Opinion

Here's the thing about criticism: It isn't mutually exclusive with appreciation. You can like something that you also criticize -- and your head won't...

This past week, many Lord of the Rings Online players impatiently nibbled on lembas bread and took to Reddit as several of the North...

Justin and Bree discuss Funcom, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Nexon, No Man's Sky, and Skull and Bones, with adventures in LOTRO, Hearthstone, and WoW, plus mailbag topics on fidelity to artistic vision and phasing vs. immersion.

I’m only level 3 and already Dungeons and Dragons Online has elected to whup my ass. By the barest margin, the polls said to pick...

I spend a lot of time thinking about online ARPGs these days. It's always been a genre I've enjoyed, and since taking over the...

It turns out to have been a bad week to start subbing to Lord of the Rings Online. As we've been covering, LOTRO is now...

On MOP, we don't do formal reviews; we've spent the last 10 years arguing that MMORPGs change so dramatically from year to year that...

So here's an interesting question with an answer that continually shifts: What content is optional in Final Fantasy XIV? If you're a big fan of...

I hate "oh shit" buttons! Justin and I were joking about this on a podcast a while back, but I mean it quite seriously. I...

Whoever said "always look on the bright side of life" obviously never talked to gamers, because we are a notorious bunch for looking at...

When I wrote my recent piece about Cosmic Break Universal, I found through a bit of digging into fan coverage that the game had...

While we all know that the real endgame in any MMORPG is fashion, superhero titles take this much further than the rest of the...

Poor summer, it just can't get a break, even in a non-pandemic year. Sure, it's full of vacations and sunny days, but it got...

This expansion hype cycle, I've heard more about how to customize your character and less about raids than any other WoW expansion in recent memory, and I can't see that as anything other than good.

The title for today's Daily Grind isn't exactly what you think it is, so consider this a trick to see who read the whole...

There was a popular Medium piece floating around last week about how some people are finding refuge in gaming during the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic....

All right. Someone has to ask it, and it doesn't need to be me but it's still going to be me because I feel...

I read the news today, oh boy. Tencent has bought out all of Funcom's stuff. This is pretty significant; it's yet another thing being...

Seeking a simpler and more quaint life? Then come on down to the farm with the Battle Bards, as the video game music crew...

RuneScape is one of those games that always seems to fly under my radar. It's not intentional, and I don't have anything especially against...