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The Game Archeologist: Halo Universe

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Since its debut on Xbox back in 2001, the Halo franchise has been a massive powerhouse and a mainstay for shooter fans. To date,...
SO many things.

Jukebox Heroes: RuneScape’s orchestral album

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I have been saying for years that RuneScape has a truly impressive yet overlooked body of video game music. To my knowledge, it's the...
Nothing else has worked.

WoW Factor: The dumb World of Warcraft stuff from BlizzCon

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It's easy to just think of this year's BlizzCon as having dumb stuff on display for Diablo, but let's be real here - there were...

EverQuesting: EverQuest II’s 14th anniversary retrospective, from Columbus Nova to Chaos Descending

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During last year's anniversary retrospective for EverQuest II I dared to say things were too quiet. Big mistake! Why would I tempt fate like...
Yeah, we're doing this.

Epic MMO Battles of History: World of Warcraft’s Wrath of the Lich King vs. Legion

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It was just a couple of days ago when Bree was sharing that I felt like Wrath of the Lich King was the best...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: MMOs that aimed at the future… and missed

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The future is a weird place. It's similar to the present, but it has a very different outlook on the world, and it wants...

The Survivalist: Conan Exiles’ Picts, pets, and pokey arrows

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In a world where no game is perfect, I continue to be pleased with the progress Conan Exiles keeps making. I'm also happy that...
Here comes trouble.

Wisdom of Nym: How many antagonistic sides do we have in Final Fantasy XIV?

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One of my favorite moments from Order of the Stick (which is excellent anyhow) is when one of the villains makes it clear to...
It only became real very recently.

BlizzCon 2018: What the heck happened?

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Every year, I cover BlizzCon for Massively Overpowered. This is not new information; you've all seen my liveblogs running every year for quite some...

LOTRO Legendarium: Six ways to prep for legendary servers

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With progression servers on the way for... sometime... this month, many players (myself included) are planning out their brand-new adventures through Middle-earth. There's certainly...
Such meaning.

Vague Patch Notes: The meaning of ‘meaningful’ in MMORPGs

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Ironically, the term "meaningful" has a long history of not meaning much of anything with MMOs. Back in 2015 I did a Perfect Ten about...

Working As Intended: The gamification of the workification of games

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Last weekend, my husband made the bold choice to let our young son play The Stanley Parable. I am not entirely sure the kid...

Hyperspace Beacon: Five tools to up your roleplay game in SWTOR

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As you all know, I like to roleplay in Star Wars: The Old Republic. In fact, creating characters and creating struggles for them within...
This plan sure worked!

WoW Factor: When long-term progress in World of Warcraft isn’t

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"When even the vanishingly tiny playerbase of your game that you've been catering to for years is getting tired... what's going to happen to your game?"

Perfect Ten: Compliments to MMOs I don’t play

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Back in September, Bree posed a Daily Grind question that I thought was genuinely intriguing. You know, for once. Just kidding, Bree! She asked...

Wings Over Atreia: Awakened Legacy could be Aion’s rebirth

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You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of Aion, the facts of Aion! There's...
What are we even doing here?

Wisdom of Nym: How we missed storyline overload in Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood

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One of the things that I mentioned back when I was reviewing Heavensward in its totality was that for all the praise I give...

EVE Evolved: Hands-on with EVE Online FPS Project Nova

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Cast your mind back to 2011 and you'll probably remember the insane hype that was building for DUST 514, CCP Games' ambitious console MMOFPS...

LOTRO Legendarium: Wistmead surprises and progression servers

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What a week this has been! Originally I was all gung-ho to talk about nothing else than all of the new Halloween content that...

Wings Over Atreia: Awakened Legacy is Aion’s NGE gut punch

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Woah! WOA is back! It's only fitting: Wings Over Atreia debuted when Aion launched as a new game, and now it is back for...

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