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Choose My Adventure: The perfect sandbox MMORPG already exists in Project Gorgon
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever delighted in being so lost in an MMORPG before.
Most of the time, being kicked out into the...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the brightest future right now, at the end of 2019?
A few years back, we did an Overthinking on the MMO with the brightest future. It was so popular we started making it an...
The most popular Massively OP MMO articles of 2019
One of my favorite things to do every year is drill down the top articles on the site for our readers. But in 2018,...
Wisdom of Nym: Yes, Final Fantasy XIV’s Empire is just plain bad
All right, let's be totally clear about something that... feels like it should already be obvious, but seems to not be. The Garlean Empire...
Fight or Kite: Totally reasonable expectations for PvP MMORPGs in 2020
A new year is upon us, and I am especially excited this time around. The past few calendar swap-outs have been pretty stale from...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO boasts the best console experience?
2019 has been an amazing year for MMOs on console, with Black Desert paving the way to become only the second MMORPG in the...
MMO Cartographer: Reminiscing on the MMOs we toured in 2019
It is that time of the year when retrospectives abound and people set their resolutions for the upcoming year. That seems like exactly the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you think had the most fortunate 2019?
To some extent, I think this was a lucky year for The Elder Scrolls Online. All it had to do this year was keep trucking...
The Daily Grind: What is the best MMO holiday event minigame ever designed?
While Halloween seems to bring out a lot of spooky instances and trick-or-treating in MMORPGs, I've always felt that the Christmas season sees more...
MMO Cartographer: Gamigo’s voxel MMO Trove is a blocky treasure
Trove was not entirely new to me when I decided to return to its shores for MMO Cartographer this fall. I'd toyed with it...
WoW Factor: A quick glance back at 2019 for World of Warcraft
So how did this year go for Blizzard Entertainment? Well... badly. You cannot have missed all of that. But it also went badly in...
The Daily Grind: What was the most painful MMO sunset of 2019?
It wasn't a great year. We'll do our annual run-down of all the sunsetted MMORPGs of the year later on this month, but we're...
Why I Play: How NCsoft’s Fafurion update saved Lineage 2 in 2019
I don't know what it is about Asian MMOs, but I'm inexplicably drawn to them. Maybe it has something to do with my background;...
Vague Patch Notes: My wrecked treasure in No Man’s Sky
She was dubbed the Tender Claw C27, and I found her upside-down and half-buried in the ground beside the final beacon of the tutorial...
The Daily Grind: Do your MMOs go on break for the holidays?
Congratulations to you because it's December 26th! You survived the main crush of the holiday, feel good about yourself. And assuming that you belong...
A very World of Warcraft Christmas
Vallin stroked his beard absently for the dozenth time. Just like the first several times, he had forgotten about the rings of his glove,...
The Daily Grind: If you wanted to sell your friend on an MMO, what would your pitch be?
Our favorite video games tend to make evangelists of us. It's only natural to want to share something you passionately love with your friends,...
Jukebox Heroes: A Charlie Brown MMO Christmas
I don't know if you realized this, but every year Bree asks me to whip up a column of MMO holiday tunes for Christmas....
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2019
When I was handed the reins of Choose My Adventure by the incomparably awesome Eliot, I had bare little idea what sort of things...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO had the best player community in 2019?
So here's a fun Daily Grind we've been doing for the last few years, and it seems fitting to bring it back around on...
