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Hyperspace Beacon: Four fantastic SWTOR YouTubers you should follow
With Star Wars: The Old Republic approaching its fifth anniversary, the players creating fresh content have shifted. Even the column you’re reading right now...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s class weaknesses and why they matter
The other day, I was browsing the official Final Fantasy XIV forums for a reason I can no longer recall. I am sure it...
LOTRO Legendarium: Nine years in Middle-earth
There are always those gut-check moments in your life when you realize just how much time has passed. For instance, I'm going to look...
Chaos Theory: Making your (cosmetic) mark in The Secret World
When talking about The Secret World, one topic that can't help but come up is the contemporary setting. As far as MMOs go, TSW...
Perfect Ten: What your MMO character type says about you
Every MMO has character classes. Every single one. You might rail against this by pointing out that there are several games out there with...
Hyperspace Beacon: Truly immersing yourself in Star Wars: The Old Republic
I have long been a proponent of roleplaying in MMOs. I’ve often been the roleplayer’s spokesperson on different podcasts and new media broadcasts. I’ve...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV could use some Merit Points
The cross-class system in Final Fantasy XIV is not good. It functions, yes, but the mixing and matching of abilities from other classes is...
Guild Chat: How to reacclimate when coming back to EVE Online
Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, the space in which I get together with the MOP commenters to help a reader in need...
The Game Archaeologist: Myst Online Uru Live
The impact of Myst's launch in 1993 was akin to an atomic bomb going off in the PC gaming world. The leap forward in graphical...
WoW Factor: Content gaps, polish, and the Legion release date
The past few weeks have been pretty well packed, both in a personal and in a professional sense, so it's easy to sort of...
EverQuesting: The gaffe of gating EverQuest II’s content behind a sub
With last week's release of GU100 in EverQuest II, an interesting conversation reared its head again -- a not necessarily flattering one for Daybreak. While...
Perfect Ten: The final minutes of beloved MMORPGs
"This is how the world ends," T S Eliot wrote in his famous poem, "not with a bang, but with a whimper."
That might well...
Jukebox Heroes: City of Heroes’ soundtrack
In the history of MMORPGs, City of Heroes might well go down as having one of the most passionate communities in the genre. People didn't...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s first patch 3.3 live letter
I don't know why, but I was kind of surprised by the sheer volume of discussion about Final Fantasy XIV patch 3.3 in the...
EVE Evolved: Fixing EVE’s New Player Experience (again)
It's become almost a running joke in the comments of articles that EVE Online is a great game to read about but not nearly...
Perfect Ten: Ten City of Heroes systems every MMO should have stolen by now
Today, City of Heroes turns 12Â years old. Except it doesn't; the game shut down three years ago, it never lived until it reached twelve,...
Chaos Theory: The Secret World survival game
I've been thinking. (A dangerous pastime, I know!) And I think I have come up with a solution to a number of the things...
Tamriel Infinium: The Dark Brotherhood of Elder Scrolls Online
If any of you played the Dark Brotherhood quest in Skyrim, you likely thought very little of the Black Sacrament being performed by the...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s deepest dungeon, Palace of the Dead
The funny thing about Final Fantasy XIV, in some ways, is that the game could actually get away for a reasonably long time without...
The Game Archaeologist: Saga of Ryzom
Every so often I get requests to cover such-and-such game in this column. These are often incredibly obscure titles, even to me, and when...
