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I can't say that I've ever encountered truly disturbing and creepy MMO mobs. I think it's by the virtue that they are in an...

Unless it mysteriously shutters between now and Monday, Ultima Online is turning 20 next week. Our Game Archaeologist will surely object to an assertion...

Growing up mostly on consoles, inventory management was not a big part of gaming when I was younger. Downright irrelevant, even; the question was...

I have to admit to being a little on the fence about the whole Legends of Equestria project. On one hand, it looks like...

MMORPG veteran Raph Koster went on a glorious Twitter tear last week, and I'm sure some of you can relate. In response to a...

My husband and I were chatting about the whole Chris-Roberts-is-fed-up-with-trolls-and-date-estimates-that-everyone-knows-aren't-going-to-stick thing from last week when he said something that struck me. "It reminds me...

Pretty soon, we're getting the next tier of anima/zodiac/whatever weapons in Final Fantasy XIV. Every time those show up I find myself thinking that...

In my recent forays into Dungeons and Dragons Online, I was forcibly reminded just how different this game in comparison of your standard MMORPG....

MMO blogger Ethan "Isarii" Macfie made an interesting point in one of his recent Critical Writ videos that I think deserves some amplification and...

One of the things that strikes me with a certain degree of bemusement is how often various bits of story in Guild Wars 2...

As an MMO enthusiast, I have this tendency to cheer games on and be interested in all sorts of titles -- even the ones...

Massively OP reader and commenter Sally Bowls pointed us to a brief post on Axios in which a VR consultant and former Oculus employee opines...

Over the weekend, MMO blogger and Massively OP frequenter Wolfyseyes posted what I thought was a fantastic piece on playing MMOs "wrong." Eschewing other...

Back at launch, I had a lot of affection for playing a Warrior with Alchemy in World of Warcraft. Sure, I missed out on...

I will never be completely sure of it, but I like to think that the "Deep-Toads" of Lord of the Rings Online's Moria are...

During this week's MOP podcast, Justin and I remarked on Funcom's spectacular 2017 financial showing, particularly in light of the fact that its numbers were...

I was having a discussion with a friend the other day about tabletop games and designed sizes. That sounds a bit complex, but it...

It's been a little over a week since World of Warcrafteers (that's a term, right?) jettisoned the world of Azeroth for that of Argus,...

Justin's LOTRO Legendarium article on whether or not Mordor is too difficult struck a chord wth me. "I do not envy devs and their...

I was poking through my Steam library this weekend hunting for an old game I wanted to install to see whether it still worked...