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With the increased speeds of modems and the move into 3-D space in the 1990s, some game designers thought it was a logical conclusion...

For all the talk of world firsts, server firsts, and so forth, the real notable MMO events are usually ones that just seem to...

Huh. You know, I really thought I'd written about the whole Corruption system in World of Warcraft's upcoming 8.3 before now in a format...

Sometimes I ask myself whether I really liked WildStar as much as it deserved. Obviously, it's a kind of inherently silly line of...

Do you ever wonder where the MMORPG was born? If you said, "The internet, duh," you're technically correct but also a huge smartass. But...

This is a fun and simple question that is also remarkably complex to answer, because there are so many different ways to answer it....

Just because the big milestone anniversary this year is for EverQuest and not PlanetSide 2 doesn't mean that the latter title needs to be...

We were having an interesting discussion in work chat the other day about EVE Online involving Brendan and me. Brendan, obviously, is the expert...

I tend to think of myself as a beginner in any given MMO for a really long time. Like, to the point where I'll have...

We hear that if you look into a mirror with the lights off and say "Diablo Immortal" three times, the Prime Evil himself...

It's weird to think that World of Warcraft hits 15 years this year, but that's the way linear time works. Five-year intervals are big...

It's good to know that the team behind Path of Exile took some time off for the holiday, since all outward indications are that...

Can you believe that EverQuest II has been running for 14 years now? We'll give you a moment to scamper off to Wikipedia...

I've seen the argument put forth several times over the past month or so about World of Warcraft players just... skipping the current...

If you weren't already aware, we like lists of 10 around here. So we're pleased by the format Wizard101 chose to use...

Friends, readers, genre fans, lend me your eyes; I come to bury WildStar, not to praise it. But just like Marc Antony, I'm...

There are lots of people who know what it's like to work on a game that is not going to be very good. There...

Back in 2013, I took a walk through the annals of the EverQuest franchise's history. What started as one title not only blossomed...

Here's something a little different: Usually, before I write a World of Warcraft column (or any column), my assumptions and data are pretty...

It's always funny when you see the routes that various franchises take. The Expanse started life as a series of books, which became a...