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"Nothing is ever truly free," my grizzled Uncle Trigger once told me. "So you got to pay for that there air! Pony up, boy!" While...

It's time to talk about queues to log in to a game, and you know what game we have to talk about in this...

MMO sunsets can be weird. I am never happy when a game that people love goes away. It always represents a lot of lost...

Last week in The Game Archaeologist, we traced the history of Ultima Online’s origin, development, and testing -- not to mention one pesky in-game...

I've been covering MMOs professionally for about 13 years now. That's a long while. And it's kind of strange to me that I've been...

A thought occurred to me the other day regarding World of Warcraft and the way that it deformed the MMO industry: People who are...

Is there anything more agonizing to an MMO fan than to get excited about a promising title and then see that title cancelled before...

To start this off, I want you to summon up a feeling. I want you think back to the first time you can remember...

People are over the moon about the Island Sanctuaries added in the most recent update to Final Fantasy XIV, and I entirely include myself...

Everyone makes mistakes, and that's all right. That's not necessarily a big deal. Yes, this is true when it comes to MMO studios too....

Time sure flies when you're slaying Elder Dragons, doesn't it? Is it really possible that it has been a decade since our characters first...

World of Warcraft has gone harder on its raiding focus in recent years in a lot of ways, starting with Warlords of Draenor and...

The newest member of the Big Five in the MMO space released in the west back in 2015, which was seven years ago now....

Back in November of 2004, I was a wide-eyed 28-year-old bachelor who had just met his future wife and was generally leery about MMOs...

There is certainly no end to the topics to discuss about Lord of the Rings Online, but sometimes I want to take a break...

So there's this funny persistent thing that goes around when it comes to talent trees in World of Warcraft. A certain coalition of players...

So the other day I read perhaps the worst Tower of Fantasy review I could have possibly read. It was most certainly not the...

The fact that we currently have a Big Five in the MMO space is a big change from not so long ago, when the...

When we look at the early days of online computer gaming, it shouldn't be a surprise that the geeky crowd that was working on...

There's a bit of cognitive disconnect that I notice is still tripping up some particular fans of World of Warcraft even at this point....