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Pandaren in World of Warcraft have always bothered me. Not because the expansion that introduced them was bad (it was certainly better than the...

Behind history are people and stories, some of them well-known and some of them obscure. It has been my mission in The Game...

In the past couple of Lord of the Rings Online expansions, I've noticed that the writing team has kind of created a breakout...

I have a vivid memory from when I was younger - about 12 or so - of walking through the local Walmart with my...

The day has come: the day when we look back at last year's predictions for this year and see how we did. Yep,...

Last time around in WoW Factor, we took a nice healthy look back at how itemization has evolved in World of Warcraft...

Thanks to MOP reader Agemyth's suggestion way back in 2016, we’ve been debating the best new zone added to an MMO for the...

Here we are. The newest Final Fantasy XIV patch is as much a proof of concept as the original Blue Mage launch was, showing...

I am well aware of the reasoning behind why there are several doors in Final Fantasy XIV on buildings you cannot enter. The point...

Everyone is healthy! Good news! Every game is super healthy and absolutely no one has a terminal playerbase disease that may result in the...

Last Friday's dev stream showed off more about Warframe Railjack - more as in flight and in fights! The devs detailed the...

I don't know how high I'd rate on an MMO explorer scale, but I have been known to go off-track and wander around in...

It’s no secret that 2019 was a rough year for Guild Wars 2. There were some bright spots in there as well, however,...

Maybe I'm showing my old-school nature here, but loading screens don't bother me all that much. I cut my MMO teeth on games like...

There are eight crafting classes in Final Fantasy XIV, and in all likelihood we're always going to have eight crafting classes at this...

When I first heard about Kingdom Under Fire II by publisher Gameforge, I wasn't sure what to expect. I'd heard that it...

In going through our annual posts ahead of our December awards and whatnot, I noticed a bunch of stories about movies and TV shows...

Value is a weird concept. It makes sense at face value; for example, it's pretty easy to sit down, list exactly the features I...

Here's an esoteric tidbit for you today: Way back in 2010 when I took over the Lord of the Rings Online column at...

The other night I was working my way through a fairly typical quest in Lord of the Rings Online in which I had to...