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Hunter. Thanks for coming to the column! See you in the next one! What, you want a bit more than that? Sheesh, fine. I'll stop amusing...

We are, at the time of this writing, less than a week out from the second part of the Dragonflight pre-patch for World of...

There's a meme that's gone around the Final Fantasy XIV community sphere for a while, and I'm going to try my best to explain...

When one MMO dies, it forces us to look at the rest of the bunch through the sunglasses of mortality. The finite nature of...

Back in 2014, something happened in the gaming space, something whose impact was so damaging that even almost 10 years later, I realize that...

Something that I've been thinking about a lot over the past few days - for no particular reason - is the idea of classic...

In the past four installments of this pseudo-series, I have done columns on archetypes that exist in every single game. Every game has a...

Here's a fact that is objectively true but feels objectively false: There's no law stating that the best MMO of all time, to date,...

Happy Halloween! Or if you prefer, Happy Scare-Related Holidays featuring the Stylings of Ed Casbar and His Electric Teeth. It'd be the best of...

There are some divisive characters in Final Fantasy XIV, but in some ways Hildibrand Helidor Maximilian Manderville stands above all of them - not...

One of the unsung benefits of maturing MMORPGs is that they generally offer far more options for leveling and adventuring than what was present...

Before I had played World of Warcraft and back in the time when I allowed myself to speculate more freely on what games would...

Itemization is a foundational system in many modern MMOs. After players reach the level cap, item levels largely drive the measurable progression of a...

I know for a fact that I've already made the joke at this point about how Babylon's Fall just straight-up Babylon Fell, but the...

I've gone on record multiple times to state that when you get right down to it, MMOs look pretty darn complicated. There are a...

If you have read my writing a bunch over the years, you have probably observed me mentioning how much I like Final Fantasy Tactics...

Twenty-five years ago my boyfriend, Paul, and I walked into a shop to find a new game to play together. He picked up this...

Let me tell you about my second roommate in college. He was named Kyle, and he was benefiting from the fact that I had...

Everyone knows that people who play Final Fantasy XIV will not shut up about the game's music. This includes me. I will not shut...

Recently, along with what seemed like half the population of the globe, I rolled up a brand-new Death Knight in WoW Classic to take...