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Lord of the Rings Online has posed an interesting conundrum for MMO players with its perhaps overly generous anniversary gifts. Tucked in among all...

It's judgment day for Niantic as Pokemon Go's 2022 Community Day has now come and gone. As we'd noted, the studio was pushing a...

When you greatly love a game, franchise, or IP, there's nothing so heartwarming as to see it get a renaissance. In a world where...

The most interesting task that Final Fantasy XIV had set for itself with the launch of patch 6.1 was storyline-related, let's be realistic. Sure, there...

I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I hate deleting MMO toons, even when I'm positive I'm never going to play them ever...

April 29th will mark the release of Nintendo Switch Sports, a spiritual sequel to the popular Wii Sports series. The big kicker here is that it's...

Over the course of several years working in this industry, I have grown more willing to believe some studios and less willing to believe...

I don't think that cheeky developers can resist trolling players in the nicest of ways every once in a while. Personally, I find it...

One of the aspects that I love about MMOs is just how dang fun the build-up to launch can be. I know this period...

Now that we're firmly entrenched in the year of High Isle and the legacy of the Bretons, it almost seems archaic to jump back...

Hello Games just keeps on proving itself over and over again. That's been the overall reaction whenever No Man's Sky makes an update from...

I bought my very first open-world house in an MMORPG as a teenager in 1997. A couple of friends and I decided to pool...

I was recently looking at an article claiming that Pikmin Bloom remains great six months after release and found I couldn't agree less. While I'm admittedly...

I’ve always been somewhat enamored with the concept of hacking. For a bit of a layman in terms of that world, the idea of...

While I have to admit that my playtime in Lost Ark has waned a bit in light of a bunch of other games capturing...

All right, this is... actually just hilarious to me. Like, seriously, I caught this particular detail after I'd already finished writing my initial reaction...

Big updates! They're big (yeah, yeah, yeah)! They're not small (no, no, no)! They mean things are going to be changing in your MMO...

Mixing gaming and politics is rough. Think back to the Blitzchung fiasco for Blizzard back in 2019. Or when Daybreak was (and then wasn’t)...

First things first, I want to clarify something: This is being dubbed an early response to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight because... well, it's a new...

Where were you nine years ago? I don't know about you, but my life looked very different in 2013 when Guild Wars 2 first...