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This entire column came about because our team was discussing World of Warcraft at work and I observed something kind of odd: The Dracthyr...

With all of the MMO releases happening this month, I was banking on the rollout of New World's fresh start servers, LOTRO: Before the...

Dusty dusty, ashy ashy, Crowfall's plane went crashy crashy. Yes, we are now talking about Crowfall very strictly in the past tense. You could...

I have always tended to be skeptical of server merges. Sure, they're sometimes a necessary portion of any game's life cycle, and I would...

First off, I know I'm not the usual writer for Flameseeker Chronicles, and I'm not ousting Colin or Tina from their spot; in fact,...

There are a lot of MMOs out there. How do you know which one of them is the most popular and therefore the best...

I go 'round and 'round with this topic from year to year as the studios change and flux, which probably makes sense since I...

It's finally here! The most memorable, most important part of Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 1 story. The moment we've all been waiting...

When I first took a look into Mist Legacy during a livestream, I was both intrigued and charmed. The game basically looked and played...

Listen, y'all know I love Star Wars Galaxies, and I've been playing on the Legends emu for years. And one of the cool things...

It'd really be nice to visit Ala Mhigo, but I sincerely doubt at this point that we're ever going to go there in Final...

After nearly a year of stopping to smell the roses, I finally made it to level cap in New World shortly before the launch...

Let's talk about rarity systems in MMOs! The first one I remember was Ultima Online's, and it was text-based without colors and hardly counts....

Not everyone likes or wants to do challenging content in MMOs. There's a lot to unpack in what motivates people to take on this...

Hunter. Thanks for coming to the column! See you in the next one! What, you want a bit more than that? Sheesh, fine. I'll stop amusing...

By now, pretty much every MMORPG (especially the fantasy ones) has settled into the comfortable groove of armor classifications. There are heavy-medium-light, or plate-mail-leather-cloth,...

We are, at the time of this writing, less than a week out from the second part of the Dragonflight pre-patch for World of...

Stay with me here for a sec; I swear today's Daily Grind is about MMOs! My husband linked me an article about hummingbirds: Apparently,...

For those who haven't been keeping score, I have. Niantic has now missed two Pokemon Go dev diary months: one in August, which was the...

There's a meme that's gone around the Final Fantasy XIV community sphere for a while, and I'm going to try my best to explain...