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Massively Overthinking: The slowest and fastest combat in MMORPGs
During a recent podcast discussion about City of Heroes' official revival, the MOP writers were talking about its combat, which - let's be honest...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Gold Road chapter takes players back to Oblivion’s best city on June 3
With the conclusion of Elder Scrolls Online's stream this afternoon, we can finally talk about the new chapter, dubbed Gold Road. TES fans who...
Watch Elder Scrolls Online reveal its 2024 chapter during this afternoon’s global stream
Update: Our preview piece on Gold Road is live now!
Furbish up your Twitch players, friends, as Elder Scrolls Online is fully unveiling its 2024...
Guild Wars 2 studio says no accounts involved in new social engineering claim were compromised by CS
The Guild Wars 2 Reddit community has been up in arms this week over a gigantic thread started by former ArenaNet partner and content...
Guild Wars 2 quietly kicks off its Return to Living World S1 event for the next week
Blink and you'll miss it, as ArenaNet isn't widely promoting it apart from a calendar note and mention on social media: Guild Wars 2...
Dungeons and Dragons Online begins testing its new Dragon Lord Fighter archetype
It was just last Friday that Dungeons and Dragons Online's producer confirmed that the MMO was getting at least two new class archetypes in...
Perfect Ten: The weirdest weapons from MMOs of yore
Swords. Staffs. Maces. Spears. Wands. Bows. Crossbows. Double-crossbows. Hammers. Wolverine claws. Daggers. Axes. Deadly? Yes. Fashionable? Not so much. A two-handed sword is so...
The Stream Team: Slaughtering Centaurs for a baby Skyscale in Guild Wars 2
The hatching and raising of her Guild Wars 2 Skyscale is progressing, and Massively Op's MJ aims to complete another achievement tonight. She's really...
Elder Scrolls Online teases this week’s global reveal with new video, preps Guilds and Glory event
It's time once again for Elder Scrolls Online to either entice players to return to older content or encourage more DLC sales. Regardless of...
The Stream Team: Starting Elder Scrolls Online’s Necrom with Eye of Fate
Disgusted by the forced soloing (and recalling why she abandoned it many years ago), Massively OP's MJ is ending her attempts at finishing Elder...
The Daily Grind: Do you track your MMO gaming habits from year to year?
Steam's customized "year in review" report captured everyone's attention for a hot minute back in December. All over social media and in my favorite Discords,...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v7.0
Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...
One Shots: Fine dining at the end of the world
When the moon is crashing down into the ocean to cause tsunamis, earthquakes, firestorms, and a mass extinction-level event, what is there to do...
Guild Wars 2 shares patch notes for its next balance update, prepares the return of Living World Season 1
It's both a look to the future and a blast from the past for Guild Wars 2 players, as ArenaNet has posted the initial...
Vague Patch Notes: The real question every MMO has to answer
Why am I here?
A lot of times I will slow-roll my column and lead to something unexpected, something that I am sure you are...
End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2024
As I say every single year and several people ignore every single year: This is not a column about the games that are most...
Steam welcomes ‘legally murky’ AI games, voice actors guild forges controversial AI deal
Valve waited until end of business last night to post big news: It's going to allow AI-driven games on Steam, with just enough caveats...
The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2 boss beat-down
Since she has finished raising her turtle in Guild Wars 2, Massively OP's MJ only has the skyscale left to focus on. To finally...
Elder Scrolls Online sets January 18 reveal date as rumors over the next chapter swirl
It's January aka MMO roadmap month, and Elder Scrolls Online is joining the call, as ZeniMax Online Studios has announced that its big global...
Elite Dangerous player summarizes the playable Thargoid War content added throughout 2023
Looking through the updates made to Elite Dangerous in 2023, you'd be forgiven for believing that Frontier Developments spent all of its time fixing...
