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Interestingly enough, there are a few types of video game music that don't often pop up in MMORPGs for various reasons. One of these...

"Wait a minute," you say out loud to your computer. "Western MMORPGs aren't a thing, except in my fondest dreams. How can you write...

When a beloved MMORPG is canceled, it doesn't entirely vanish without a trace. After all, there are thousands (if not millions) of eyewitnesses with...

In the history of MMORPGs, City of Heroes might well go down as having one of the most passionate communities in the genre. People didn't...

There's a dedicated subcommunity of video game music afficionados out there that love these soundtracks so much that they devote considerable effort to producing...

I am in love with the night. No, I'm not an emo vampire or Batman (although...); I've just always appreciated the quiet and peacefulness...

Music doesn't just speak to emotion; it often evokes it, conjuring it out of thin air with notes and tones and those squiggly lines...

If you've been hiding in a cave on Mars with your fingers in your ears and your social media feeds on the fritz, you...

I have often thought it grossly unfair that a video game soundtrack is linked, for better and for worse, with the popularity of the...

As an MMO fan, there are few things as sad as a promising game being killed in development without seeing the light of a...

One of the great things about the EVE Online soundtrack, other than its perplexing popularity despite being mostly an ambient synth score, is that...

Lately, a friend was asking me where he should start with collecting MMO soundtracks. "Pretty much anywhere and everywhere" was my initial reaction, although...

With another year coming to a close, I thought it would be an opportune time to go back and give out flippant awards to...

Now that we're into the thick of December, I've given myself permission to finally turn the radio station over to the all-Christmas-all-the-time channel for...

Game soundtracks like this are the reason why I scrounge outside of the well-known MMOs for hidden gems. As I've often said before, the...

Halloween is upon us, that spooky and magical time of year that exists both in real life and in many of our MMOs. While...

I've been a sneaky columnist, my friends. Oh yes I have. In my last Jukebox Heroes I posted my top six favorite MMO soundtracks,...

In ranking MMO soundtracks, there are a lot of ways to do it. You can pull out individual tracks or praise a game for...

Aion is a game that's well-renowned for both its visual and audio beauty. Among my fellow MMO soundtrack enthusiasts, the title's many soundtracks stand out...

I love a really good superhero score. Some of my favorite pieces include John Williams' Superman theme, Danny Elfman's Batman introduction, Brian Tyler's Iron...