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Let me teach you how to understand Mephala the Webspinner. Maybe that's misleading; she's a Deadric Prince, and who can really understand the motivations...

Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...

Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column through which many Massively Overpowered readers get the help they need to achieve better balance within their...

It's easy to miss one of the worst bits of news about the next Final Fantasy XIV Live Letter because it's tucked in the...

As a collector and reviewer of MMORPG soundtracks, I owe a great debt to fellow music lovers who take the time to somehow extract...

If there is one thing this past week has emphasized to me, it's that powering through just the main story missions of Secret World...

With April Fool's Day falling on a Sunday, Passover, and Easter, I didn't actually spend a lot of time on the internet watching the...

Less than a year ago, I faced a crisis as a fan and player of The Secret World. Funcom abruptly announced that it would...

With 30 years of history, Final Fantasy as a series has had lots of riffs on the same basic ideas. It's the only thing...

There's just a week and a half to go before EVE Fanfest 2018, the biggest event in the EVE Online social calendar. The event kicks...

Once asked what he thought was the most innovative MMO from the last decade, Dr. Richard Bartle, the creator of MUD, gave a succinct answer: "A...

Spring has sprung! And for EverQuest II, that means a return of Beast'r Eggs and Bristlebane. Norrathians get to celebrate the season by immersing...

Even though I don't believe that Summerset was the best choice for the next expansion for the Elder Scrolls Online, that doesn't mean that...

A while back, you may recall that I posted some of my conversations with anthropomorphized concepts of MMO studios. If you don't remember this,...

Quick, you there! Tell me what's going to be in the next patch for Final Fantasy XIV, patch 4.3! Not all of it, though,...

And here we arrive at last in our multi-week countdown to the final seven. It has been a fun and delightful journey through World...

News of over 30 gaming companies taking a united stand against unfairness and toxicity in online game communities sprung out of GDC 2018 a...

War. War never ends. Especially if it was designed and encouraged to wage forever. One of the most popular computer gaming genres of the late...

The things I do for you! You know that story is everything to me, and in order to bring you more information, I allowed...

Last week, we got confirmation that Kul Tiran Humans and Mag'har Orcs are coming to the Allied Race roster for World of Warcraft: Battle...