Opinion

When RIFT first came out, I had very low hopes for it. The game already was launching into a crowded field, and it was...

A No Man's Sky griefer purporting to roleplay an evil emperor, monologuing and all, decided to up his griefer game by taking it out of game and...

It's a pity that World of Warcraft hasn't really updated its character creation in a long time, because the game direly needs it. The...

OK, I'll come right out and say it: I love the Rishi stronghold. The Star Wars: The Old Republic developers have outdone themselves. I...

Continuing from my previous column that went back to 1997, I'm going to be running through the second decade of graphical MMORPG launches and...

Not every MMO has flying, and those that do tend to add it post-launch as a major selling point for an expansion or patch....

Justin and Bree discuss the Guild Wars 2 debacle, Trove, The Sims 3, Camelot Unchained, Warframe, Shroud of the Avatar, Temtem, Final Fantasy XIV, Defiance 2050, and Trion's Marvel Heroes promo, plus a mailbag entry on looter shooters as the future of MMORPGs.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll have noticed that two Guild Wars 2 developers were cut loose last week after a heated Twitter...

Over the weekend, I was reading a makeup subreddit (don't judge me - I swear there is a gaming point to this) and the...

Heaven-on-High is not quite the same as the Palace of the Dead. That is not surprising; they're different places with different lore and slightly...

According to Friday's Daily Grind on hype cycles, a lot of folks think they begin way too early for most games. But what about...

Throughout most of EVE Online's lifetime, players have developed their own third-party applications (and yes, spreadsheets) to help organise and enhance their gameplay. We've...

As an MMO music collector, I've gathered some really obscure soundtracks over the years, including ones from games that people don't even remember existing,...

Let's be real here, I am a sucker for Halloween. It's my favorite holiday, so you would think I was over the moon about...

Let us travel back to 2009, when Lord of the Rings Online released its second expansion pack, Siege of Mirkwood. This pint-sized expansion seemed...

There seems to be a bizarre competition going on between MMORPG developers to one-up each other's games with progressively impractical mounts. I guess when...

Today is Pokemon Go's second-year anniversary. Last year's report card had to grapple with things like the game's rapid rise and fall as a fad,...

Here's the weird part about this week's column: I'm going to tell you, in short, that Final Fantasy XI is still a good game...

GIbiz put out an interesting piece this week looking 10 years into the past to see where the buzz was in the game industry...

Survival -- or more? You might be surprised. When I first started playing ARK: Survival Evolved at the launch of its early access, it...