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Fantasy, as a genre, is pretty thoroughly represented in games of all stripes. Video games, tabletop games, and so forth. What can you say?...

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...

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...

You are probably aware of the fact at this point that we have an ongoing series of posts in which we ask whatever happened...

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...

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...

As I noted when I first took over the Not So Massively column this past spring, we live in a time of great change...

Is the MMO genre dead, or has it simply lost its way? In a recent video essay, YouTuber TheHiveLeader makes the argument for the...

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 big thing these days is Apex Legends, which is the sudden success story to mirror Fortnite's overnight success, which itself mirrored the overnight...

There are an awful lot of games falling under the broad header of "not quite an MMORPG but still multiplayer shooter with strong influences...

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...

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...

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...

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 doesn't like the label of making an MMO; as we've covered here before, the studio prefers to frame its future games as...

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...

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...

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...