Choose My Adventure: Entering the fray in Blade & Soul
Hello, friends, and welcome to a spankin' new series of Choose My Adventure. This month, I'm going to be diving into NCSoft's wuxia-inspired Blade &...
Choose My Adventure: Brewing disaster in Shroud of the Avatar
Hello, friends, and welcome to the final (belated) installment of Choose My Adventure: Shroud of the Avatar edition. Last week, I asked y'all to...
Bebopping through ArcheAge’s Bloodsong update with Trion
Sometimes the wait for new content is made worse when you see another region enjoying it long before you can. That's how I've felt...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Shatterer Unleashed
In the last edition of Flameseeker Chronicles, I discussed the Guild Wars 2Â Winter 2016 update that releases today in great detail, so I'm really...
Hands-on with HEX: Chronicles of Entrath’s PvE
What do you know about HEX: Shards of Fate? If you've ever played it, probably more than me. But what do you know about...
Leaderboard: What’s your opinion of Blade & Soul, one week in?
On Friday, we updated our beta impressions of Blade & Soul with fresh impressions after a week of play, and the underlying theme of...
Blade & Soul impressions from around the MMO blogosphere
It's probably no surprise to anyone that Blade & Soul managed to rope in a lot of excited fans and curious casuals this past...
Launch impressions of Blade & Soul: Combat, story, questing, and flow
Every time I play Blade & Soul, I'm really playing a different game, which I dub Why Don't I Like You More? The object...
Chaos Theory: Figuring out The Secret World in 2016
Behind you, it's totally dark and the way has closed off. There's simply no going back. Up ahead, everything is in shadows. You creep...
Choose My Adventure: Exploring Shroud of the Avatar’s (not so) open wilds
Hello, friends, and welcome to the penultimate installment of Choose My Adventure: Shroud of the Avatar. Last week, in addition to giving the game's...
Choose My Adventure: In which my Shroud of the Avatar plans are foiled
Hello friends, and welcome to the next installment of the Shroud of the Avatar edition of Choose My Adventure. Last week, as I'm sure...
Choose My Adventure: Trying on the Shroud of the Avatar
Hello friends, and welcome to the new year's first installment of Choose My Adventure. As you may have noticed, I took a bit of...
First impressions of Black Desert’s closed beta test, part two: Crafting, gathering, and economy
On Friday, I took a look at the classes, combat, and tricky mechanics of upcoming sandboxy Korean-import Black Desert's first western closed beta test....
First impressions of Black Desert’s closed beta test: Classes, combat, and mechanics
Over the course of my first day in Black Desert, I did a lot of the things you'd expect from the first day in...
Hands-on: Blade & Soul’s early beta has solid mechanics, but not much else
I've had some time to think about Blade & Soul, and I'm still not sure exactly what I want to say about it. I...
Chaos Theory: Inside The Secret World’s Issue #13 before launch
It never fails. I am too weak to resist a Secret World dev tour! Even knowing that spoilers will abound, I cannot help myself...
Second impressions of Trion’s Devilian: The pros and cons
Some of you might recall that this past month, my family welcomed a new addition to its household. With a newborn around once more, I'm...
Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up my Guild Wars 2 adventure
Hello again, friends, and welcome to the fourth and final installment of the Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns edition of Choose My Adventure....
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Games and education
We've got some really smart commenters here at MassivelyOP, and I think they help keep the fiercer trolls away. But when Joystiq itself went under,...
Choose My Adventure: Rising through the ranks in Guild Wars 2
Hello, friends, and welcome yet again to another installment of Choose My Adventure. Over the course of last weekend, I've continued my journeys in...