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In my years of coverage of MMO soundtrack music in this column and on Battle Bards, I've clearly observed that there are games that...

Eleven years ago this week, the New Game Enhancements patch descended on Star Wars Galaxies, forever changing the trajectory of the game, SOE, and...

When you're running an online game, there are certain words that are pretty much always a harbinger of problems. Words like "outage," and "missing,"...

Reports this morning that players in various former Soviet countries, among others, had been unceremoniously barred from accessing NCsoft MMORPGs WildStar and Guild Wars...

Guild Wars 2 has just released the first trailer for A Crack in The Ice, the third episode of the third season of living...

Ever since Guild Wars 2's first expansion released, retired players or MMO hoppers have been insisting in comments across the internet that they would only...

Massively OP reader and listener Suikoden79 recently wrote in to the podcast with a gem of a question I thought would be more fun...

Patches should, in all honesty, be the easiest thing in the world for online games to handle. You have a word that means patch,...

NCsoft released its Q3 2016 financial results this morning. Here's a quick look at how the major MMORPGs are doing: WildStar's sales have plummeted,...

It is always much more of a relief to report on MMO studios hiring on new help rather than going through layoffs. Right now,...

Ascent: The Space Game isn't the only MMORPG dryly commenting on today's US elections: Guild Wars 2 has a "doomsday preparation pack" in the...

Debate and discussion continue in the MMO blogosphere over SWTOR's Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion, with many writers criticizing the expansion's format and...

I am not above indulging in a little universe window shopping now and then. NASA's pictures of the universe might be touched up with...

If there is one consistent inconsistency among MMORPG studios, it is that teams keep swinging back and forth on pursuing the expansion model. How...

In case you're bored by the multiple cameras BlizzCon is aiming at e-sports this weekend, maybe Guild Wars 2's e-sports during the same timeframe...

I've devoured all of my homemade pumpkin pasties and downed the last of my butterbeer while enjoying the Halloween festivities in Guild Wars 2, gaining...

As Guild Wars 2 players have been enjoying the Shadow of the Mad King festivities, they have also been wondering when, exactly, the game's...

The regular installments of Guild Wars 2's Tyrian Travels feature tell the story of an asura named Vikki and her moa named Momo, and...

Guild Wars 2's lockboxes got a bit of revision in today's patch. "You won’t find boosters among your loot anymore, but you will find a...

If there's one you never wanted to be labeled in classic Guild Wars, it was "leaver" -- the kind of person who'd leave a group...