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Playing lots of MMOs can help you understand the discourse around them... which, as often as not, is crouched deep in the language of...

Yes, it's true, Population Zero marched its way into early access this past week. It then promptly apologized for how the early access launch...

I do find a certain amount of irony in the fact that in this tour of the World of Warcraft Shadowlands class changes, Warrior...

Yesterday, I wrote a whole column about how WildStar had some really great stuff in it. I did not mention its endgame at all....

In Final Fantasy XI, all Goblin enemies have an ability called Bomb Toss. It hurts your entire party a fair amount when it hits,...

WildStar was a really neat game that was run by people who had no idea what was good about it. I'd apologize for that...

So originally, this column was going to involve a fair amount of speculation regarding some ambiguous phrasings and translations of timing for the next...

I know people in Final Fantasy XIV who have already finished getting all of their Skysteel Tools fully upgraded. This is, in and of...

So... about Chronicles of Elyria. Yes, it has laid off its entire staff and the studio founder announced that it was shuttering. But it...

It's the penultimate column in this particular series! And that's good because if people who used to make World of Warcraft are going to...

So, hey, the ESRB is taking action about lockboxes! Well, sort of. It's adding a notification about lockboxes that doesn't expressly mention or clarify...

Well, that sure was a thing, huh? Another live letter in the books, and given the circumstances it's a lot more understandable why Final Fantasy...

As free-to-play became the dominant business model in MMOs over time, it was totally understandable to wonder at first what free-to-play games would do...

So, the bad news for Star Citizen fans is that some features of its next major patch are being removed, and by "some" we...

Here we are again, and we've got a new mess of classes that got changed! Although in many ways these are the classes that...

As the alpha builds continue to mount along for World of Warcraft's next expansion, a new debate has begun that is kind of difficult...

For all that Barrens Chat in classic World of Warcraft has long been considered vile enough to break out the capital letters, it's easy...

I remember when achievements were first getting a pop in the MMO space, or at least when I first noticed it concurrent with World...

As of this writing, the Final Fantasy XIV server that has made the most progress on Ishgard restoration is Tonberry on the Elemental data...

It's the final countdown! Wait... no, I'm sorry, it's not a countdown at all. It's the actual final beta test for Shadow Arena and...