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The Daily Grind: Should MMORPGs have special areas for paying players?
I was poking around in the Guild Wars 2 cash shop this weekend when I realized that ArenaNet is selling teleports to Noble's Folly....
Star Citizen’s Around the Verse on the lives of dynamic NPCs
This week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse kicks off with a check-in from the Austin team, specifically PR, animation, and QA. The...
Star Citizen’s Sandi Gardiner vacates social media over harassment
Cloud Imperium VP of Marketing Sandi Gardiner, best known to gamers for her role as one of Star Citizen's most recognizable faces thanks to her...
Star Trek Online walks fans through the console experience
Excited to have Star Trek Online available to play on your couch instead of just the computer? It'll be like watching a new season...
Mark Hamill and John Rhys-Davis talk about shooting Squadron 42
You would think that if one were ever able to get Luke Skywalker, Gimli, and that Wing Commander guy into the same room together,...
EVE Evolved: The single-shard sandbox economy
The debate about what makes a good sandbox game is as old as the term itself, and everyone seems to have a different view...
Star Citizen deep-dives catastrophic capital ship damage
On this week's Star Citizen:Â Around the Verse, you can safely skip to about 19:30 and peel your eyes wide open. Not that the rest...
The Daily Grind: How much does your MMORPG character’s appearance matter to your gameplay?
I like to think of myself as the kind of person who doesn't care all that much about aesthetics as long as a game...
TERA is assessing interest in that rumored console port
Back in May, TERA's South Korean publisher confirmed that the MMORPG was destined for console ports to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 -- at...
What drives Star Citizen’s superbackers to spend $10,000 or more
By now, Star Citizen's crowdfunding success is quite well-known. But perhaps what isn't common knowledge is that there is a group of players --...
Hyperspace Beacon: Five reasons I still play Star Wars: The Old Republic
It’s hard not to be negative about your favorite game when it appears that it’s changing its original goals. “What? You’re just now realizing...
Star Trek Online starts selling incredibly expensive outfits
Looking for a recipe for instant Star Trek Online community controversy? Add something, anything to the in-game store. Bam. You're welcome.
This week's particular brouhaha...
Star Citizen’s new season of Around the Verse shakes up the format
Season three of Star Citizen's long-running Around the Verse series is kicking off this week with a special guest: Chris Roberts himself.
Roberts joins regular...
The Daily Grind: How important are MMORPG playerbase metrics to you?
While playing Overwatch with guildies the other night, my husband turned to me with a hypothetical. The guys were speculating on World of Warcraft's...
Massively Overthinking: Starting over with MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking topic is from a reader named Yasser, who asked us:
"If you had to pick one MMO to experience all over...
The Daily Grind: Do you think of yourself as an MMO PvPer?
Whether I've consciously realized it or not, I've been a PvPer since my first FFA PvP sandbox, Ultima Online, in 1997. Since then, I've...
EVE Evolved: When was EVE Online’s golden age?
In the latest Massively Overthinking article, our Patreon patron Duane got us thinking about whether the golden age of the MMO industry has passed or MMOs are actually in...
One Shots: Strange voyages
As cool and iconic that Star Trek ships look, I've always thought they also came across as fragile, with pieces sticking out here and...
Star Trek Online is heading to Star Trek Las Vegas
Are you heading out to the City of Gin-Soaked Regrets (or "Las Vegas" as it's more commonly known) for Star Trek Las Vegas? Because...
Star Citizen’s Around the Verse: Procedural planets, GrimHex, and free-fly
The fourth and final 100th episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse is up -- OK, so it's really 103, right? But they are...
