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EVE Fanfest 2015 is coming in a little less than a week, and if you can't attend in person, you do have the option...

We'll begin today's tour of community articles by touching on a rather somber (yet uplifting) note. Pixelkin wrote a great piece on how her...

The last time I was asked where the social aspects of MMOs went, I was pretty directly snarky: They're still there. And it's true, but...

What would you do if you went up against a giant face intent on bringing forth your personal doom? I don't know about you,...

Richard Garriott casts a long shadow in the MMO industry, with Ultima Online serving as the first fully graphical MMO and ushering in the genre...

Welcome back to What Are You Playing, the game where we tell you what we're playing this weekend and you cackle madly with me, for I...

Remember when World of Warcraft launched? I sure do. I remember when the game's developers strapped into a helicopter and broke into the building...

It's been four years since RIFT came out and the Trion Worlds team hosted a party in Boston to celebrate the game, so it's...

Graal Online is not a game that gets much press at all -- nor ever did, sadly. And it's perhaps because of this that...

The death of Leonard Nimoy affects everyone who has ever been engaged in the Star Trek franchise, whether you were a lifelong fan of...

I am going to make a confession: I am terrible about remembering to unsubscribe from games I am no longer playing. Guild Wars 2...

Superhero MMOs really make for some spectacular screenshots, you have to agree. And if you don't agree, you might be on the receiving end...

As someone who's played his fair share of both Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 over the years, I have to confess that I've...

MMOs change. We know that, but we also tend to forget it as well. The games that we play today can often be light-years...

At the start of the week, I journeyed far across the land, venturing into the wilds of the northwest armed only with my wits...

We pay a lot of attention to what we're seeing in MMOs, but have you ever stopped to really process what you're hearing? Sound...

The Daybreak buy-out. Mass layoffs. No more Storybricks. And it might not even be free-to-play! There are plenty of reasons to go all Chicken Little...

I've given dragons a lot of flack over the years for being overused, underwhelming stock MMO bosses when bears deserve top billing. But what...

There's one unfortunate fallout to taking an extended leave from an MMO: You quickly fall behind the curve. As patches and expansions and changes...

Are you looking forward to the Iron Docks quests in World of Warcraft's patch 6.1? Even though they haven't been mentioned in any patch...