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Wisdom of Nym: The Final Fantasy XIV Tokyo Fan Festival in review

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Ah, that moment when something is revealed that everyone already knows about. There was no real ambiguity about what the first new job was...

Jukebox Heroes: MMO music for the holidays

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I absolutely adore Christmas music -- in moderation and in season. I keep to strict personal rules not to listen to it before Black...

The Game Archaeologist: Wing Commander Online and Privateer Online

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In late 2012, former Wing Commander developer-slash-movie director Chris Roberts emerged from a decade of obscurity to ask for help to fund his vision...

How Pokemon Go should integrate Pokemon Sun/Moon

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Say what you will about following tradition, but when I first heard more Pokemon would be added to Pokemon GO, the first thing I thought...

Jukebox Heroes: The 2016 Online VGM Awards

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With all of the award madness going on at Massively OP this month, it's the perfect time to unveil the 2016 Online VGM Awards!...

Chaos Theory: The kink in Secret World’s Krampusnacht

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The Secret World, I'm shaking my head at you. I mean, I wasn't expecting anything really for the Krampusnacht holiday. But this? Remember back when...
And on and on and on...

Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the best value at the start of 2017

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About a year ago, I listed off the best free-to-play titles on the market. To the surprise of no one, including me, that turned...

The Soapbox: Asheron’s Call is dead, and Turbine killed it

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You'd think recent news about Asheron's Call 1 and AC2 would be easy to swallow. After all, we'd already been warned that Turbine was becoming a mobile...

Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s 2016 Report Card

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It's that time of year again where we reflect on the year gone by and consider Star Wars: The Old Republic as a whole....

Don’t miss The Game Archaeologist’s histories of Asheron’s Call

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The impending loss of Asheron's Call -- and Asheron's Call 2 again -- hit the MMORPG community pretty hard when the sunsets were announced...
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Wisdom of Nym: Speculating about Final Fantasy XIV in 2017

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We're not there yet, but 2017 already makes me anxious. That's not going to stop it from arriving, though, however much I might want...
True strength is inside. But leveling should really help.

WoW Factor: 2016 in review for World of Warcraft

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Talking about World of Warcraft in 2016 is really different because the game had two different years this year. And unfortunately for anyone trying...

EverQuesting: Frolicking in EverQuest II’s Frostfell 2016

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Oh the real life outside is frightful But Frostfell is so delightful So who needs to work today? Let us play, let us play, let us play! There's...
Boy-howdy, it's a bar.

Perfect Ten: All the MMORPGs coming in 2017

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Right now we are in a strange place in MMORPG history. Following the backlash of WoW clones and several high-profile titles that underperformed, major...

Hyperspace Beacon: Where can SWTOR go from here?

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Have you ever watched a great movie and ever wished that the director would make a sequel but also not make a sequel, all at the...
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2 PvP league changes explained

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Guild Wars 2 fans had a strong inkling that some significant, much-needed changes would be a large part of the PvP League's season 5 launch, and...
It's a house, you see.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s 2016 in review

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If you care about awards - and let's be real, we all do, even if they don't inform our emotional states - you'll notice...

EVE Evolved: The Siege of M-0EE8, the new largest battle in gaming history

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In the political sandbox of EVE Online, colossal player-run military coalitions frequently war over territorial conflicts, in revenge for past transgressions or just for...

How 2016 took Lord of the Rings Online to the gates of Mordor

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As Lord of the Rings Online nears its impressive 10th birthday in April of next year, we see a game that's in many ways...

Chaos Theory: Our guide to The Secret World’s Unseen achievement

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For the last couple of months, I have been focused on trying to acquire The Unseen achievement in The Secret World. Why? It isn't...

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