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Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMOs of 2017’s PAX West
PAX West 2017 has come and gone, and though MJ is still feverishly working on her last few articles, we wanted to pause a...
City of Titans plans 2017 pre-alpha, crowdfund to ‘take things to the next level’
City of Titans studio Missing Worlds Media has just posted a recap of its presentation at last week's PAX West and a status update...
PAX West 2017: Ship of Heroes on exploration, community, and recapturing the magic of City of Heroes
Sometimes MMORPG players might get the feeling that game companies will let just about anything slide in order to keep the most revenue streaming...
Perfect Ten: The 10 saddest MMORPG stories
Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may not...
Ship of Heroes takes you on a tour of a short instance
Time to get your eerie City of Heroes vibe on with Ship of Heroes' latest video. If you still have regular flashbacks of fighting...
Perfect Ten: MMOs obsessed with the floating islands trope
One of the fun things about this hobby is that certain tropes repeat themselves constantly. And they're usually weirdly specific tropes, too. Poop quests,...
The PAX West City of Heroes and Ashes of Creation panels are a go
A few weeks back, we reported on the City of Heroes-themed panel coming to PAX West in Seattle at the beginning of September. With the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG for gamers who are sick of raiding?
In the middle of the conversation spawned by yesterday's financial news that Guild Wars 2 had seen its worst revenue quarter since launch, several...
Choose My Adventure: Get out of here, DC Universe Online
So this is an unusual situation for me: I've never actually played a game for Choose My Adventure that I've disliked this much.
Those of...
The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of character-obscuring morphs and modes in MMOs?
When ArenaNet went through Guild Wars 2's upcoming Path of Fire specs on Tuesday, I was super bummed about the Ranger, the class I'd...
City of Titans and Ship of Heroes team up for City of Heroes successor panel at PAX West
There will be a City of Heroes panel at PAX West... after a fashion. The game may be gone, but the City of Titans...
One Shots: Hail to the victor!
Have you ever been able to capture a truly victorious moment in your MMORPG journeys? Rees Racer did, and he is not above showing...
Choose My Adventure: Two approaches to whining about DC Universe Online
Dear readers, today I am going to try something different for all of you. And it's predicated on the fact that I'm not just...
How to find the right MMORPG as a couple
People seemed to quite like my piece last week about how my wife and I wound up married in no small part due to...
The Game Archaeologist: Where are all of the open-source MMOs?
Recently we had an interesting question come in from reader and Patron Rasmus Praestholm, who asked me to do a little investigating: "What (if...
How I got married through World of Warcraft
I've mentioned a lot of times, in passing, how my wife and I connected in part through World of Warcraft. But I've never actually...
Massively Overthinking: Do MMORPGs aspire to pro-social mechanics?
Massively OP reader and Patron Avaera has a thoughtful question for the team and readers this week. "I wish more virtual world games thought deeply...
Ghost Widow gets a spotlight on her Master x Master incarnation
While very few veteran City of Heroes fans were happy about the inclusion of Statesman in Master x Master for a variety of reasons,...
Choose My Adventure: Launching new in DC Universe Online
Looking at the the three big triple-A superhero titles, DC Universe Online has always felt like the odd one out. City of Heroes was...
Perfect Ten: MMO zones I love to hate
Let's be frank: Not every MMO zone can be a masterpiece of art, design, quest flow, and navigability. I mean, they totally should be,...
