Massively Overthinking: What are your criteria for recommending MMOs?
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...
EverQuesting: EverQuest II is a packrat’s paradise
While some consider the acquisition of stuff to be distracting to gameplay, others of us know that it is actually a vital part of...
The Daily Grind: Do you actually care whether game studios apologize for screw-ups?
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...
WoW Factor: So Battle for Azeroth is out for pre-order
Well, folks, I hope you've made your pre-purchases of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth and started playing your allied races. I found out...
The Daily Grind: Has the MOBA bubble burst?
The past few weeks have not been kind for fans of MOBAs. In a short span of time we've lost Paragon, Master x Master,...
Battle Bards Episode 114: Vroom vroom!
Yes officer, these Battle Bards were well above the speed limit and violated many noise complaints in the local neighborhoods. But it was for...
Tamriel Infinium: Where will the next Elder Scrolls Online ‘chapter’ take place?
In case you missed it, a couple of weeks back there were a couple of spoilers datamined from the testing files that seem to...
Perfect Ten: Ten more World of Warcraft races fans would like to play
Sometimes, you write a column more or less as a mental exercise, and then World of Warcraft drops an expansion pre-purchase that makes it...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been griefed in MMOs outside of combat?
It's a mistake to assume that the term "griefing" in an MMO context only refers to a nasty act in PvP combat, such as...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 155: Pirates, progression, and patches
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.
Re-examining Asheron’s Call’s Shard of the Herald event on its first deathiversary
Although the Asheron's Call series has now been dead for exactly one year today, it's far from forgotten by fans. It was admittedly a cult classic, and...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG for a trio?
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...
Wisdom of Nym: Reacting to the Final Fantasy XIV patch 4.2 notes
My initial plan for this particular column was just to write "woo patch notes woo" but I was informed that this plan had certain...
The Daily Grind: Do MMO daily login rewards work on you?
I've always wondered about this because the last few years, I've seemed impervious to the charms of daily login rewards. Even for the MMOs...
Guild Chat: Choosing your MMO guild officers wisely
Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, the column through which we join forces to solve a particular guild-related issue for one Massively...
Massively Overthinking: Considering pay-to-win MMO peripherals
MOP reader and commenter Sally Bowls recently sent along a link to an insanely awesome 34" monitor that costs more than a lot of...
The Game Archaeologist: Fallen Age
Imagine that one day you wake up, stumble to your computer, and check in on the morning news. Among the various tidbits is a...
The Daily Grind: What kind of reputation do you have in your MMO guild?
The way some players tell it, back in the olden days of MMOs, your reputation was everything. With fewer games, longer grinds, and more...
The Survivalist: The downside of hosting custom servers for survival games (and why we don’t do it)
After the latest guide introduced even more possible games to sink our survival teeth into, it is understandable that the question cropped up again...
Choose My Adventure: Brain bug mischief in Project Gorgon
As soon as I knew I was going after something called "brain bugs" in Project Gorgon, my mind immediately jumped to images of the...
