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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,...
Choose My Adventure: Cryptic’s Neverwinter in review
My time with Neverwinter is done, and it's a game I find myself in an odd relationship with. It'd be fair to say that...
NCsoft MOBA Master X Master launches today
Master X Master is officially launching in the West today, bringing NCsoft's take on a multi-IP MOBA-with-a-twist to our shores. The twist is the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the ideal group size for an MMORPG?
During this week's Massively OP podcast (live this afternoon!), Justin and I tackled a detailed question about MMO group makeup, the trinity, and combat,...
City of Titans on endgame, alting, PvP, business models, lockboxes, and whales
The first and most-backed City of Heroes successor City of Titans has a couple of dev pieces out this month answering questions posed to...
Cryptic’s Magic the Gathering RPG: Speculating on the lore and game systems
An RPG based on Magic: the Gathering is one of those things I have both long wanted and long assumed was just never going...
Battle Bards Episode 100: Centennial spectacular!
After four years and over 700 MMORPG music tracks, the Battle Bards have arrived at their 100th show! For this centennial spectacular, Syl, Steff,...
Perfect Ten: My favorite MMO dungeons
It's hard to look at an MMORPG and imagine them without dungeons. For some people, these instances are the core of their game experience,...
Ship of Heroes explores its spaceship mission maps
Raise your hand if you're a superhero MMORPG fan who really, really wants to see good mission maps. None of this office building #3457225...
Valiance Online’s capital city hall is ‘akin to the Pentagon’ for supers
Back in April, Silverhelm Studios told players it was instituting "big changes" in the way it was rolling out information for City of Heroes-inspired...