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The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO for playing on a potato?
I saw a thread on the MMORPG subreddit a while back asking about MMOs that function well on low-end machines, and I was actually...
Fight or Kite: Hey now, you’re Brawl Stars, get your game on, go play
A couple of weeks ago, I was at a birthday party when my nephew tugged on my sleeve and asked me if I still...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on new job abilities for Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail
I'm not going to lie: It feels as if Dawntrail kind of leaped into action with the Final Fantasy XIV fandom. The fan festival...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO companies care about game preservation?
With game preservation back in the news thanks to Ubisoft's The Crew criming and the Stop Killing Games initiative, I thought it would be...
The Daily Grind: Has a survival sandbox ever really grabbed your attention?
Survival sandboxes are not MMORPGs, but they are online games, and so they occupy an odd middle space insofar as many of them feature...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is it worth being a zone completionist in LOTRO?
We need to start today's column with one important disclaimer: There's no right or wrong way to play Lord of the Rings Online, only...
The Daily Grind: Will Dune Awakening miss the popularity boost from the movies?
Timing, as they say, is everything -- and time doesn't seem to be on Dune Awakening's side, at least if Funcom wanted to get...
WoW Factor: How World of Warcraft makes you cheer for removing features
Yesterday, MOP's Justin wrote a column about The Elder Scrolls Online that detailed its key virtues. It's a good column, and one of the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest you’ve ever spent working on a specific MMO goal?
The other day, I saw a tweet from Wowhead that quoted Blizzard confirming that it's meant to take a long, long time to collect...
Tamriel Infinium: Four reasons you should stop sleeping on Elder Scrolls Online
The paradox of Elder Scrolls Online is that while it continues to be a Top 5 MMO thanks to the studio muscle and IP...
Vague Patch Notes: The problem with forever adding classes to MMOs
The second expansion for Final Fantasy XI, Chains of Promathia, launched to extremely mixed reception, and there was one overwhelming reason for that lack of...
The Daily Grind: What animal do you want to see in more MMOs?
Pangolins are the weirdest animals that sound like fantasy creatures except they're real animals in the real world. We need more of them in...
Perfect Ten: 10 favorite features that pairs of popular MMOs share
Even though all MMORPGs compete for our time, affection, and -- above all else -- money, it doesn't mean that they can't get along....
The Daily Grind: Are you optimistic or pessimistic about SWTOR’s future?
We are in an interesting season with Star Wars: The Old Republic -- and no, I'm not talking about a PvP or Galactic Conquest...
Choose My Adventure: Elsweyr questing and dragon slaying further solidify my Elder Scrolls Online love
I appreciate that this series of Choose My Adventure columns has started to read an awful lot like I'm being paid off by The...
Second Wind: V Rising’s 1.0 build is a fangtastic revamp of the vampire survival sandbox
It doesn't seem possible that V Rising burst onto the scene almost two years ago, but here we are. I sometimes struggle to get...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the most generous login rewards?
Like probably everyone else paying even a tiny bit of attention to the MMO genre right now, I spent this past weekend logging into...
Second Wind: World of Warcraft’s radically casual new endgame
Today we're going to be dusting off Second Wind, a column where we revisit MMOs of the past. It's an older column, sir, but...
Wisdom of Nym: How to prep for Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail right now
The next expansion for Final Fantasy XIV is not that far off. Sure, we're at the start of May, and it's not launching into...
The Daily Grind: What are the most underrated and underutilized weapon types in MMORPGs?
Before it came to a close this year, I did some Guild Wars 2 Super Adventure Box with my kid, and I swung by...
