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This past week, Lord of the Rings Online crossed another major milestone in its development as it released its eighth expansion, Fate of Gundabad....

This is going to be a little more ranty than usual. Apologies for that in advance, but... well, we're talking about NFTs. NFTs are...

Why? Why do we die in MMOs and keep coming back to life? Are we in a type of hell defined by endless combat...

In so many ways, One Tamriel reinvented the Elder Scrolls Online experience by freeing players to pursue their own paths through the game. I...

When I wrote up the contents of every MMORPG bestiary, I stuck mostly with concepts rather than specifics, aside from dragons and slimes. There...

For a little bit of context, I have been playing Lord of the Rings Online since its beta and pre-launch period back in 2007....

So for some reason right now, I'm thinking a lot about expansions. It might be because we've got Final Fantasy XIV's next major expansion in...

Not every MMORPG can remain in the spotlight forever. Time has a nasty habit of making us forget titles that used to rile up...

Probably more times than I can count, I have started up new characters in Lord of the Rings Online and gone through those oh-so-familiar...

History! Let's be real here, it's pretty damn boring. No one cares about it, and it all happened beforehand, so why is any of...

Among my friends, I have a reputation for being "that guy who plays all the games." People are constantly asking me how I manage...

In 2002, the Elder Scrolls CRPG franchise took its biggest step forward to date with the release of its third game, Morrowind. While Arena...

Here is my hard-hitting New World review: I haven't played it and don't have any urgent impetus to do so, but maybe it's great. It...

It is, in so many ways, the antithesis of a modern MMORPG. It has crude stick figure drawings instead of lush 3-D graphics. It...

One of the intentions of the Vague Patch Notes column is to have a place to share things that we're going to need to...

I've gone on the record many a time as being deeply suspicious of Kickstarter and crowdfunding when it comes to MMOs. There are reasons...

If you're a music fan, and you probably are since you're a human, you've probably come to grips with the sense that somehow the...

The other night, I found myself inevitably funneled into a mistake. There wasn't much I could do about it, sadly; Guild Wars 2 had decided...

If a genie ever appeared to grant me three wishes, I would not hesitate. I would not be selfish by asking for more wishes...

There are a lot of times when this column is not in any way a ranking, when it is just a list of things...