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Sword and Bored: Player housing
Mo is introduced to MMO player housing... and why some people find it frustrating.
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s crafting and gathering endgame in Heavensward
Crafting and gathering has never been a primary goal of mine in Final Fantasy XIV so much as a secondary one. It's something extra...
EVE Evolved: The war for Providence
In the previous edition of EVE Evolved, I looked at how the state of PvP in EVE Online has changed since the Aegis Sovereignty...
The Game Archaeologist: Lucasfilm’s Habitat
Some of you reading this may simply never have known a world before the internet existed by virtue of your age. It's not your...
Stick and Rudder: Star Citizen is starting to come together
Last Tuesday I woke in the wee hours of the morning to install Star Citizen's 1.2 patch. I wasn't battling insomnia or anything like that; on the...
A wicked hive of synth and vibrancy: First impressions of Otherland
I first covered Otherland, the Gamigo-turned-Drago MMORPG based on Tad Williams' sci-fi book series by the same name, at E3 2012. The idea of having...
EverQuesting: A guide to EverQuest II’s city festivals
It's that time of the month again -- a glorious time that I look forward to and makes me cackle with glee just a...
PAX Prime 2015: Don’t hate me because I don’t like Gigantic
If you've not heard of the game Gigantic, then I'm going to have to ask where you've been because Motiga's cross between a MOBA...
Perfect Ten: The 10 MMO memories we all have
I have been playing MMOs with varying degrees of intensity for the past 12Â years. That is really weird to me. It also means that...
Choose My Adventure: Setting up Camp in Trove
Welcome, friends, to another episode of Choose My Adventure: Trove edition. Last week, as you may recall, I took my first steps in the...
Jukebox Heroes: My top six favorite MMO soundtracks of all time
In ranking MMO soundtracks, there are a lot of ways to do it. You can pull out individual tracks or praise a game for...
A fireside chat with Firefall’s executive producer
For a tumultuous period of time, Firefall was in freefall, having crossed the spectrum of gamer goodwill about as fast as was humanly possible....
Not So Massively: HOTS’ ranking woes, LoL’s server move problems
League of Legends finished setting up its new North American server in Chicago, reducing ping times for east coast players but dramatically increasing them...
Wisdom of Nym: The state of Final Fantasy XIV’s melee DPS
I main melee DPS on my main character in Final Fantasy XIV, but it was never really by design. Originally I was quite happy...
PAX Prime 2015: Guild Wars 2 is never getting a PUG raid finder
Guild Wars 2 set its fanbase on edge this last week on Twitter and at PAX prime. We learned that raids are coming to GW2 with...
WoW Factor: Wild guessing about Demon Hunters
So what's the deal with World of Warcraft's Demon Hunter? We just don't know yet. But the space to speculate is pretty awesome.
I mentioned...
PAX Prime 2015: Guns of Icarus breaks ‘preconceived notions’ of naval combat simulation
There are always some games that you look at and think that it would be great to try when you have the time. My...
Eco as an academic tool: Educating with PvE survival and permadeath
Like the idea of survival games, but not PvP? Wish your class involved video games? Maybe you want to doom humanity to choking itself...
Guild Chat: Finding MMO fun without your guildmates
Good news, everyone: I'm back with an unexpected edition of Guild Chat for you! Observant Massively Overpowered readers might have noticed that I rotate...
Nexus Telegraph: Five ways to get ready for WildStar’s F2P
WildStar's free-to-play transition -- with the accompanying massive feature patch -- hasn't gotten a set date yet, but with the update in closed beta...
