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It's really silly to have alts in Final Fantasy XI or Final Fantasy XIV. I do. I actually have several. The one saving grace I have...

While my primary interest and focus in this column continues to be Lord of the Rings Online, I'm not so stubborn as to refuse...

At a baseline, I expect my MMO guilds to at least keep me entertained and socially connected through chat. But the really good guilds,...

To the moon, Alice! Well, I may not be Alice, but I did go straight to the moon. EverQuest II's Blood of Luclin expansion...

So now we've gone through all of the ability unpruning and changing coming with World of Warcraft's next expansion. We know what it's going...

Rollbacks are in the news lately, and not for great reasons - some Guild Wars 2 players did indeed lose hours of time played...

Guilds: one of the quintessential social features of an MMO. Along with grinding, crafting, and partying up, guilds are just one of those things...

I had finally hit level 41 on Red Mage in Final Fantasy XI. That was when the world changed, and if you played the game,...

The other day, I was talking with a friend who raised an interesting point that's still sticking in my head. She was talking about...

When Digital Extremes announced the scrapping of all TennoCon 2020 in-person attendee plans, I was understandably pretty bummed. After all, Warframe's event nabbed the...

It's been a weird and wonderful year for City of Heroes fans. In April of 2019, the expose of a secret City of Heroes...

Pretty much since its inception, World of Warcraft has made a point to include just-for-fun items that were more about personal expression and enjoyment....

MMORPGs crossing over into other entertainment mediums isn't unknown to us at this point, of course. There was that Warcraft movie that one time....

There are some things that exist in games because they make sense in-universe, and there are some things that exist solely as a game...

One thing I'm particularly proud of is that the MOP staff and MMO community - then on old Massively - were waaaaay out in...

We don't know just how long it's going to be before we're all chilling out in the battlefield for Final Fantasy XIV's next relic weapon...

In these trying times, I think we're all dealing with a certain degree of anxiety and loneliness. For some of us, feeling worried and...

Since dipping my toe back into classic Guild Wars last month for the anniversary fun, I took myself on a wee tour of some...

Even the most casual of video game soundtrack fans must know the name Yasunori Mitsuda. The legendary composer is perhaps best known for his...

Playing lots of MMOs can help you understand the discourse around them... which, as often as not, is crouched deep in the language of...