community
Choose My Adventure: Starting life as a Jem’Hadar in Star Trek Online
So, first thing's first: I wasn't really able to spend excessive time in Star Trek Online this weekend. It was not just a holiday...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever had a dream about MMORPGs?
Today's Daily Grind is inspired by two bits from social media. First, MOP's Justin recently joked on the podcast that describing MMO boss battles is...
The Daily Grind: Have you let go of any old MMORPG obsessions?
Earlier this year, when City of Heroes Homecoming first scored a license to operate from NCsoft, my kid fell hard into econ PvP over...
The MOP Up: New World’s deadly laser turkey
"What started as an office joke about a giant turkey with laser eyes turned into an actual world boss when one of our AI...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO starts Dual Destiny season with siren songs
Pokemon Go's winter seasonal update, Dual Destiny, has at least frontloaded some of the details on what would normally be mystery events, so I'm...
One Shots: The billiards of the universe
The irony of going on lengthy adventures to exotic settings in MMOs is that your character usually doesn't bring a smartphone to take pictures...
WRUP: Auditioning replacement Eliots edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about what we do for Thanksgiving aka Thursday.
The Daily Grind: What MMO meme should be retired in 2024?
Jumping back into WoW Classic with the new fresh start servers has been quite the amazing (and nostalgic!) experience. But I was taken aback...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best depiction of pirates?
I realize that pirates are out of fashion nowadays, but I still really like the motif. I mean, not real pirates; they're scary and...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MOP stories of 2024
As you're reading this, it's Thanksgiving night, and the end-of-the-year insanity is about to begin. You're going to be treated to a whole ton...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s Wild Area was a resource sink event
Advertising Pokemon Go's Wild Area last weekend as being on the same level as Go Fest or the Go Tours was another major misstep for...
Trove’s Friendsgiving heaps new offerings for this year’s Turkeytopia event
With the rise of Friendsgiving gatherings over the recent years, it's no surprise that community-oriented Trove has adopted this concept for its own virtual...
Perfect Ten: Lessons from unsuccessful MMORPGs that I wish designers would learn
I have been writing about this genre for far too long now and seen far too many games with genuinely good elements completely fail...
The Daily Grind: What is the next generation of MMO gamers seeking?
It's been a privilege to be part of a team tracking the course of MMO news for a decade-and-a-half now. I've often said that...
Choose My Adventure: Red Dead Online is a multiplayer buried treasure
There's nothing quite as bad in gaming as wasted potential. There are no shortage of MMOs, MMORPGs, and multiplayer games that reached for the...
Casually Classic: WoW Classic Classic is more than just another hit of nostalgia
Out of all of the things that I didn't expect to be on my 2024 MMO bingo sheet was "Getting absolutely sucked into a...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs have pointless – but fun – PvP?
Eliot's article about World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary festivities reminded me of something dumb I loved to do back in the olden days of...
Tarisland’s top raids are seeing a completion rate under 20 percent, Tencent says
Tencent is plunging onward with Tarisland development: Last week, we got an abbreviated roadmap consisting of, well, December its winter event layout, but today,...
The Daily Grind: Should MMORPGs get back to offering roleplaying-enforced servers?
If you have been playing MMORPGs a long time, you probably remember that in the long long ago, it was super common for games...
One Shots: The eternal rambler
Sometimes don't you wish that your character had a "out with it" emote that would make NPCs cut down on their rambling speeches and...
