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EverQuest II’s Toil and Trouble update brews up unholy dungeon runs
A dark and twisted summer treat arrived for EverQuest II players this week in the form of Toil and Trouble update. At the core...
Massively Overthinking: What’s your favorite type of MMORPG raid?
Raiding is one of those very simple MMO concepts that has somehow become a contentious one in the broader discourse. A "raid" in MMO...
Into the Super-verse: First impressions of Ship of Heroes’ mission beta
With other City of Heroes spiritual successors lagging behind in development, the weight of our hope for the future of superhero MMOs lays upon...
The Game Archaeologist: Defining the eras of MMORPG history
With MMO history stretching back to the early 1980s (and even before), this genre has accumulated a whole lot of history over the years....
For Science: Men roll more female characters than women roll male toons, new survey shows
Do you play MMO characters who reflect your gender in real life? Apparently, the answer depends a bit on which gender and how old...
Perfect Ten: The top 10 non-traditional MMO fantasy races
Elves. Dwarves. Humans. Halflings. Gnomes. Hobbits. Dark elves. High elves. Half-elves. Wood elves. Keebler elves. Elvish impersonators.
Are you as tired as I am of...
EverQuest II plots Toil and Trouble for next week, teases dinosaur/centaur expansion
Daybreak's Jenn Chan has surfaced with a letter to the EverQuest II community this week that spills a few beans on the game's next...
EverQuest II ushers in Tinkerfest 2021, EverQuest releases new Overseer packs
Summer is never dull in Norrath, and no matter what MMO you pick, there's something happening.
Over in EverQuest II, Norrath is in the grips...
GDC 2021: Star Wars Galaxies was a complex game of corporate greed and fan love
It was an MMO built in about three years, with a miserable launch, a depressing churn rate, and the most infamous patch in all...
WoW Factor: No king rules forever
World of Warcraft patch 9.1 has been out for less than a month, and it is a bad time to be a fan of...
One Shots: A back warmer for cramps
When you're rocking some bad back pain or a spite of cramps, it certainly helps to have something warm to rest against. Loosens up...
Massively Overthinking: The curious cycle of MMO refunds, tutorials, and reviews
MOP reader Steve recently posed us an intriguing question about the state of tutorials in MMOs and other games - and how those tutorials'...
EverQuest II deploys a multi-faceted patch of fixes
Sometimes you just need to make a boss's stare less smoldering. Other times you need to make sure that a Necromancer's pet is referred...
The Daily Grind: If you could fight only one mob type in MMOs forever, what would it be?
Undead for me. I can probably chalk this up to my earliest MMORPGs, Ultima Online and EverQuest. Both had really solid undead mobs. Ultima Online...
Perfect Ten: Worst MMO expansion names of all time
Back when Daybreak announced that EverQuest's 19th expansion would be titled Rain of Fear, I instantly found myself tripping over the name. I shouldn't...
LOTRO Legendarium: A tale of two progression servers
Truly, this is a momentous week in the history of Lord of the Rings Online, if for nothing else than the addition of two...
Massively Overthinking: What’s your favorite MMO house of all time?
You folks know I love MMO housing systems, and in fact, we've been crowning the MMOs with the best housing systems for years. But...
EverQuest and EverQuest II up experience, faction movement, and rare spawn rates for a week of summer
It's definitely summertime! The sun is shining (oh gosh is it ever shining), birds are singing, and EverQuest II and EverQuest are going to give...
The Game Archaeologist: Anarchy Online, from launch to now
July 27th 2001. On this date, Funcom pulled the trigger on Anarchy Online, launching it in North America with a planned release in Europe a...
Massively Overthinking: What class is missing from your favorite MMO?
I've been obsessed with Albion Online the last few weeks - it really feels so much like Ultima Online to me. Ultima Online but...
