Opinion

If you're familiar with tabletop roleplaying games, you are probably familiar with the concept of the fantasy heartbreaker. To summarize it very quickly for...

Every once in a while, it's a lot of fun to sit down and rank things in your favorite geeky franchises. A while back,...

As we talked about on the podcast this past week, in-game environments can have a huge affect on moods, depending on the person. I'm...

Tipa over at Chasing Dings recently posed an intriguing question to her friends and readers: Does crafting have any place in the modern MMO?...

We are past 15 years on now, and World of Warcraft still lacks housing. This is, frankly, really dumb. And it comes up a...

A while back my husband was playing Overwatch when he was in a match with two guys who obviously knew each other and both...

A few weeks back, I read a Twitter thread about people who avoid specific games and types of games, and the folks chiming in...

In another new twist, Pokemon Go has just released Generation 6's big feature, Mega Evolutions, before Generation 6 pokemon themselves. While we've had mega...

To this day there are few things that have bothered me as much as seeing someone refer to bears as "a big pile of...

This past weekend, I finally had a chance to actually try out Marvel's Avengers because the game was running its open beta. Certainly I'd already...

When I submitted my column on Flagship's Mythos (shameless plug!), Bree and I got into a short discussion about how we both tested the...

Justin and Bree discuss En Masse's closure, Amazon's Lost Ark, LOTRO, WoW Classic, Wurm Online, Population Zero, and Torchlight III, with adventures in SWTOR, WoW, SWG Legends, and The Sims, plus reader mail on MMO customer service and MMO talent trees.

So it’s my final week here in AdventureQuest 3D and things ended with not a bang nor a whimper so much as with a...

I realize this question doesn't apply to all MMOs: Some MMOs don't have quests at all, while in others, there's no way you're leveling...

All right, let's make something very clear right off the bat: There will be spoilers in this column. If you have managed to not...

Anyone who’s been following Crowfall over the years since its original Kickstarter has likely at one point or another felt like the game’s development...

I've been kind of obsessed with dark patterns - that is, intentionally deceptive or annoying interface design - for kind of a while now,...

Is there any MMO soundtrack that arrived with such incredible expectations and baggage as Destiny? If so, I can't recall it. We have not...

You know, I was pretty down with the long wait for Final Fantasy XIV's most recent patch, but I have nothing on Secret World...

Having perfected their musical time machine, the Battle Bards leap back to the past to enjoy the soundscapes of dinosaurs and other prehistoric denizens....