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Most MMO dungeons are normal songs. You start out and you have a pretty clear picture of the beginning, middle, and end; they don't...

Do you like fighting games? I don't. Let's talk about fighting games. But bear with me because you'll get where this is going. While I...

I was a wide-eyed, naive kid when I first stepped into Ultima Online in 1997, and as it turns out, the developers were too. That's...

Sometimes I know that I may be a bit too old-school because there's a little twitch in my eye whenever I have to refer...

When Radical Heights launched, I was inspired to put together a whole Perfect Ten about why trend-chasing doesn't work for online games. Obviously, my...

Last week, Guild Wars 2's Crystin Cox gave a monetization interview to Gamasutra during which she made one specific argument I wanted to pull...

Making a list of the "biggest" MMOs currently running is always an exercise in frustration. It's easy to put a few things on the...

Massively OP reader Sorrior recently sent in a question about raiding, a topic we haven't discussed in a while. "I have noticed raiding tends to...

It occurs to me that it is very difficult to find MMOs that I have literally never played before in some capacity. There are...

Massively OP reader Steve wants us to revisit the Daily Grind on making death more meaningful without making it more annoying. His letter was long, so...

We've all been there. We're playing our favorite MMORPG and then self-appointed professors of game history start arguing in world chat about firsts --...

I'd like to think that I'm kind of a healthy gamer. While MMOs take a lot of time, the nice thing is that their...

Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...

A while back, you may recall that I posted some of my conversations with anthropomorphized concepts of MMO studios. If you don't remember this,...

Throughout their time in Monster Hunter World, players will have to make a lot of decisions, but none of them are as important -- or...

News of over 30 gaming companies taking a united stand against unfairness and toxicity in online game communities sprung out of GDC 2018 a...

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been enjoying the journey through RIFT Prime, the game's first progression server. Trion Worlds surprised and...

It began with an exploitable glitch. It exploded into an uncontained nightmare of death. It established a meme as strong as Leeroy Jenkins. It...

Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...

With the insane success -- both in terms of popularity and finances -- that Dota and League of Legends spawned, you can easily understand...