first impressions

The fact that we currently have a Big Five in the MMO space is a big change from not so long ago, when the...

Let's go ahead and get this out of the way: Tower of Fantasy, the new shared world RPG from publisher Level Infinite and developer...

In a recent post on trying out Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, blogger Virtual Bastion made the observation that the MMO offered "slick...

Like most of the readers of this site, I spend the majority of my gaming time in MMORPGs, or I wouldn't be here. But...

Well all right, then. This was unexpected. I honestly did not expect that Blizzard's need for content would overwhelm basic needs of testing and...

The latest iteration of the Diablo franchise is here with Diablo Immortal, but it doesn't seem to be stirring as much interest among the...

There was a time when the release of a new Diablo game might have been a big deal for me. But I've never been...

I'm still searching for a survival game that fits me. I enjoy a lot of the survival experience, but the games as a whole...

Server performance issues aside, Lord of the Rings Online's 15th anniversary has been a smashing success. It's been far greater an event than I...

In a thought-provoking essay, MMO blog Parallel Context wrestled with the question, "Who gets to decide what is fun in multiplayer games?" This is...

It's amazing how fast two years flies by. It didn't seem that long ago that I was doing my first impressions piece of Black...

While I have to admit that my playtime in Lost Ark has waned a bit in light of a bunch of other games capturing...

Where were you nine years ago? I don't know about you, but my life looked very different in 2013 when Guild Wars 2 first...

We interrupt your regularly scheduled Choose My Adventure programming for something of a meta discussion on what this column is meant to be and...

I'll be perfectly honest: Babylon's Fall was almost never on my radar. A packed few weeks of MMO and multiplayer releases pretty much saw...

We're just a few days into the launch of Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons, one of the highlights of the year and sandwiched...

To kick off this week's parade of MMO essays by bloggers in the virtual trenches, SWTOR site Going Commando gave us an honest review...

Even after a decade-and-a-half of constant expansion, Lord of the Rings Online's Middle-earth has more left to show us than is currently on the...

Lost Ark has hooked me pretty deeply. I’m just over 30 levels and five or so days into the game right now, which sometimes...

While MMOs may ask us to experience them for the long haul, first impressions still count. And if those impressions aren't favorable right out...