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Given the week that Activision-Blizzard just had - capping off a record financial year by haphazardly firing 800 employees, literally provoking union groups to...

The gambling debate has kicked off again in EVE Online, this time in response to the annual Guardian's Gala event that's currently running...

You know, for all the fun of going back and curbstomping low-level enemies, that doesn't make me feel powerful in an MMO. What makes...

In the MMO industry, science fiction has always taken the role of the overlooked little brother to big sister fantasy's popularity. Sure, there have...

The other day I was driving through my neighborhood and I happened to look at a cross-street that read WESTFALL. And, being the former...

It was just supposed to be a minor patch for Final Fantasy XIV and it's touched off a huge flurry of confusion. Someone in...

Blogger and MOP reader Serrenity recently pointed us to a Kotaku article on the subject of video game nostalgia. Author Alyse Knorr maintains...

In the real world, I am not a cat person. Actually, I'm not a pet person. But in video games, I collect minipets, tame...

Yes, it's another week in which we talk about abstract concepts that underpin the way we play video games, this time inspired by a...

Housing is a big and elaborate system to add into any game, and it's always an expensive system to include in terms of resources....

It's still early enough in 2019 to do articles about the upcoming year, right? Well, I'm doing this one anyway, so if it's too...

It's a good time to be a yearning space pilot, as Elite: Dangerous is already on the field and titles like Star...

I don't think I can express how excited I am to bring this column to life on Massively Overpowered. Reverse Engineering covers the...

First things first: I got my bear. This, as many players will attest, is the most important part of being a Warden. I had...

When New World was announced back in 2016, the MMO community went to work dissecting everything, from its PvP system to its...

While EVE Online is primarily based around the conflicts that arise between groups of players competing in the same virtual universe, the New...

We're almost done with the fan festival hype cycle, and to be honest, that's kind of a relief. Not that I don't enjoy looking...

So it happened last week: My kid told me I was mean because I wouldn't let him play Fortnite when all his friends...

It's hard for me to be sure exactly when MMOs decided that jumping puzzles were the thing to include as an option. Guild Wars 2...

In about a month, Lord of the Rings Online's progression servers will unlock their first expansion and take us deep into the mines...