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The Daily Grind: Do you worry more or less about an MMO when it runs a sale or free trial?
This Daily Grind was technically inspired by Diablo IV, but it could really apply to lots of online games. Blizzard just finished up with...
Embers Adrift counts off two years of updates ahead of its second anniversary
Embers Adrift is about to celebrate two years of operation, and while there are likely going to be in-game celebrations or other events to...
One Shots: And suddenly, the bushes rustled
What weird and wild adventures is Utakata up to in Blade and Soul this week? Apparently it involves staying up way past a little one's...
LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO’s five least-played classes – and why you should play them
In gaming, I'm often fascinated by "paths less traveled." Maybe it's a leveling expansion everyone ignores, a race that's never picked for a kickball...
WRUP: The best movies of the 1990s recorded off television onto overused videocassette review edition
A League of Their Own: After 15 minutes of footage from Hard Copy discussing the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan incident, this movie begins with a...
The Daily Grind: What’s your preferred MMO combat playstyle (as opposed to class or role)?
MMO classes don't merely have to be divided into the traditional tank/DPS/healer categories. There are plenty of other ways to separate classes and even...
Elder Scrolls Online readies a Gold Road-only event for next week
Elder Scrolls Online is getting a jump on the fall season with a new event that's heading our way next week. The Fallen Leaves...
Wizard battle royale Spellbreak survives as a free version after Blizzard buyout
When you're a game that's been served a death sentence, you'll take a win anywhere you can get it. Spellbreak was a wizard-themed battle...
The Daily Grind: What are the best ways to recapture inactive MMO players?
Today's Daily Grind is inspired directly by the "you've been touching too much grass" meme. Obviously, the powers that be want us back scrolling...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO memories we never want to repeat
A random quote I saw buried in the comments on the MMORPG subreddit a while ago really hit hard. Extra_Midnight wrote,
"Some of my most...
Ubisoft’s ‘XDefiant is not dying’ t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt
If you had forgotten all about Ubisoft's newish shooter XDefiant, then you're not alone. It actually launched back in May and apparently did fine,...
One of Elite Dangerous’ most important star systems is currently under Thargoid attack
Followers of the Thargoid War in Elite: Dangerous likely already assumed some form of counterattack from the alien force was coming, particularly in the...
Global Chat: The War Within continues WoW’s upward trend
We'll kick off this week's tour of MMO blogs with a diverse first impressions piece of The War Within by Kaylriene, who praises the...
EA says it won’t replace The Sims 4 with a sequel as it preps fall playtest for multiplayer Project Rene
The fate of The Sims franchise in the last few years has been a little bit messy: EA has been working on what it...
The Daily Grind: What MMO do you see yourself playing five years from now?
Hey all, it's September 2029! We're just a few months away from the new decade, and against all odds, we're alive and still playing...
War Thunder helicopters now display visual damage thanks to Dance of Dragons
Since it's an odd week of the year, War Thunder and its community isn't leaking any highly classified military schematics. Instead, to fill the time,...
Choose My Adventure: Guided adventure, multiplayer hijinks, and pantslessness in Once Human
I'm going to be honest, I'm a bit surprised at just how on-rails Once Human is so far. Chalk that up to another assumption...
The Daily Grind: Are you immune to any specific MMORPG features or tricks?
One of my favorite MOP readers, Aldristavan, recently joked about his new life skill: being immune to big ol' cute minipet eyes.
"Something that I...
Tree of Savior’s new Brazilian server sees ’40-fold ping improvement’
Despite a rocky start this past August, Tree of Savior's new Brazilian server Kepa is proving to be a boon to the growing South...
Sci-fi strategy MMO OGame readies achievements, seasons, and rankings for its 22nd anniversary in October
While we don't report on it very often, the browser and mobile sci-fi strategy MMO OGame will be marking its 22nd year of operation...