genre
The Daily Grind: What would your dream genre be for a non-fantasy MMORPG?
Fantasy, as a genre, is pretty thoroughly represented in games of all stripes. Video games, tabletop games, and so forth. What can you say?...
The Daily Grind: Do you ever try out MMOs that aren’t MMORPGs?
It's not an exaggeration to say that most of our staff and the majority of our readers are here because they care about MMORPGs...
The Daily Grind: Has an MMO ever frightened you?
If any game has ever aimed for frightening the living daylights out of players with more focus than The Secret World, I don't know...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most obscure MMO you’ve played?
You are probably aware of the fact at this point that we have an ongoing series of posts in which we ask whatever happened...
The Daily Grind: Do survival sandboxes and/or battle royale games have a future?
We saw the end of REND. I'm sad about that. I liked REND, I thought it had neat ideas, but it had a problem wherein it...
The Daily Grind: What would get you to try out a battle royale title?
Battle royale games are both the newest flash-in-the-pan and one of the oldest genres out there; it's not exactly a new idea to put...
Not So Massively: Gaming genre elitism isn’t a good look on anyone
As I noted when I first took over the Not So Massively column this past spring, we live in a time of great change...
Video essay attempts to identify how MMOs lost their way
Is the MMO genre dead, or has it simply lost its way? In a recent video essay, YouTuber TheHiveLeader makes the argument for the...
The Daily Grind: Which non-MMORPG would you like to see expand into one?
It's common knowledge at this point that Overwatch is in small part salvaged from Blizzard's never-actually-made second MMORPG, although just how much of the game...
The Daily Grind: What would it take to get you to try a battle royale game?
The big thing these days is Apex Legends, which is the sudden success story to mirror Fortnite's overnight success, which itself mirrored the overnight...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO subgenres need better names?
There are an awful lot of games falling under the broad header of "not quite an MMORPG but still multiplayer shooter with strong influences...
Shigeru Miyamoto didn’t want to make an MMO because he would get bored
Have you ever wondered about an MMO developed by Nintendo's resident legend, Shigeru Miyamoto? You may be intrigued by Miyamoto's remarks at the Computer...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has lost nearly half of its players since January as Sanhok map goes live
Alas, poor PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, we've entered the second phase of your musician biopic when the fans start leaving. Sure, the game was riding high...
MOBAs provide a template for the future of the battle royale genre
So where will battle royale games be in another five years? We don't know just yet, but from a purely business standpoint we can...
PAX East 2017: Introducing Rend, a three-way survival sandbox from Frostkeep Studios
I don't really like survival games, typically -- I understand why a lot of people do like them, don't get me wrong, but I don't...
Empyrean Interactive outlines its plans to resurrect the MMO genre
Empyrean Interactive doesn't like the label of making an MMO; as we've covered here before, the studio prefers to frame its future games as...
Crash Course Gaming offers a quick primer on MMORPGs
What is an MMORPG? If you're reading this site, you probably have an answer ready to go, but you probably know more than a...
The Daily Grind: Would you play an underwater MMO?
There are a lot of very well-established pop cultural ideas that haven't seen much adaptation into the MMO space; we've never had a real...
The Daily Grind: What are the minimum criteria for an online game?
It's pretty definite that Second Life is not a game in the strictest sense of the word, and by "the strictest" I of course...
