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Did you think that the game wasn't watching when you fell flat on your face or got taken out by a level 2 sheep?...

2022 marks the fifth year in a row we've done this roundup, but the Daily Grind has been a recurring mini-column here on MassivelyOP...

Justin and Bree tackle mailbag topics including Amazon's Blue Protocol publishing deal, bad habits picked up from MMOs, MMO NPCs, wasted zones, character conceptualization, Hero Wars, gaming peripherals, books about MMOs, and MMOs as crowdsourcing tools.

Last week, the MassivelyOP writing crew released its award for the best PvP MMO of the year - yet I couldn’t bring myself to...

Capping off what it deemed a "crazy year of growth," Ashes of Creation's dev team wrapped up 2022 with a reflective video hosted in...

Here's the thing about MMO community: There exists no perfect one. Every single one of them has bad elements. Some of them are out...

If burnout is one of the worst feelings to have in gaming, then one of the best is what I call "the click." It's...

If you're not already broke from buying presents this holiday season, why not treat yourself to the annual gamer gluttony that is the Steam...

It's tradition for us to pick out one big story or narrative arc that defined the year and slap it with an award label,...

'Tis the season for a whole lot of MMORPGs to release their previews for the new year, and Lost Ark is no different. Smilegate...

If territory control is your main focus in New World, you're going to want to tune in to this week's Forged in Aeternum episode....

One of the underrated aspects of being an MMO player is that our games get more updates and expansions than almost any other type...

Justin and Bree discuss MMO winter holidays, Chris Metzen's return to WoW, WoW's trading post, Blizzard still hunting for a China publisher, My.Games leaving Russia, and Elder Scrolls Online altering its annual roadmap, with a voice mail topic on the Twitch drops phenomenon.

I have a pretty laid back approach to monetization in online games. Bar mandatory subscriptions and a few egregious outliers, I am generally fine...

As the hype builds for next year's launch of Blue Protocol, so is the amount of information we're learning about Bandai Namco's MMORPG import....

"Best crafting" has always been a hard pick for me as it's one of my core content magnets in an MMO, which tends to...

Nobody can see the future, but it sure is fun guessing, and that's exactly what we're going to do for (to?) the MMO genre...

Amazon Games might have had some trouble with getting its games to market and/or getting them to take off, but there's some hope now...

Justin and Bree discuss The Game Awards, Blue Protocol, Diablo IV, Nightingale, Wayfinder, Dune Awakening, the FTC fighting Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard merger, ZeniMax's unionization effort, and Black Desert's Calpheon Ball, plus an epic Daily Grind showdown with topics ranging from the MMO regrets to the best elves.

Why deck the halls when you can wreck 'em in Lost Ark's holiday update tomorrow? "The road to Brelshaza concludes tomorrow, when the cunning and...