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When gamers are caught in the crossfire of international politics, bad things can happen. Due to US sanctions against Russia, World of Warcraft and Diablo...

Is it too easy to forget that MMOs, like all video games, are made by people just like you and I? Belghast over at...

For some reason it feels like we've been writing about Minsc and Boo for months. In any case, I guess we haven't been writing...

If you've missed out on grouping with the MassivelyOP Minions because of time zones, today is your lucky day! MJ is introducing a European...

You can argue all you want over the definition of pay-to-win, but no one really likes the idea of a free-to-play game in which...

Crowfall's siege mechanics are on display today in a new video highlighting the Artcraft Entertainment's current plans for taking on player-controlled cities. The video...

It's hard to be a Sylvari in Guild Wars 2 at the moment. After all, the plant people have an undeniable tie to the...

When the primary beta process for an upcoming MMO is taking place in another region and language, it's often difficult to understand how the...

A couple of weeks ago in Massively Overthinking, we talked about making a game sticky without vertical progression. Although the question was a bit...

If you came into RIFT late in its life cycle, you missed Hammerknell. If you weren't raiding when Hammerknell was super relevant to the...

Vanguard's diplomacy system was always one of the most-talked about features of that late fantasy title, using a card minigame to simulate conversational conflict...

Last September, a Guild Wars 2 player shared a story about his departed wife. She died from complications during the birth of the couple's...

I was basically still a kid when I first started playing MMOs, and my first, of course, was the wild west of the newly...

Would you like to hunt whales in Black Desert? No, not the big cash shop spenders, but actual whales in the ocean and stuff....

Dupers -- players who take advantage of exploits to duplicate rare items in-game in order to sell them -- can be a type of...

There's no doubt that the MOBA genre is a behemoth in the industry right now, with titles like League of Legends and DOTA 2...

Looking forward to paying for your World of Warcraft subscription with in-game gold? You don't have long to wait at all; the WoW Token...

It happened, just as expected. A day after I posted a lengthy column discussing Final Fantasy XIV's last big pre-expansion patch, that patch dropped, and...

The past few years have seen a resurgence of support for sandbox MMOs, both of the trying-to-be-minecraft creative kind and the hardcore nuke-it-from orbit...

Good Blizzard sales don't come around too often, so if you've been holding off on buying World of Warcraft or its most recent expansion,...