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One Shots: Blown away by a kiss
First of all, thank you to everyone who heeded the call for more screenshot submissions! I know you all love sharing those in the...
Massively Overthinking: Building your dream MMORPG
Massively OP Kickstarter donor xenaphex wants to hear about our dream MMOs. What really makes you tick? What would you build with a million-bajillion...
One Shots: Pin-up calendar
Here's an interesting idea: using screenshots to make a calendar! Reader Elana was part of a team that did just that in The Secret World:...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO prison?
Fictional prisons can be pretty fascinating to explore in books and video games. I've noticed that pretty much every MMO has at least one...
Marvel Heroics: My Marvel Heroes wish list
If there's one constant in the gaming universe, it's that every MMO player has a wish list. It's almost impossible to spend any length...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMO futures that never were
One of the things I spend a lot of time thinking about is Operation Unthinkable. For those of you who don't feel like clicking...
Perfect Ten: Clever features that should be in more MMOs
MMOs are built on the backs of many interlocking systems, some more crucial to the experience than others. While I have great appreciation for...
One Shots: Holding a torch for City of Heroes
No, you're not seeing yet another ancient screenshot from the late, great City of Heroes. No, this is something far more recent and special....
Paragon Chat sees 200 concurrent users at peak
Paragon Chat is not the City of Heroes revival that everyone wants, obviously, but it is a chance to walk around, chat, and enjoy...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best storyline in an MMO?
Story is a polarizing word to MMO players: Either you love it or hate it, or maybe you just think it stinks or isn't...
City of Titans demos its costume-making process
Every superhero worth her or his salt knows that it's the costume that makes the hero. Well, that and a heapload of mutant powers,...
Massively Overthinking: Random encounters in MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter donor TheChiHawk, and it's coming from an unusually not-so-massive corner of gamesdom for us:
Are...
City of Titans development finally ‘on track’
"The shadow of doubt has passed, and the state of the game is strong," City of Titans President Nathaniel Downes trumpets in his newest...
City of Heroes is returning… as a chat client
The dream of seeing City of Heroes reborn is still just that -- a dream. But through the hard efforts of fans of the...
One Shots: Primitive GPS
There's no shame in being lost, especially if your MMO doesn't include an on-screen map. Anyone remember the olden days of using graph paper...
The Game Archaeologist: Seven MMOs operating on borrowed time
Most everyone who knows me well will acknowledge that I'm not generally a cynical, dark person. I'm not rooting for games to fail, for...
Global Chat: Blizzard’s war on flying
How is the MMO blogging community reacting to Blizzard's proclamation that flying mounts are grounded -- perhaps permanently -- in World of Warcraft? In...
Valiance Online begins a patch blitz
Superheroes don't do anything in half-measures, and neither does City of Heroes spiritual successor Valiance Online. The team updated the title yesterday with the...
WildStar’s free-to-play shift: Too little or just enough?
WildStar has taken a drubbing in its first year of operation, and much as I don't like saying so, it's deserved it. The game...
Valiance Online plots its strategy going forward
What's going on in the super-powered world of Valiance Online? Quite a lot, actually. The spiritual successor to City of Heroes posted a list...
