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I was hanging out in an MMO's Discord channel a while back when I skimmed through a convo where some folks were grumping about...

Back in my day when I started playing MMOs, I took it as pretty well understood that you were going to want to join...

Whenever I leave an MMO -- usually because I'm approaching boredom or burnout -- I recognize that there's a good chance that I'll be...

Pokemon Go’s already tried rolling back some of its COVID features, and between the original announcement of its June disappearance and the announcement of...

I've seen a few folks in our comments and Reddit lately mention that they like MMOs - but that they're more interested in watching...

The last time I wrote an installment of this column, it was in specific response to an interview that contained no small number of...

Elyon's closed beta test came and went, and boy am I happy with what I played. It was unfortunate that the test fell on...

One of the things that always strikes me as interesting is the different opinions regarding what an MMO play session should look like. Some people...

Boy, am I glad I read the comments. That's not an admission that I very often make when it comes to my online life,...

MMOs are places of great imagination, where developers take fantastic concepts and make them real (in a sense). MMOs are also places of great...

Out of all of the many frustrating decisions that Blizzard has made, its stubborn refusal to add a proper player housing system to World...

If there's anything that Blizzard excels in doing these days, it's taking a slam-dunk publicity announcement and turning it into a hurricane of poop....

The funny thing about our ongoing pandemic is that it didn't really change the way video game previews are done. It turns out that...

I had this dream the other night wherein somehow, we had the digital fan festival for Final Fantasy XIV but didn't learn any new...

Well, the alpha testing has concluded. Frontier Developments have presumably collected all the metrics and opinions they could want, and Elite Dangerous is heading...

Gamers often lament that the world of MMORPGs lacks innovation. It's a frustration I share; this a genre that could be much more than...

Let's talk about classlessness. A few years after World of Warcraft took off, there was a push in the MMO industry to revive earlier...

It's been far, far too long since I've dipped into Guild Wars 2's soundtrack. I feel deeply shamed for this neglect, especially considering how...

We tend to pay a lot more attention to music than sound when it comes to MMOs, which is odd because both of them...

Historically, space-bound MMORPGs have not had as easy of a go as their fantasy counterparts. For one thing, there are proportionally fewer of them...