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Vague Patch Notes: Anonymity is not why people are awful online
One of the intentions of the Vague Patch Notes column is to have a place to share things that we're going to need to...
Perfect Ten: A sampler of crowdfunded MMOs and how they’re doing
I've gone on the record many a time as being deeply suspicious of Kickstarter and crowdfunding when it comes to MMOs. There are reasons...
Twitch suffers massive data breach as a hacker gets away with source code and streamer payout details
Twitch is having a very bad day today as a hacker has managed to hack and release 125GB worth of data, which has since...
Guild Wars 2 teases End of Dragons’ lush Shing Jea zone in new trailer
Shing Jea: If you played Classic Guild Wars: Factions, it's the island you grew up on, literally. And of course, it's coming with the...
LOTRO Legendarium: Fate of Gundabad is shaping up to be the full expansion that LOTRO needs
Right before all of the news this week got sucked into the gravity well of the launch of a certain MMO, Lord of the...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Deadlands DLC launches November 1 on PC, hits 19M players
During its big reveal stream this afternoon, ZeniMax Online took the wraps off off multiple content and event additions for The Elder Scrolls Online...
Interview: Cryptic untangles Neverwinter’s new battle pass experiment
Earlier this month, we learned that Cryptic is planning a multi-tiered battle pass for Neverwinter. Echoes of Prophecy will serve as the content campaign...
WoW Factor: The disjointed state of World of Warcraft
Right now, it feels like World of Warcraft is kind of a mess. This is not exactly a surprise. It's also not exactly helped...
Working As Intended: Brute-forcing the MMO industry
If you're a music fan, and you probably are since you're a human, you've probably come to grips with the sense that somehow the...
Tamriel Infinium: Anatomy of Elder Scrolls Online’s quests
An amazing thing happened on my way to the MMO variety store: I got completely sucked back in to Elder Scrolls Online. It did...
Vague Patch Notes: The problem with flight and flying maps in MMOs
The other night, I found myself inevitably funneled into a mistake. There wasn't much I could do about it, sadly;Â Guild Wars 2 had decided...
Perfect Ten: It’s time to end all dragons in MMORPGs
If a genie ever appeared to grant me three wishes, I would not hesitate. I would not be selfish by asking for more wishes...
Why I Play: Returning to Guild Wars 2 and exploring elite specs after nine years
I have a strange history with Guild Wars 2. I fell hard for the pre-launch hype, and when it finally arrived, I loved it...
New World, Day 2: Where Amazon’s new MMO stands on queues, concurrency, servers, and transfers
It's been almost 24 hours since the final region of New World went live, and those have been an interesting 24 hours, as anyone...
Hands-on: Does New World hold up in the midgame and beyond?
You know how you're granted a look at a new game, whether it's through an open beta or a demo or a preview event,...
New World is live around the globe as some queues cap at 25K and concurrency passes 700K
Amazon's New World is officially live everywhere now as the West coast servers have just gone live, and it's blown way past its beta...
Activision-Blizzard says it’s settling with the EEOC, committing $18M to victims and charities
Last week, we covered the revelation that multiple federal agencies, including the US Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Fate of Gundabad launches November 10 – preorders have begun
Standing Stone Games has finally taken the wraps off the Fate of Gundabad expansion for Lord of the Rings Online in today's big preorder...
Wisdom of Nym: What the removal of high-quality items means for Final Fantasy XIV crafting
Anyone who has read my column here for any substantial length of time probably knows that one of my biggest axioms is to wait...
First Impressions: Revisiting memorable locales in Diablo II Resurrected
What a time to be alive. I can't believe I'm playing a remastered version of one of my all time favorite PC games. And...
