WoW Factor: How World of Warcraft makes you cheer for removing features
Yesterday, MOP's Justin wrote a column about The Elder Scrolls Online that detailed its key virtues. It's a good column, and one of the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest you’ve ever spent working on a specific MMO goal?
The other day, I saw a tweet from Wowhead that quoted Blizzard confirming that it's meant to take a long, long time to collect...
EA wants to try in-game advertising again, but promises a ‘thoughtful’ approach this time
This year has already provided all kinds of CEO-level lunacy, so what's one more to the pile, right? This latest case of C-suite brainworm...
Tamriel Infinium: Four reasons you should stop sleeping on Elder Scrolls Online
The paradox of Elder Scrolls Online is that while it continues to be a Top 5 MMO thanks to the studio muscle and IP...
Vague Patch Notes: The problem with forever adding classes to MMOs
The second expansion for Final Fantasy XI, Chains of Promathia, launched to extremely mixed reception, and there was one overwhelming reason for that lack of...
The Daily Grind: What animal do you want to see in more MMOs?
Pangolins are the weirdest animals that sound like fantasy creatures except they're real animals in the real world. We need more of them in...
Perfect Ten: 10 favorite features that pairs of popular MMOs share
Even though all MMORPGs compete for our time, affection, and -- above all else -- money, it doesn't mean that they can't get along....
The Daily Grind: Are you optimistic or pessimistic about SWTOR’s future?
We are in an interesting season with Star Wars: The Old Republic -- and no, I'm not talking about a PvP or Galactic Conquest...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 468: Give ’em Helldivers 2
Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR's update 7.5, Daybreak's headcount, the Helldivers 2 fiasco, and freebies from Elder Scrolls Online and DDO, with adventures in SWG Legends and LOTRO, plus mailbag topics on why we haven't had a new blockbuster MMORPG in a while and whether MMOs will return to an era of experimentation.
Choose My Adventure: Elsweyr questing and dragon slaying further solidify my Elder Scrolls Online love
I appreciate that this series of Choose My Adventure columns has started to read an awful lot like I'm being paid off by The...
Second Wind: V Rising’s 1.0 build is a fangtastic revamp of the vampire survival sandbox
It doesn't seem possible that V Rising burst onto the scene almost two years ago, but here we are. I sometimes struggle to get...
Leaderboard: Are you going to buy a Nintendo Switch 2 (or whatever it’s called)?
Rumors about a follow-up device to Nintendo's massively popular Switch console have been swirling for literally years now, with the hype mounting in recent...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the most generous login rewards?
Like probably everyone else paying even a tiny bit of attention to the MMO genre right now, I spent this past weekend logging into...
Second Wind: World of Warcraft’s radically casual new endgame
Today we're going to be dusting off Second Wind, a column where we revisit MMOs of the past. It's an older column, sir, but...
Wisdom of Nym: How to prep for Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail right now
The next expansion for Final Fantasy XIV is not that far off. Sure, we're at the start of May, and it's not launching into...
The Daily Grind: What are the most underrated and underutilized weapon types in MMORPGs?
Before it came to a close this year, I did some Guild Wars 2 Super Adventure Box with my kid, and I swung by...
Global Chat: How much is Fallout 76 benefiting from Amazon’s Fallout series?
MMO blog Tales of the Aggronaut looked at the recent phenomenon of Amazon's popular Fallout series and any correlating increase in the games' populations,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best goats?
Goats are normal, serene, well-behaved animals, as you can tell from the line of games simulating their existence in complete fidelity to reality. And...
The Daily Grind: What does your ideal space sim MMO look like?
Even a quarter-century into the MMORPG revolution, we still haven't seen an interstellar MMO that really fits what I'm seeking in a space sim....
Betawatch: SMITE 2’s first alpha, Legends of Aria’s Classic beta
Good morning, SMITE 2. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to enter your first testing phase this weekend. Your continuing mission...
