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Sword and Bored: Trade
Mo learns that objects in this brave new world are all too often... bind-on-pickup.
WRUP: Goodbye, my sweet would-be treasure edition
I don't think I can properly express how much I love the Ikthians in WildStar. The Ikthian Crawler is seriously something I would... well,...
Perfect Ten: Proof that the RuneScape Twitter account is stark raving mad
For a writer on a multi-MMORPG news site, following pretty much every online game's Twitter feed comes with the territory. It's always interesting to me to see...
Massively OP Podcast: Episode 15
Justin and Bree talk about Blade & Soul's western approach, WoW's war on flying, The Repopulation's launch date, EverQuest's progression server, Age of Conan's anniversary, and Guild Wars 2's Lion's Arch rebuild, plus mailbag questions on repellent MMO IPs.
Sword and Bored: Ninja Loot
Mo downs his first miniboss, only to see one of his "friends" abscond with the loot.
WRUP: My only raiding story from Star Wars: The Old Republic edition
A friend asked me to come with her guild to run some endgame raid or another. I don't remember what it was. Whatever raid...
Massively OP Podcast: Episode 14
Justin and Bree discuss WildStar's chaos, NCsoft's financials, Trove, Marvel Heroes, The Secret World, ARK: Survival Evolved, Neverwinter's Xbox numbers, and The Division's delay, plus mailbag questions on Reddit gaming culture and escapism vs. lockboxes.
Sword and Bored: Boss fight
Mo takes on an unimpressed crab miniboss with his newfound companions in his very first PUG.
WRUP: This game existed, no one cared edition
The above screenshot is from Fantasy Earth Zero, a title that was developed by Square-Enix, launched to a resounding thud, got resurrected by another...
Massively OP Podcast: Episode 13
Justin and Bree discuss WoW's sub decline, EQ Next, GW2's Dragonhunter, EQ progression servers, SWTOR harassment, and adventures in Marvel Heroes, Secret World, and Guild Wars, plus mailbag questions on SWG's PvP and pay-to-win.
Sword and Bored: Looking for group
While out hunting his foe, the skeptical crab, Mo meets new friends!
WRUP: Chroma Squad is a thing of joy edition
If you had told me when I was 17 that I wanted to play a pixelated turn-based strategy game in which I got to...
Massively OP Podcast: Episode 12
Justin, Bree, and Eliot from Cards Against Humanity discuss SWTOR's Ziost update, Daybreak's emu deal, the Guild Wars saga, ArcheAge's patch, and Darkfall's retcon, plus mail on MMO mistakes and replacing CoH. Bonus: Justin's Kickstarter tribute song!
Watch One Piece Online get torn apart by an angry player
Not every online game can be a winner, but even losers have their purpose as comedy fodder for the tongue-in-cheek player.
YouTube comedian TheHiveLeader took...
ArenaNet strips, kills, deletes, and bans Guild Wars 2 cheater
Today's lesson is that you shouldn't cheat in online games. Alas, a Guild Wars 2 character had to die to provide this valuable information...
Sword and Bored: Hide helmet
Mo decides to check out the "hide helmet" option all the kids are talking about lately.
WRUP: Throw hams at hyenas edition
Folks, do you find yourself with too much ham in your house? If not, go buy some ham, then throw it at some vicious...
Massively OP Podcast: Episode 11
Justin, Bree, and guest John discuss Anarchy Online, Star Wars Galaxies, Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns, Neverwinter, Meridian 59, Ultima Online, classic Guild Wars, WildStar, Elder Scrolls Online, and Elite: Dangerous, with mailbag questions on making your own MMO.
Sword and Bored: Behind the scenes
Mo is offscreen for a week, but we get a chance to see just what the NPCs are up to behind the scenes.
WRUP: What ever happened with that button thing edition
Does anyone remember this? This was a thing that happened. I wrote a news post about it. A thing was done with a button,...
