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Ah, the weekly reset! It's a thing in a lot of games. It's a thing in Final Fantasy XIV, in World of Warcraft, in...

Let's take a trip back to the dewy slopes of June 2006, when Chris Metzen addressed the question of how the lore of the...

There's kind of a running joke of sorts that happens in most MMO dungeon PUGs that I've seen, where a group will tolerate exactly...

There's roleplaying in MMORPGs, and then there is playing a role! We're talking pixelated actors performing live theater within a virtual world. Yes, it's...

In 2010, popular video game network MTV noted that NCsoft had filed an interesting trademark for a possible City of Heroes 2. While companies...

MOP's Tyler dropped an amusing remark in our work chat a while back about forgetting stuff in MMOs - in his case, an MMO...

With TennoCon 2019 in the rearview mirror, it's time for folks to buckle down and get back to work developing more awesomeness for Warframe....

I have a few vices, and one of them is a mild to moderate obsession with game pets and mounts. I am pretty sure...

So now that Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers has been released, basically everyone playing the game has completely forgotten that the expansion actually prompted some...

Let me be up-front with my own feelings: Bots are bad. Not robots, of course; we all know how I feel about robots. No,...

When I first started playing Black Desert, it was because I wanted to play a Dark Knight. From her animations, armors, and that sweet...

Your first experience with something has an outsized importance. This feels like one of those statements people really want to argue with sometimes but...

We're only now in the middle of July, but so far it feels as though summer 2019 has been a non-stop rollercoaster of great...

Disaster! Our plucky Praetorian has plunged into a pit of perilous despair! The challenges of this bold new world are mounting, and the pint-sized...

It's not often I really get excited about an upcoming MMORPG. Partly this is because of the industry slowing down, and partly this is...

Yesterday, Rock Paper Shotgun penned a piece on video game nostalgia. Editor Brian Caldwell interviewed a pile of game devs about why specifically they're...

So, here's the genesis of this particular column: Originally, my plan was to actually just talk about story beats from Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers...

This week we saw a nice patch released for the world of Albion Online with its Percival update. It’s largely a general quality-of-life update...

In our mailbag podcast a few weeks back, we answered a question about Wildstar, specifically about whether early access might have helped the game...

I've been using my mouse for hotkeys for years, to the point that I feel most comfortable doing that for abilities rather than clicking....