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Here's a fact that is objectively true but feels objectively false: There's no law stating that the best MMO of all time, to date,...

Up until very shortly before the launch, I was not planning on buying Final Fantasy XI. I had heard enough horror stories at that...

Once again, Pokemon GO developer Niantic has proven it's more than capable of delivering disappointment with the game's events. The company's infamously poor communication...

Happy Halloween! Or if you prefer, Happy Scare-Related Holidays featuring the Stylings of Ed Casbar and His Electric Teeth. It'd be the best of...

In case you recently returned from a long, time-dilated space voyage and are a little out of it, we're currently in the midst of...

Fast-paced action? Check. Melee focused combat? Excellent. Third-person perspective with a solid amount of room for skillful play? Sign me right up 'cause this...

The polling for last week's Lost Ark Choose My Adventure was pretty clear: stay in the lower levels and focus on the Machinist. I...

Listen, I know that right now, the title of this post has provoked a lot of people to ignore the text I'm typing right...

Those who know me will attest that I am not an old-school MMORPG player by heart. Every time I thought about getting into EverQuest...

There are some divisive characters in Final Fantasy XIV, but in some ways Hildibrand Helidor Maximilian Manderville stands above all of them - not...

Over the summer, a Twitter user replied to one of our Daily Grinds suggesting that a certain MMORPG was poised to "disrupt the MMO...

Every MMO plays a little bit differently. We all know that, just like we all know that goes beyond something as simple as "in...

One of the unsung benefits of maturing MMORPGs is that they generally offer far more options for leveling and adventuring than what was present...

I've always held fleeting love affairs with digital card games. I played a whole lot of Magic Online back in the day, not to...

Before I had played World of Warcraft and back in the time when I allowed myself to speculate more freely on what games would...

I try - try - to live by the rule that if I wouldn't get up early to play games, I shouldn't stay up...

Itemization is a foundational system in many modern MMOs. After players reach the level cap, item levels largely drive the measurable progression of a...

I know for a fact that I've already made the joke at this point about how Babylon's Fall just straight-up Babylon Fell, but the...

It's important to read the room. You might have come up with the funniest conceivable joke about a bear attack, but if you share...

I've gone on record multiple times to state that when you get right down to it, MMOs look pretty darn complicated. There are a...