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Let me teach you how to understand Mephala the Webspinner. Maybe that's misleading; she's a Deadric Prince, and who can really understand the motivations...

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...

Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column through which many Massively Overpowered readers get the help they need to achieve better balance within their...

My experience with Rend last year felt a bit like stepping into a faerie circle and slipping into another world, sneaking up to a...

It's easy to miss one of the worst bits of news about the next Final Fantasy XIV Live Letter because it's tucked in the...

This year's PAX East featured a lot of games early in their testing phase, but Ashes of Creation was one that had splurged for...

One of the fun parts of this job - or one of the odd parts, depending on how you prioritize things - is how...

At this year's PAX East, I discovered that my mental picture of Casey McGeever did not match the actual man in person, but that...

It's not every day that you walk into a building dominated by an enormous griffon, the enormous statue replicating the mount in Guild Wars...

It's easy to have little to no idea about how Final Fantasy XIV is localized. Obviously the localization team has advanced beyond the days...

As a collector and reviewer of MMORPG soundtracks, I owe a great debt to fellow music lovers who take the time to somehow extract...

If there is one thing this past week has emphasized to me, it's that powering through just the main story missions of Secret World...

The early access days of Conan Exiles are coming to a close. In less than a month, the survival sandbox will launch. At that time...

It's funny how presentation problems can have such a huge impact on the same product. Warframe, as a game, is almost crippled by its lack...

With April Fool's Day falling on a Sunday, Passover, and Easter, I didn't actually spend a lot of time on the internet watching the...

Less than a year ago, I faced a crisis as a fan and player of The Secret World. Funcom abruptly announced that it would...

Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset was announced during GDC 2018, which may or may not have surprised you, depending on how many spoilers you'd already...

I love stories. Maybe it's the teacher in me, but I love stories not just for their raw entertainment value, but for their ability...

With 30 years of history, Final Fantasy as a series has had lots of riffs on the same basic ideas. It's the only thing...

EVE Online is not known for being a happy place. It's shown even in mass media as a cutthroat world of war and theft. Dealing...