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Anyone who knows me also knows that I really love City of Heroes. It's a great game and for a long time it was a...

This past month has been filled with its share of dark news, not the least of which is the coronavirus that is plaguing the...

The funny thing about big Final Fantasy XIV patches these days is that because the smaller material gets a bit more spread out, we...

It's not really surprising that COVID-19 is having an impact on gaming. No, the disease is not rampaging through the world with a horribly...

You can be glib and accuse Temtem of basically being a slight variant of Pokémon, but you cannot accuse the developers of lacking ambition. Not only...

The downside to a project like this one, where I'm going through each of World of Warcraft's expansions one by one, is that it...

In episode 13 of season 9 of The Simpsons, after having spent far more time than she wants in the Movementarian cult, Marge angrily...

Every single MMO has its own unwanted and unnecessary defense force. We could run a story tomorrow about Final Fantasy XIV selling your credit card...

I've been getting back into Star Trek Online recently, which really means that I've been scratching the surface of the game again for a bit...

All right, here's the deal. Every time we get a new patch, I wind up finding that I have two of these columns' worth...

Longtime commenter and friend to man and beast alike Danny Smith mentioned recently that there's a rumor of Blizzard putting World of Warcraft allied race...

So it seems pretty likely at this point that we are going to keep going through the various World of Warcraft expansions with Classic servers...

It's very obvious why Final Fantasy XIV has items like Antidotes. These medicines are consistently present across the series, so they need to be in...

A couple years back (this being the definition where "a couple" means "I can't remember precisely how many"), I was talking with a friend...

Star Trek Online has a bit of an advantage when it comes to giving me a place to hang my hat - it's really easy...

It's a whole New World all over again! And it is actually a new New World, to be clear; it's back in alpha testing, yes, but...

The last opportunity that Blizzard had to really restore player confidence was Warcraft III: Reforged. And... Yes, that's very good, please stop laughing. I know. It's...

The old adage goes that diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. By extension, marketing is the...

We saw the end of REND. I'm sad about that. I liked REND, I thought it had neat ideas, but it had a problem wherein it...

I didn't actually plan to make this an annual feature or anything; I thought of it last year as a fun list, and then...