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Perfect Ten: 10 things to genuinely like about modern World of Warcraft

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Over the past year, it's been an interesting and illuminating experience to ping-pong back and forth between retail World of Warcraft and WoW Classic....
Oh, right.

Wisdom of Nym: The roots of Final Fantasy XIV’s awful housing problem aren’t clear

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Let's start with a simple sentiment that I think absolutely everyone can get behind. However solid the underlying mechanics for decorating houses may be,...

Choose My Adventure: A slow, steady, and informational search for Artemis in No Man’s Sky

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I think I appreciate why last week’s voting had me follow the Artemis path, as this past week felt a bit like more tutorial...

Interview: Crowfall’s Rhea Shelley on what to expect from Revival’s big class update

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Over the past few weeks, we've been covering update 6.200 arriving in (the now beta) Crowfall. The Revival, as ArtCraft is calling it, introduces...
Still struggling.

Jukebox Heroes: The best of EverQuest’s MIDI soundtrack

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I've always felt that MIDI tunes were to computers what chiptunes were to 8-bit and 16-bit consoles. Before storage media expanded and technology increased...

LOTRO Legendarium: How to make Lord of the Rings Online Classic work

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Twice now this year we have heard from Standing Stone Games' Jeff Libby that, no, a hypothetical LOTRO Classic isn't in the works, nor...
Through the fire and the flames

WoW Factor: Ego, philosophy, and learning the right lessons in MMOs

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Picture the scene, if you will. The year is 2006, and I am working in a library with a number of people whom I...
As in close your mouth and stop talking.

Vague Patch Notes: Managing the MMO message, volume two: How to shut up

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It wasn't so long ago that we talked about managing the message when it comes to fans and the like, but today I want...
Are we good now? Do you love us yet?

Ahead of Bless Unleashed’s PC closed beta, Round 8 Studio says it ‘learned a lot of lessons’ from Bless Online

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Round 8 Studio is just about ready to roll out the Bless Unleashed closed beta for PC: In fact, if you're reading this from...
Set sail, etc.

Perfect Ten: 10 reasons MMOs struggle with underwater content

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In Final Fantasy XIV, players could fly before they could swim. There's no joke there. The game's first expansion added the ability to fly through...

Choose My Adventure: Exploring a new world and new bugs in No Man’s Sky

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My goodness how things have changed. I have had a brief peek at No Man's Sky once before, but only the barest peeks, so being...

Massively Uplifting: Supporting small businesses, grieving through games, and lending helping hands

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Did you go trick-or-treating? There's still time! Here, have a handful of warm fuzzies! Take some full-sized good deeds! October has been full of...
Toss me a cure, will you?

Wisdom of Nym: The implications of Final Fantasy XIV Forspoken

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So we do actually know the title of the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion now, even though we don't. Technically this has not yet been...

Fight or Kite: Spellbreak’s Clash 9v9 mode is absolute mayhem

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For the past few months I’ve been searching for an online game to really pull me in and become a new regular part of...

The Game Archaeologist: Fallen Earth

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I remember back when Fallen Earth first came out, I had some friends who were raving about it and doing everything in their power...

The MMO Cartographer: In the Echo of Echo of Soul

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How much would you pay to play a game that has been shut down as a free-to-play game and then re-released as a buy-to-play...

Massively-on-the-Go: Gotta cash’em all in Pokemon Go

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In the last few editions of the Massively-on-the-Go column, I've been covering the deluge of events and updates Pokemon Go has received quite suddenly...
Get back.

WoW Factor: Shadowlands has a release date… again

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I really thought I had written a column when World of Warcraft properly announced the launch date for Shadowlands. Alas, I apparently did not. But I...

Desert Oasis: Is Black Desert’s lore actually a time-travel narrative?

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In the last edition of Desert Oasis, I wrote about an absolutely dismal week in Black Desert that ultimately ended with my taking a...
But bigger!

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that you can play on the Nintendo Switch

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Nintendo hasn't held the title of "serious gamer console" in a while, with specs that lack the sheer graphical and processing muscles of the...

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