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Wisdom of Nym: Where we’re heading in Final Fantasy XIV with patch 3.3 (and beyond)
I've made no real secret of the fact that I don't particularly like Final Fantasy XIV's live letters. Leaving aside the usual issues I...
EVE Evolved: How did World War Bee start and where is it going?
Throughout the almost nine years I've been covering EVE Online in the gaming media, I've been continually amazed at the sheer scale and impact of events that...
WoW Factor: A totally legitimate history of World of Warcraft
Editor's note: We're sorry to report that Eliot appears to have fallen through some sort of wormhole when this column was due. Maybe a...
Chaos Theory: Tomb-raiding The Secret World’s Issue #14 with Funcom
Remember that Indiana Jones-inspired outfit from The Secret World's Issue #6? Today is a great day to dust it off and slip it on because...
Desert Nomad: Avoiding overload in Black Desert
Hello, fellow Black Desert wanderers, and welcome back to another week’s installment of Desert Nomad. If you’ve been reading the column regularly, you may...
Hyperspace Beacon: Dear SWTOR community, keep being passionately casual
Star Wars: The Old Republic community, I listen to your podcasts and read your sites nearly everyday, but I realized that it’s been almost eight...
Wisdom of Nym: Affection for Final Fantasy XIV’s beast tribes
I really like the beast tribes of Final Fantasy XIV. I'm also very happy that we don't get to play them and probably never...
MMO Mechanics: MMORPG expansions vs. sequels
The recent news about EverQuest Next's cancellation has renewed the debate about whether or not MMOs should get sequels, which have given me plenty...
The Game Archaeologist: The Wish that wasn’t
First of all, "wish" is one of those words that ends up looking dang strange the more you focus on it. Wish, wish, wish,...
EverQuesting: First impressions of life after Landmark’s latest wipe
When Daybreak drops a big Landmark patch, it apparently does so quite literally... onto hard, unforgiving concrete... from the top of a tall building....
WoW Factor: The problem with Garrisons isn’t Garrisons
When World of Warcraft rolls away from the inexplicable inclusion of alternate Draenor for good, it will also mean bidding farewell to the elements...
Perfect Ten: Most notable console MMORPGs to date
It used to be that hunting for a console MMORPG was one of the most fruitless endeavors known to gamers. The PC was where...
Jukebox Heroes: MMO tracks to make your heart happy
Music doesn't just speak to emotion; it often evokes it, conjuring it out of thin air with notes and tones and those squiggly lines...
Desert Nomad: Quality of life in the Black Desert
Hello friends, and welcome back to Desert Nomad. After last week’s in-depth look at Black Desert’s cash shop, I decided that this week I would...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2 Gorseval raid boss guide
More than one reader has asked for further Guild Wars 2Â raid guides, and who am I to disappoint? I've been keeping back this Gorseval...
Hyperspace Beacon: The importance of pacing in a SWTOR roleplay event
Last time I talked about roleplaying in spite of game mechanics, I didn’t really get a whole lot of comments. I don’t know whether...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s silent design plans
I do not envy the team behind Final Fantasy XIV in some respects. In many ways, the game is the poster child for developing...
EVE Evolved: Why you should participate in EVE’s Project Discovery
Back at EVE Vegas 2015, CCP Games unveiled an ambitious project that aimed to involve EVE Online players in some really exciting scientific research that could...
Perfect Ten: Why MMORPG studios don’t just reboot their games
Last Friday's WildStar news made me sad. I'm sad because there are two games at war within that title. One of them is a...
EverQuesting: Let EverQuest Next live on in Landmark
Well, then. When it rains, it pours.
After a lengthy drought of EverQuest Next and Landmark news, we finally got some. And not just a...
