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I've mentioned before that this column's title was inspired by the vague patch notes of Final Fantasy XI, and here we are diving into that...

In some ways, Jeff Kaplan leaving Blizzard after 19 years is not a stunning event, what with the ongoing process of people leaving the...

Paul Simon once said that there had to be at least 50 ways to leave your lover. Back in the day, however, there was...

This is a bit of an unusual case. I can't think of any patch in recent memory that's been so split between the quality...

So Final Fantasy XIV's latest patch literally broke the ability to visit players on other servers, which is sort of an inauspicious start when...

For ages, Phantasy Star Online 2 was in the province of games that simply didn't exist on these shores, but now last year those...

I've heard people say that the idea of "extroverts" and "introverts" isn't really all that accurate to the way that human beings actually behave,...

Playing at least one or two early access games is just kind of part of the nature of playing video games these days, especially...

Part of me has never been altogether clear on why I am so enthusiastic about seeing the fresh set of patch notes for Final...

Here are some of my mounts in Final Fantasy XIV: a sheep. A flying pig. A giant moss-covered sneezing monster. A drifting stalk of a...

I'm not going to lie to anyone here: When the World of Warcraft: Classic team first announced the idea that you could boost a...

For those of you who don't know, this column was named after Final Fantasy XI. Specifically, it was named after the practice that particular game...

We're kind of thinking about the first World of Warcraft expansion around these parts this week. No particular reason, especially in my case; I'm not...

The one down side to Square's most recent live letter was the simple reality that it didn't get to deliver on the tradition of...

So, Nintendo and Niantic will work together for more AR games based on Nintendo IPs. No great surprise from me, as I'd mentioned years...

Launch day! The date when everyone is talking about a new MMO, there's a mass of new players, overcrowding, disconnections, and all of the...

Ah, Pantheon, you're aiming high for your still-undated alpha test! That's a really good thing. It's why we're rooting for you as a scrappy...

So it looks like World of Warcraft's next patch is going up for testing on the week of April 12th. What the heck is happening? At...

The other day, I was in the middle of a humanizing anecdote when something happened that was tangentially related to MMOs. This prompted me...

This year, we have elected not to do an April Fools' joke because we found ourselves with something more pressing to do. It turns...