first impressions

Well hey, it seems like it's another birthday for Pokemon Go, so you all know what we have for the anniversary party: another report card!...

It was clear to me how special Shadowbringers was going to be when I saw one of the most effectively horrifying scenes I've witnessed...

Often in action combat MMOs, the story or world built around it is secondary -- arguably tertiary -- to the feeling of getting in...

There was a certain something that remotely intrigued me about Astellia Online before we reached the closed beta phase, so like any sensible human...

I know I've given Niantic hell when it comes on iterating on its Ingress formula, especially in terms of Pokemon Go, but Harry Potter: Wizards Unite...

The announcement of Black Desert's Shai class earlier this month really caught me off guard. Sure, I thought a snow globe sprawled on advertisements...

I did the unthinkable. In honor of Path of Exile's Legion League launch, I made a melee character. Yeah, MJ playing melee: No one...

Path of Exile's Legion launch on Friday coincided with the launch of the game in South Korea, so you had to know we were...

Nexon's new crossplatform multiplayer shooter Rocket Arena came out of nowhere last month and surprised everyone with a closed beta this past week. It's...

Like many of you, I have been participating in the early access for Elsweyr for this last week. In fact, I played some of...

You've read first impressions of Conan Unconquered from Massively OP's Tyler, now come and see MJ's! She's diving into the game for the first...

I don't have any particular attachment to Conan the Barbarian as a franchise. I'm barely even familiar with it, in fact. But I do...

It's the hottest ticket in town, and it's straight from 2004. The World of Warcraft Classic beta test is drawing all sorts of attention...

Somehow I hadn't heard of Eden Rising until it launched out of early access as a free-to-play title, so to me at least it...

The simplest analogy I can think of for World of Warcraft: Classic is being served a breakfast of toasted plain white bread with a...

After playing through Guild Wars 2's new Living World episode, War Eternal, which is live today, I am still speechless. This is, in my...

MMO blog Altar of Gaming has a fascinating series going on in which Rimuru is evaluating whether or not it's worth picking up a...

My very first memory of Dantooine was surprisingly its first real appearance in a video game at all. Star Wars Galaxies imagined Dantooine as...

The year was 2004, and the month was May. My guild was growing increasingly frustrated with Star Wars Galaxies' slow development pace, so we...

I spent some time this week playing on the Elder Scrolls Online public test server. I've explored quite a bit of Northern Elsweyr. I...