Wisdom of Nym: Initial impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s Crossroads dungeon and alliance raid - It's interesting to me how often Final Fantasy XIV patches are inconsistent when it comes to what makes them interesting. This is perhaps not the strangest thing in the world…
MMO Week in Review: World of Warcraft will be ‘home’ by Midnight - Most MMO players who thought World of Warcraft should have housing also never expected it to happen, largely because, you know, the devs kept saying so - but it is…
MMO Hype Train: Into the Echo and the wish for a time travel MMO - Are there any MMO projects that you suspect only you remember and care about -- but everyone else has forgotten? I feel that way about Into the Echo, an interesting indie MMORPG…
Giveaway: Grab a Game of Sky starter bundle worth $200 in loot for the mobile strategy MMO - Here's a new one to our pages: Earlier this fall, Singapore-based IGG released a mobile strategy MMO called Game of Sky, driving hard into the "floating islands in the sky"…
WoW Factor: Home is where the heart is, even in World of Warcraft - It has been a curious sensation these last few months, looking at World of Warcraft: The War Within and not wanting to play. That might not sound weird, but... it…
Massively Overthinking: What are the great ‘popcorn games’ in the MMORPG genre? - MOP reader Elenie recently put the concept of "popcorn MMOs" back on my radar thanks to a comment about Neverwinter being an MMO many folks want to play only lightly.…
Fight or Kite: Age of Empires Mobile is a gacha-encrusted, overmonetized monstrosity - I’ve always been a bit of a fan of the Age of Empires IP despite not being MOP’s resident RTS gamer. That’s an honor bestowed to Tyler F.M. Edwards, whose…
Vague Patch Notes: Going solo isn’t a problem in MMORPGs - So I'm wrapping up a month of talking about how MMORPGs are by necessity social games. These are games in which you need other people around, and if you don't…
Perfect Ten: Why I still love Final Fantasy XI today - You know what's really funny to me when I think about it for more than five minutes? Final Fantasy XI is, at this point, older now than I was when…
Choose My Adventure: Roaming the wild frontier is the quintessence of Red Dead Online - When my best friend Britarnya started to get deep into her Red Dead Online cups, she was mostly just riding around the game's prairie looking for trouble or running into…
