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EVE Vegas 2018 is this weekend: Here’s what to expect from the show
It's that time of year again when internet spaceship nerds descend on Las Vegas to get incredibly drunk find out what the future holds...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that desperately need proper player housing
Here's something pretty encouraging to me: When I sat down to work on an article listing MMOs that really could use but lacked proper...
Wisdom of Nym: Rewards in Final Fantasy XIV and what they’re worth
I saw someone asking the other day what the "point" was to the Doman Reconstruction effort in Final Fantasy XIV. What's the big reward?...
EVE Evolved: Wars are literally ruining EVE Online
EVE Online is fundamentally about real conflict between players on massive scales, and yet I would venture to say that wars are literally ruining...
Jukebox Heroes: Entropia Universe’s soundtrack
Admittedly, not a lot of us think about Entropia Universe. Like, at all. Probably a lot of us don't even consider it an MMO...
The Game Archaeologist: The Death of City of Heroes
August 31st, 2012, was a Friday like any other. City of Heroes players were psyched for the upcoming Issue 24, which Paragon Studios had...
Chaos Theory: Secret World Legend’s 2018 Samhain is music to my ears
It's the most wonderful time of the year
With radios playing
and ghost that are slaying the ones who come near
It's the most wonderful time of...
Here’s a run-down of everything coming to SWTOR in the next month and a half
There is no eloquent way to explain everything that is coming to Star Wars: The Old Republic from now until December. So let's just throw...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMO systems that encourage alts
Here's how much I like having alts: I have alts in Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI. Two games which are built on...
EverQuesting: A guide to EverQuest II’s expansion prelude event, Against the Elements
Sometimes it feels like forever before the next expansion comes -- even when it's regular every year! That's what this year has been like...
Wisdom of Nym: What can datamining tell us about the next Final Fantasy XIV job?
The datamining for Final Fantasy XIV is difficult, because the game is remarkably spare when it comes to pointers for the future. Most datamining...
Leaderboard: Are you buying a BlizzCon virtual ticket this year, and is WoW Classic the reason?
Oof, some people really, really do not like jokes about BlizzCon, as I found out Sunday when my throwaway headline about paying Blizzard 50...
Hyperspace Beacon: First impressions of SWTOR’s new Huttball map
Yesterday, Star Wars: The Old Republic released its latest update called Fame and Fortune. I'm not exactly sure why BioWare called it "Fame and...
Perfect Ten: Failed MMOs that could have succeeded with more love
Hindsight is 20/20. Unless you're blind in one eye from nostalgia, in which case hindsight is 0/20. In any case, you understand that it's...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Deep-diving Guild Wars 2’s A Star to Guide Us, part one
Season 4 of Guild Wars 2Â Living World has been a solid addition to the episodic narrative that drives the game's content development in between...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s leaks and the seduction of partial information
I'm going to start off with a statement that should be fairly uncontroversial but could be otherwise and refer back to it: At this...
EVE Evolved: The rookie’s guide to fitting ships in EVE Online
The ship fitting system is one of EVE Online's most powerful and useful features, but it comes with a pretty steep learning curve for...
The Survivalist: Will ARK Survival Evolved’s Conquest be PvP salvation or ultimately a clustercluck?
If you want to get into ARK: Survival Evolved's PvP scene, aren't willing to deal with the mega tribes and rampant cheating found on...
Vague Patch Notes: World of Warcraft, math, and making choices ‘interesting’ in MMOs
So if you somehow managed to miss it, let me recap:Â World of Warcraft's community manager Lore recently gave some feedback on the many complaints...
Ask Mo: The real value of MMO interviews
MOP reader Avaera recently sent in a question that I thought would be fun to address here in my poor neglected Ask Mo column....