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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best combat as of 2024?
Are you a tab-target person or an action-combat or somewhere in between? Maybe you're a rogue and you're about to chime in with turn-based...
MMO Hype Train: My growing obsession with Stars Reach
As much as I respect Raph Koster for all of his passion and pioneering of MMORPGs, I've rarely crossed paths with his games, notably...
Warframe’s Tennobaum gifting event this year benefits Toys for Tots
As it has for the last many years, Warframe studio Digital Extremes has kicked off its Tennobaum event, prompting gift-giving for the benefit of...
End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMORPGs going into 2025
One of the biggest factors when choosing a potential MMO to enjoy is how "healthy" it is. In other words, is the online game...
Final Fantasy XIV community institutes new world first rules after players use add-ons to cheat (again)
For players who claim to have the highest levels of skill in Final Fantasy XIV, it's extremely fascinating that members of this facet of...
Lord of the Rings Online opens up Mines of Moria on the 64-bit progression servers
For Lord of the Rings Online players on the Mordor and Angmar servers, it's 2008 all over again. That's because SSG is unlocking the...
The Daily Grind: How would you have gamed differently in 2024?
Our MOP interns brought me my morning coffee and the dire news that this is, indeed, the last month of the year. For lo!...
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...
