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It's been a busy couple of months for Pearl Abyss and Kakao games. While Black Desert players knew about Pearl Abyss taking up self publishing...

Good news! Your friend, Professor Hypothetical-Question, has developed a time machine! Unfortunately, it's pretty limited. It will allow you to do one thing and...

Ages ago, I wrote a column in which I jokingly pointed out that in order to really get the WoW Classic experience, you should need...

We all know that Final Fantasy XIV is a big success story. So what's the secret behind Naoki Yoshida taking the game from zero...

It's easy to think of "crunch" in game development being something of a more recent phenomenon as we've heard more about it. It's also...

When dealing with a long-running MMO, it's easy to sort its history into eras based on expansions. But it's also good to remember that...

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 more...

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

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 left out...

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

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 will...

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 ones,...

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 this...

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

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