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The Daily Grind: What if World of Warcraft never launched?
It is 2003, and after several years of development and hype, Blizzard Entertainment sizes up its World of Warcraft project. The studio decides that...
Conan Exiles explains its latest patch delay, but it should be out this week
Yes, there's a patch coming for Conan Exiles, but it's increasingly feeling like Zeno's Patch. Each time it gets halfway down the road to...
Choose My Adventure: Dungeon diving in The Elder Scrolls Online
Pretty much everything I've done in The Elder Scrolls Online has been a delight, so I was going in to my chosen task for...
ArenaNet has revivified classic Guild Wars’ support website, vows support for ‘years to come’
So here's an interesting tidbit we missed in the hubbub of last week: ArenaNet has resurrected its support site for classic Guild Wars.
"In an...
The Daily Grind: What MMO could really use a true fresh start server?
We talk a lot about progression servers and vanilla servers, branches of MMOs that use different rulesets, either new or old - we even...
Apex Legends: 16k bans, content cadence, mode leaks, and Apex Construct’s not-so-lucky break
EA's surprise hit Apex Legends hasn't slowed down since its stealth launch earlier this month, in spite of worth contenders in the field -...
The Daily Grind: Are you concerned about the future of World of Warcraft?
Given the week that Activision-Blizzard just had - capping off a record financial year by haphazardly firing 800 employees, literally provoking union groups to...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online has a gambling problem
The gambling debate has kicked off again in EVE Online, this time in response to the annual Guardian's Gala event that's currently running throughout...
Crowfall’s Raph Koster has some advice for community managers
Community management may be one potential path to making inroads at a development studio, but before you take that job, you'd best heed the...
One Shots: Your moment of zen
When life -- and even gaming -- gets too hectic, where do you retreat to in order to find some peace and quiet? We...
The Daily Grind: What are the moments in MMOs that make you feel powerful?
You know, for all the fun of going back and curbstomping low-level enemies, that doesn't make me feel powerful in an MMO. What makes...
Blade & Soul loses Producer Jonathan Lien
Rabbit Man is sad today because Rabbit Man heard the news that Jonathan Lien is leaving his post as producer for Blade and Soul.
"I...
WRUP: The song of Demon Joe who thought an axe was a sword edition
Sit down my friends, and hear a tale of a demon they named Joe,
It's a lame name for a demon, I think, but that's...
The Daily Grind: When have you bumped into MMOs in real life?
The other day I was driving through my neighborhood and I happened to look at a cross-street that read WESTFALL. And, being the former...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s mysterious Hrothgar text has no good explanation
It was just supposed to be a minor patch for Final Fantasy XIV and it's touched off a huge flurry of confusion. Someone in the...
The Daily Grind: How much does nostalgia drive your MMO play?
Blogger and MOP reader Serrenity recently pointed us to a Kotaku article on the subject of video game nostalgia. Author Alyse Knorr maintains that...
Massively Overthinking: Showing up vs. showing off in MMOs
Last week's Daily Grind about ambient sociability got a lot of MMO gamers talking about that desire to have people around, even if they...
Elder Scrolls Online: You could dive into Wrathstone’s dungeons, or you could just sleep on a bridge
ZeniMax has a new video up on social media today zeroing in on the dungeon content coming in Elder Scrolls Online's Wrathstone DLC later...
Blizzard devs characterize layoffs as a ‘bloodbath’ as pro-unionization effort calls for Bobby Kotick’s resignation
A day after Activision-Blizzard announced record earnings and began laying off a reported 800 people, we're finally getting a clearer picture of the full...
EVE Online’s Alliance Tournament is taking a hiatus for 2019
2019 is looking to be a year of big changes for EVE Online's usual yearly events: On top of the Reykjavik Fanfest being replaced...