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This week's Massively Overthinking topic comes to us from Steve, and it's a frustration for our team as well, I promise. "If the following statistics...

Justin and Bree discuss Final Fantasy XIV, Closers, Guild Wars 2, Trove, LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, SWTOR, Secret World Legends, and Tree of Savior, with mailbag questions on lockboxes without gambling and sunsetting working MMORPGs.

Friendships and social interaction are everything when it comes to enjoying MMOs in my mind, so you can imagine how much I adore the...

Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, “Whatever happened to that game?” With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it’s surprisingly easy...

Garbage Tier: Jim-Bob None of Jim-Bob's rants go anywhere, his grandchild pictures are severely lacking, his accent is grating, and worst of all is that...

Last week, a reader named Chris, who is writing a paper on the MMO industry and revivifying sunsetted games, dropped an intriguing question into...

Justin and Bree discuss Valentine's Day and Lunar New Year in MMOs, Guild Wars 2's latest patch, Camelot Unchained's beta date, WoW's Battle for Azeroth alpha, Closers' launch, Black Desert's unification, and Final Fantasy XIV's population, with mailbag questions on multiple accounts (spoilers: Bree talks about SWG for like three hours) and variety in period MMOs.

Long ago in classic Guild Wars, I used to be fond of buying runs - probably the earliest was the Beacon's Perch to Droknar's...

Cola: Who knows or cares. Sprite/Sierra Mist/7-UP: You want to have soda, but when someone gives you a cola of some sort you're all like,...

This week, I found myself discussing with MOP's Justin and Eliot my current disillusionment with World of Warcraft, specifically for its allied races. I'm happy...

Legacy, vanilla, classic, progression - call them what you like, but alternative server rulesets, particularly of the nostalgia-driven kind, are all the rage in...

Justin and Bree discuss MMO and MOBA sunsets, WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Alganon, DDO, Star Citizen, and Blade & Soul, plus a bit about Ultima Online and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on Guild Wars 2's classes and the state of MMO communities.

Here's something you probably didn't know about Camelot Unchained: Yes, it'll have a sub, but it won't be $15. Mark Jacobs re-confirmed that it'll be...

Last week was a flurry of excitement over World of Warcraft's Battle for Azeroth's preorders - and the news that the game will probably...

I really like abandoned places in games. One of my favorite articles ever was about Glitch, after it sunsetted, when I recapped my experience...

Congratulations, champion. You've won. Now leave. What's that? Of course you don't want to leave. You're waiting for the moment to come. You're waiting to...

Last week, we got a well-intentioned email from a reader named Rick, who proposed a column in which readers tell us what they are...

Bungie. Epic. Hi-Rez. Lots of apologies this week for one thing or another. As one of our readers, @Helltrek, put it, "It seems that the...

Justin and Bree discuss Age of Conan, FFXIV, SWTOR, Closers, EVE Online, Sea of Thieves, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, with mailbag questions on non-combat MMO options and playing MMOs with a newborn.

I've been considering this question ever since my husband and I upgraded our six-year-old's Guild Wars 2 account with Path of Fire and we...