impressions

Here we are, a day before the first major Final Fantasy XIV patch of the year... which is also very, very early in the...

It's tradition for us to pick out one big story or narrative arc that defined the year and slap it with an award label,...

To say that Elite: Dangerous had a rough 2022 is putting it mildly (and pretty much dismisses the nuance this retrospective hopes to provide)....

So now that first impressions are out of the way and I can focus on other things like making sure that my alts get...

For most of 2022, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was so far down my list of "most anticipated releases" as to be falling off the...

Eventually, you are going to have to fight something in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight. Of course, by "eventually" I actually mean "more or less...

As is always the case with these World of Warcraft impressions, there was no way to stop with just part one. There's other stuff...

While it's not really what will serve as a foundational component of my evaluation of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight as a whole, I think...

Maybe the real boat to the Dragon Isles was the friends we made along the way? Wait, no, it was a boat. A highly...

Due to issues of pride and fear of snarky comments, most of us might not admit to ever being carried through MMO content. But...

With the second part of the Dragonflight pre-patch live, I have now been granted an ability I did not particularly want in World of...

It's been a fairly quiet year for the in-development Palia, as the cozy life sim MMO wrapped up two rounds of alpha testing but...

The old axiom goes that you can't knock it until you try it, and this Sure, Why Not Sunday sees MOP's Chris trying the...

Feeling the effects of the "superhero movie fatigue syndrome" that's going around these days, I wasn't overly eager to check out Marvel Snap when...

When I first took a look into Mist Legacy during a livestream, I was both intrigued and charmed. The game basically looked and played...

It'd really be nice to visit Ala Mhigo, but I sincerely doubt at this point that we're ever going to go there in Final...

A recent post over at Words Under My Name resonated as the author shared how, despite multiple efforts to be social in MMOPGs, sooner...

If you don't want to read an entire column in which I talk about the new talent trees in World of Warcraft... good gosh,...

We come now to part two of my early impressions of New World's sprawling Brimstone Sands update. Previously in our Vitae Aeternum column, I...

It's finally here: New World has launched its fall update, and the Soulwardens of Aeternum now venture into the wastes of Brimstone Sands. This is...