar's world bosses are big, ornery, and the general sort of thing that lots of players need to band together to defeat. Nothing wrong...

Are you ready for Blade & Soul's launch on January 19th? Are you really ready? I mean, you might have played a lot of...

Tragic news for Final Fantasy XIV fans this afternoon: The BBC is reporting that actress Sian Blake and her two children are believed to...