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It's the perennial question of MMORPG characters: Do you wear a helmet or not? This may be a trickier question than it first seems. Avatar...

Back in February, I wrote about how Blizzard could help restore some player confidence about Shadowlands. And we're a few months in, and... yeah, that's...

The launch of Elder Scrolls Online's Greymoor this week was a bit of a bungle, though not one we've never seen before. Launching MMOs...

Almost a year ago, I penned a column on grindspot etiquette in MMORPGs. Specifically, I wrote about the commonly accepted etiquette when it comes...

After a lot of time spent expecting this particular announcement, yesterday it was finally confirmed that there will be no BlizzCon 2020. This is...

To this day, there is no starting zone in any MMO that has felt as warm and welcoming to me as Ronfaure in Final Fantasy...

Let's talk Delirium! We're in the third month of Path of Exile's latest league, and with the next league expected in June, we're running out...

Earth. Fire. Air. Water. These elements are all well and good if you want to summon Captain Planet for some reason, but they make...

The other day I was questing my way through the Shire in Lord of the Rings Online and chatting to my kinship about how...

It was unanimous: We were meant to be Romulans and continue with the storyline that we were following in Star Trek Online. The voting...

After March’s relatively lightweight release, Steel and Fire, a lot of Guild Wars 2 players were expecting something big from this month’s release, entitled...

MOP reader Ashfyn recently made an offhand comment about quality-of-life upgrades in MMOs that caught my attention. " was a my favorite game back...

There are a lot of themes that are running hot through the entirety of Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers. Some of them are very obvious and...

I spend a... lot of time in Star Wars Galaxies on the SWG Legends rogue server. I poke fun at myself for this, but...

While there always seems to be much love for steampunk among geeks and gamers, the setting never seems to be the catalyst to instant...

There's no good reason to call Guild Wars 2... well, that. The title of the original Guild Wars already didn't make a whole lot of sense because...

If you thought that it was strange for MTV to create its own virtual world, then you probably are forgetting how desperate companies always...

Maybe I'm in the vast minority here, but it's always bugged me that MMORPGs just plop your fully grown, fully proficient adult character into...

It's kind of weird for me to see the intensely positive reaction people have had to the concept art for the original version of Diablo...

Underwater zones in video games has been a hot topic lately. I don't know who started it, but I noticed when I saw the...