Gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live(blog): Dune Awakening launches on PC early next year
Gamescom 2024 in Cologne, Germany, is about to begin with Geoff Keighley's Opening Night Live spectacle, a two-hour parade of trailers, advertisements, and ideally,...
Guild Wars 2 announces Janthir Wilds expansion – with player housing and raid – coming August 20
So who's up for a new Guild Wars 2 expansion? What if I told you Guild Wars 2 is about to get a real...
One Shots: Halloween leftovers
'Tis the week after Halloween, and even as we put away our decorations (or say "whatever" and keep them up until February), the lingering...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s mid-expansion endgame zone problem
Hey gang, who wants to go explore new zones in Dragonflight? Does that sound exciting to you? That's great, and for the past several...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs you feel you missed out on in 2022?
Between my job here and my job as a reviewer elsewhere, I play a lot of video games for work. I also play a...
The Daily Grind: How often do you check your playtime in MMOs?
All MMO playtimes follow the same basic arc. First, you're just curious about how much time you've played this game. Then, you're impressed at...
End-of-Year Eleven: The Biggest MMO Surprises of 2022
All right, 2022, you are officially no longer allowed to surprise us any more because we're doing the end-of-year thing now and that means...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Scarlet and Violet inches franchise closer to Monster Hunter multiplayer status
Let me start off by saying I am thoroughly enjoying Pokemon Scarlet and Violet for what they are: an open world Pokemon game with more multiplayer than Sword and...
The Daily Grind: What’s a piece of cosmetic gear you always seek out in MMOs?
It may not surprise anyone reading this that I wear glasses. I don't actually wear them most of the time because I need them,...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go players are voting against Niantic with their feet
I hate being negative. I really do. But at the same time, because Niantic continually lands major IPs to make poorly designed games (if...
Wisdom of Nym: Reactions to the first Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.3 live letter
Let me start with the most trivial question possible first: Does Naoki Yoshida have a calendar? He has to, right? Early January 2023 is...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs you hope to see falter and fail specifically?
Let's make something clear here: What we are talking about with today's topic is largely about pettiness. There are plenty of people who have...
Wisdom of Nym: The unfinished spaces left in Final Fantasy XIV
It'd really be nice to visit Ala Mhigo, but I sincerely doubt at this point that we're ever going to go there in Final...
Leaderboard: Has the gaming community ‘beaten’ NFTs?
I have to give this article in Bloomberg a lot of props for being something you don't see very often: a piece touting the...
Epic Games joins hands with beauty brand and activists to expand representation in video games
There's a new initiative being spearheaded by the beauty and skin care brand Dove called Real Virtual Beauty, which seeks to launch "a series...
Massively on the Go: Splatoon 3’s Splatfest was a rocky start
So we've finally had Splatoon 3's first real Splatfest. While the pre-launch demo gave me plenty to look forward to, it was also obvious...
Massively on the Go: Splatoon 3’s Tricolor demo makes double trouble
As Splatoon 3's release swims ever closer, I keep thinking back to the recent Splatfest demo we had. Splatfests aren't new to veterans of...
WoW Factor: Why trying to draw back former MMO raiders doesn’t work
World of Warcraft has gone harder on its raiding focus in recent years in a lot of ways, starting with Warlords of Draenor and...
Betawatch: Dual Universe is finally launching next month
I know, I know, this column is called "Betawatch" and not "Launchwatch." That one isn't a thing. But it's still notable that after six...
Wisdom of Nym: Are crossover events in Final Fantasy XIV worth it?
So let me start with an opinion that is going to inform the rest of this particular opinion piece by its very nature: I...
