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Look, memes, there's... there's no easy way to say this, but I think we're done. We've had some really good times. The whole "All...

Mounts might have once been a practical mode of transportation and a not-so-transparent speed buff for slow-moving MMO characters. Nowadays it's more about personal...

Just when you thought the Greed Monger drama was so 2015, now it's back. The crowdfunded MMO sandbox appeared to have gone belly-up last year...

Development schedules are tricky things. From the outside it's easy to look at them as promises, contracts made between players and developers, but in...

Last week, MMO designer Raph Koster made a Twitter comment that's stuck in my mind: https://twitter.com/raphkoster/status/682380531934322688 Hell yes it has. It's getting mainstream and indie attention left...

Over the winter holidays, we wrote about game analytics consulting firm Quantic Foundry, which has published what it calls its "Gamer Motivation Model" --...

We've finally left 2015 behind. And while it is perfectly natural to want to glance back in the rearview mirror over the last 12...

If you've been waiting over the last week for Valve to approve Divergence Online for its inevitable Steam early access release, wait no longer:...

With virtual reality headsets hitting the market, a hot topic in the MMO community has been over when we'll be seeing VR merge with...

Just the other day we were discussing in the office the differences between Black Desert and Blade & Soul, and I said that I...

While the booing section of the internet might get loud and almost suffocating at times, I believe that there's quite the large crowd of...

Still waiting for Valve to approve Divergence Online for its inevitable Steam early access release? Stained Glass Llama's Ethan Casner is too. While we...

The dawn of a new year is a great time for many people to hit a tiny reset button on life. I’m doing that personally....

When the MMORPG genre was young, I spent a lot of time inside of MMORPGs not doing much besides standing or sitting around and...

Have you ever been curious about how different the Final Fantasy XIV experience is on its native Japanese servers? One English-speaking player decided to...

Guild Wars 2 isn't the only game to have recently been smacked with a spate of raiding guild drama: The normally unassuming MMO themepark...

On Friday, I took a look at the classes, combat, and tricky mechanics of upcoming sandboxy Korean-import Black Desert's first western closed beta test....

Sci-fi sandbox Divergence Online is on the way to Steam's early access program -- at least, it will be when someone at Valve wakes...

Gear up, mercenaries: Escape from Tarkov has started taking preorders for four different game packages, even though the title hasn't gone into testing yet. The...

Be they sandbox or themeparks, plenty of MMORPGs have hopped on the two-faction PvP bandwagon. A player rolls up on the red side or blue side at character...