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Choose My Adventure: Opening and exploring the astrolabe forest in Nightingale
I was not expecting the voting to be as close as it was for this game. There was a nearly three-way tie at polls'...
World of Warcraft announces Plunderstorm, a pirate-themed battle royale mode
Blizzard has apparently had enough of merely teasing World of Warcraft's pirate-esque update with icons and winks: It's officially announced what it's calling Plunderstorm....
Vague Patch Notes: You might be the reason you no longer love this MMO
Despite its ubiquity in sitcoms throughout the '90s, I have never had a single relationship end with the other person saying, "It's not you,...
Well Fed: An exploration of the Final Fantasy XIV official cookbook
Welcome back, my fellow gaming gourmands, to Well Fed, the column that answers the question: Are gaming and MMO cookbooks any good? And this...
Jagex co-founder announces Brighter Shores MMO, launching free-to-play in Q3 2024
It would be pretty amusing if after all those mis-fires with new games, the next Jagex MMO actually comes from someone who left Jagex...
Vitae Aeternum: New World’s dungeon finder is a welcome addition
A few weeks ago, New World finally launched its cross-world expedition group finder, otherwise known as a dungeon finder. While it was arguably overdue,...
First impressions: Final Stand Ragnarok is not Camelot Unchained, but it’s a fun romp anyway
At the top of 2020, when City State Entertainment's Mark Jacobs first announced Final Stand Ragnarok - called Project Colossus back then - it...
Vague Patch Notes: Sort your own MMO community, guy
One of the things I note is that every so often - not all the time, but every so often - something will just...
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Classic is open for beta testing now
Remember when World of Warcraft had just launched Cataclysm? Are you eager to do that again? Stop shaking your head and shouting that you...
Into the Super-Verse: What kind of legs does City of Heroes have in the longer term?
So it's time to start talking about the future of City of Heroes. To be fair, I'm not talking about it from a financial...
Tamriel Infinium: Ranking Elder Scrolls Online’s 10 races from worst to best
One thing that I appreciate about Elder Scrolls Online is that any race can be any class. None of that racial or gender-locking for...
Perfect Ten: MMOs where you can play as robots and cyborgs
Robots are, let's face it, very important. You might say that's not true, and to that I say: When you get to write the...
Choose My Adventure: Starting on the road to success and self-reliance in Nightingale
A lot of the first few hours of Nightingale are tutorial. That's probably not terribly surprising considering survival sandboxes need some guidance (and it's...
LOTRO Legendarium: Three key problems LOTRO can’t seem to solve
There's a special agony reserved for faithful fans of a franchise when they see said franchise make unforced errors, decline in quality, or fail...
Into the Super-verse: How City of Heroes shows its flexibility with how I’ve changed
When City of Heroes waved farewell in 2012, I had an army of alts who were, at most, in their mid-30s. And I loved...
10-year-old Camelot Unchained is launching ‘late next year’ following CSE rebrand and investment haul
So, remember Camelot Unchained? The throwback sandbox MMORPG that was Kickstarted way back in 2013, hit beta in 2018, then added a second game...
Daybreak’s EverQuest-themed Fippyfest fan event will cost in-person attendees $1499
Last week, when Daybreak announced it's planning a live/digital EverQuest community event called Fippyfest in June, the studio said it'd be opening ticket sales...
Funcom’s Dune Awakening MMO is finally promising trailers and hype as Dune 2 hits theaters
Throughout the length of the Dune MMORPG's development, it's seemed weird that Funcom and Tencent didn't push harder to link the game more directly...
Casually Classic: Is it worth playing into World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm Classic?
Do you know that feeling of flipping through cable channels or endless Netflix menus only to suspect there's nothing on that would hit the...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s The Realm of Dreams, launching today
Can you believe it has been more than half a year since we took our first steps into the mysterious, long-teased Wizard's Tower in...
