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EverChaosing: Adapting Pokemon Go for The Secret World and EverQuest II
So there's this thing right now. It's kind of a craze. Maybe you've heard of it? Pokemon Go? Yeah, I thought so. The thing...
Perfect Ten: Older PC games that would make for great MMOs
Video games had a huge impact on my childhood and teenage years, imprinting themselves onto my psyche for all of the struggles and elation...
The Soapbox: Calling an MMO launch a launch
It's launch.
Can we collectively accept that? Marketing, developers, and players alike? Launch is launch. When your game launches, it has launched. If I can...
MMO Mechanics: Creating engaging crafting mechanics
I'm currently bogged down in an over-the-shoulder crafting blur, vicariously depleting gold and recommending several YouTube-approved crazy material gathering runs as I get my...
Jukebox Heroes: MMO tunes from the 1990s
I'll admit that I have a particular fondness for older video game music. I still scour the archives of NES and Genesis libraries for...
WoW Factor: Titanforged items and content relevance
If you've missed discussion of it elsewhere (including on this here site, even), World of Warcraft is rolling out a new system for item...
EverQuesting: A guide to running EverQuest II Heritage Quests efficiently
Have you experienced EverQuest II's Heritage Quests? If not, then you haven't truly experienced EQII! While basically all MMORPGs have level grinds and dungeons,...
Perfect Ten: The most exciting MMO developments yet to come in 2016
In the annals of MMORPG history, 2016 might well go down as a very odd duck of a year. While on the surface it...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s mid-term report card scored by Bartle’s taxonomy
Well, BioWare, it’s half-way through the year. It’s time to look at how you’ve done with Star Wars: The Old Republic and what can...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2 Season 3 Predictions
If I've read the words "content drought" under your name in the comments section recently, you will be as delighted as I am to...
Wisdom of Nym: The missteps of Final Fantasy XIV’s main scenario through Heavensward
There are going to be spoilers in this column. Let's make this entirely clear. If you read this column without having finished up Final...
EVE Evolved: What went wrong with the Shadow of the Serpent event?
Last week's EVE Online patch added the massive Shadow of the Serpent event, a game-wide storyline arc that pits players against the Serpentis and Angel...
The Game Archaeologist: Eight launch trailers from classic MMOs
When YouTube first became a thing, I dismissed it as a site that was mostly preoccupied with people talking into cameras in an attempt...
Perfect Ten: The 10 components of a ‘fair’ MMO PvP fight
I spend a lot of my time thinking about MMO PvP. You might not realize it, but I'm actually a really big fan of...
Chaos Theory: Loot bags and golems galore for The Secret World’s fourth birthday
There may have been moments over the past 12 months when fans feared this time would never come, but it has: Happy fourth birthday, The Secret World!
It's...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s clear message of indifference for its most loyal players
I don't like to rant. I like my opinions to be measured and thoughtful. But sometimes I need to cut loose and let something...
Wisdom of Nym: The fullness of Final Fantasy XIV until October
We know now that patch 3.35 and the Deep Dungeon will be landing on July 19th. That's a little bit later than I had...
Guild Chat: Successfully merging MMORPG guilds
Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column in which we gather together to help a reader in need solve his or her guild-related quandary....
The Game Archaeologist: Dark Age of Camelot
Today, we take a trip to England, but not the England of our timeline. No, this is the England-That-Could-Have-Been, the England of King Arthur,...
WoW Factor: The hope I have for Legion
Every week, in Final Fantasy XI, the three main player nations are competing in a form of passive PvP known as conquest. The nation...
