Featured

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about burnout. This is due in no small part to the fact that I am majorly burnt out...

The advantage to having a job that takes place at home and centers around video games is the fact that it's pretty easy to...

At GDC 2011, Raph Koster gave a talk in which he said, "Games are fundamentally social media and always have been." You can watch...

For various reasons, it doesn't seen as if it's been only a week since the last Final Fantasy XIV patch. (All right, it's technically...

Ah yes, summer. Relaxing on beaches, letting shellfish pokemon bite your tail or head to cause evolution, maybe move to an England-inspired territory and...

Hello, my name is Eliot, and I'm still bitter over Star Wars: The Old Republic. This is a game I played and enjoyed at launch,...

So, remember Dreamworld, or as it's known around these parts, "that game that never sounded remotely plausible"? Well, the good news (for a very, very...

So we're not having a BlizzCon this year again. Not that one wasn't originally planned or at least in the early stages of planning,...

I had some thoughts after the most recent bit of news we got from Star Trek Online about how, you know... the game costs...

Buried amidst all of the other information in the most recent Final Fantasy XIV fan festival was the way that its boxed expansion releases were...

I'm not over this. I don't know how to be over this. Masayoshi Soken is one of the most talented composers working in this industry....

An early test phase for any MMO has one major drawback, and that's the simple fact that it's not anywhere close to being ready...

As it was foretold with the pre-loading, so it has come to pass! Swords of Legend Online has opened up its beta testing, and that's...

The launch of The Burning Crusade's pre-patch in WoW Classic has me thinking about the features that expansion brought to World of Warcraft. I know, really it...

There's no actual feud between the development teams behind World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XIV. The two teams have congratulated one another on successful expansion...

So that pre-patch for WoW Classic was kind of a mess, huh? Players wound up waiting for hours for the maintenance that was supposed to...

I have stated before that I have a complex relationship with the term "pay-to-win." On the one hand, it tends to refer to something...

I ended the first night watching the Fan Festival a bit sad about how long it would be before Final Fantasy XIV's next expansion....

Back in my day when I started playing MMOs, I took it as pretty well understood that you were going to want to join...

It's been a busy week for New World, so much so that it could probably get bullet points of its very own along the way....