lord of the rings

Just about a year ago, Lord of the Rings Online opened the doors to its very first progression server ruleset. It was...

One of my favorite modern trends of MMORPGs is that studios are no longer saving the entirety of a soundtrack for the base game or expansion releases. Oh sure, those usually get a great album push -- especially if it's one of the bigger games -- but for a while now, many studios have also been releasing new music on a steady basis with significant content patches.

Ready to get into the Halloween spirit in Middle-earth? Considering the holiday, it's a very appropriate month for Minas Morgul -- starring the...

When has something as mundane and nondescript as a bush ever been a helpful hero? And when have we ever featured a MapleStory...

Maybe getting some cosmetics or character level boosts aren't enticing enough to get you to drop up to $130 on a collector's edition of...

If you are not acquainted with the Lord of the Rings Online scene these days, chances are that the headline above made about...

It's an alphabet soup of good (MMO) vibes this month! While many may have returned to the school of hard knocks this fall, plenty...

I love a good cozy place in an MMO, moreso if it's got a fully stocked snack bar and some of my all-time favorite...

Get an early jump on Halloween with the Battle Bards, as they grab the nearest shovel and start unearthing all sorts of morbid and...

You all know that I love my hypotheticals by now, so here's another one for our daily discussion period. Imagine that you have the...

So... this was honestly not the story that I had expected to have wound up coming out of Eternal Magic. I'd been expecting...

If you're happy that we are collectively moving on to 64-bit systems (perhaps you're still really anxious about the impact of the 2038...

Justin and Bree discuss Star Citizen, Zenith, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, WoW, and SWG, with mailbag entries on true MMO difficulty and cyberpunk MMOs.

Last week's screenshot challenge to share pictures of older MMOs that still check out (visually, I mean) resulted in a small avalanche of

While we have known for a long while that this was coming, the official announcement of Lord of the Rings Online's 2019 expansion...

With the undead and possibly soulless cat out of the bag with Minas Morgul, Standing Stone Games is fielding a whole bunch of...

Of all the Desert Oasis articles I've written so far, by far the most fun I had was doing a guide for two...

Back in May, Amazon Game Studios raised eyebrows when it announced it was taking in-development MMORPG New World’s always-on alpha offline....

What we know for certain: Lord of the Rings Online is pushing out Update 24.3 today, and that single decimal point usually...

By 2009, the MMORPG genre had firmly established a norm for its business model. For over a decade, a monthly subscription -- usually $15...