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LOTRO Legendarium: Baubles are the stealth feature LOTRO needed
Cast your memory back to last fall when Lord of the Rings Online's current expansion, Legacy of Morgoth, was announced. While there was excitement...
Casually Classic: Why vanilla Classic’s quest system was an industry revolution
In every retrospective covering World of Warcraft's explosive success out of the gate, there's a lot of effort spent trying to put a finger...
Vague Patch Notes: How long do online games truly get to live?
I'm going to start this article by asking a question I don't actually want an answer to: How long has Minecraft been popular?
Objectively there...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs (and MMO-adjacent games) you can play on Nintendo Switch in 2025
In our family, there's an ongoing joke that I was the one who got the Nintendo Switch as a birthday present a few years...
LOTRO Legendarium: How well does Lord of the Rings Online fulfill class fantasy?
It was several World of Warcraft expansions ago -- Legion, most likely -- that the development team at Blizzard really got worked up over...
Vague Patch Notes: Bad MMOs happen – but not because nobody cares
When I first started working at Massively-that-was, I got a bit of a wake-up call pretty early on when I made a joke about...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs that came back from the dead
The fact that I loved Charlotte's Web as a child probably had some influence on my developing brain, but it does mean that I...
Vague Patch Notes: The war of the MMO builds
Talking about your build in an MMORPG can be oddly contentious with people. On the one hand, you are inevitably going to have people...
Warframe of Mind: The day Warframe’s story broke me
I am not someone who is an easy mark for breaking down as a sobbing mess with a sad moment in a story, which is why it surprised me when Warframe made me sob with its storytelling. If you've ever thought it's a narrative-light game that's just space ninjas shooting weird dudes, this is a refutation of that.
MMO Hype Train: Why it’s hard to hold on to hope for Star Citizen
My very first PC was a 386 Pentium that I purchased with my own money in the early '90s. And I dearly loved that...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs with creative idea hooks
There's so much blatant -- and lazy! -- copying in the world of entertainment and arts that anything novel is to be cherished. I've...
LOTRO Legendarium: MOP’s guide to unlocking Lord of the Rings Online content in 2025
While Lord of the Rings Online is a tremendous MMORPG that I would recommend to anyone in a heartbeat, I won't deny that its...
WoW Factor: Ranking all 10 of World of Warcraft’s expansions from worst to best
Now that I've played through the entirety of The War Within, I have some strong opinions where this expansion lies in the grander tapestry...
WoW Factor: The ‘tactical era’ of World of Warcraft dungeons kind of wasn’t
One of the things that I like to do, in both this column and elsewhere, is push back against myths that have grown up...
Vague Patch Notes: No, authenticity does not make video games successful
On December 12th, 2024, The Game Awards had its annual awards show, and the award for Game of the Year was presented by Larian...
Warframe of Mind: Here is how to actually get started in Warframe
Warframe has one of the best tutorial setups of all time. Seriously. The first mission is great, and it immediately throws you into a...
Vague Patch Notes: MMORPG accelerationism is a stupid sucker’s game
The most recent Warframe update starts with a solid chunk of story, and the story that it tells is that of a time loop....
Design Mockument: What should Guild Wars 3 look like?
We know that Guild Wars 3 is happening... probably. I mean, we have no specific details about Guild Wars 3, other than the fact...
Vague Patch Notes: EVE Frontier’s blockchain foundation makes it a worse MMO
It is a mark of pride for our readers that basically none of you are having CCP Games trying to play around with the...
Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s unusual gift of time
When starting a column, I've found it's always best to kick off with gripping subject matter, so let's talk about scheduling!
Earlier this year, I...
