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You’ll likely notice that I missed out on last week’s Choose My Adventure and for that I apologize. This past week I have been...

Hey, remember back when people used to type "first!" as the first reply to threads? Yeah, that was funny for like a whole week,...

All right, here's the deal. Every time we get a new patch, I wind up finding that I have two of these columns' worth...

About a month ago, Amazon’s large age of conquest MMO, New World, announced a huge shift in focus from a free-for-all, full-loot PvP game...

As longtime Elder Scrolls Online players well know, ZeniMax is launching the first chunk of content for the Dark Heart of Skyrim today for...

A week or two ago, I got a random PR in my inbox about Operencia: The Stolen Sun, a game we will probably never...

It's one thing to put a lot of music in your MMORPG or even to release that launch-day album. It's another thing entirely to...

Longtime commenter and friend to man and beast alike Danny Smith mentioned recently that there's a rumor of Blizzard putting World of Warcraft allied race...

As we approach the first anniversary of City of Heroes' revival on the rogue server circuit, I wanted to take this opportunity to share...

I would very much like any and all MMO developers who are reading this to hear me: Please, please make your user interface as...

If I made a New Year's wish upon a falling star, it wouldn't be far-fetched to think getting new content in Secret World Legends...

So it seems pretty likely at this point that we are going to keep going through the various World of Warcraft expansions with Classic servers...

It's very obvious why Final Fantasy XIV has items like Antidotes. These medicines are consistently present across the series, so they need to be in...

A couple years back (this being the definition where "a couple" means "I can't remember precisely how many"), I was talking with a friend...

This guest Soapbox was commissioned through MassivelyOP's Patreon program and is authored by Steve "Sray" Blouin, a name our longtime commenters will surely recognize...

Not quite a year ago, when Amazon took New World out of alpha and back to the drawing board, I posed almost this exact...

Last December, the Massively OP 2019 Awards gave its "Best Trend" nod to the rise of rogue servers in the MMO genre. Preservation of...

Because I love a good story in an MMO -- I know, I'm rebelling against the cool crowd here -- I particularly enjoy it...

Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga has so far been filled with plenty of nostalgic callbacks to the original Guild Wars’ Eye of the North...

I've written before about MMO economies and how badly handled inflation can wreck them because it's one of my pet favorite topics, but the...