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Final Fantasy XIV continues to offer new Endwalker stories to players
Every year, Final Fantasy XIV offers players a set of short fiction pieces on the site for the game's anniversary, exploring little spaces that...
Tarisland’s Blight Dragon Elegy raid blog is its weirdest lore dump yet
Before you ask: No, we still don't know when in October Tarisland's Blight Dragon Elegy and first proper season are launching, but no matter...
Elder Scrolls Online teases backstories for its upcoming pair of companions, Zerith-var and Tanlorin
When update 44 arrives in The Elder Scrolls Online later this month, its most exciting feature is surely its two new companions, Tanlorin and...
Blizzard injects gamers with a double dose of Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 lore
Where do you sit on the spectrum of interest in video game lore? Your answer will determine whether or not you're going to engage...
Tarisland’s latest Blight Dragon Elegy lore dump focuses on the bosses of the Scarlet Frostwood dungeon
Over the past couple of weeks, Tarisland has been kicking out some pretty nutso lore posts about its upcoming Blight Dragon Elegy season, sharing...
Wisdom of Nym: Let’s talk about Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail’s key artifact
Yes, I'm having a bit of fun in the title here. Obviously there is one main artifact that serves at a major plot element...
World of Warcraft offers a new animated short for Alleria Windrunner ahead of The War Within
For a long time, if you asked a World of Warcraft fan to identify a Windrunner, you could probably expect to hear "Sylvanas" as...
The Daily Grind: Do you have an MMO lore friend?
I do not have an MMO lore friend. This is because I am the MMO lore friend. I am the friend who, when the...
Bungie’s plan for Destiny 2’s eleventh year is less linear and more about world-building
Bungie has been operating Destiny 2 for a decade now, and that means next year is the 11th of storytelling in a world full...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is worth playing because of its lore?
A few weeks ago in a Massively Overthinking, Tyler landed one hell of a double-dunk on SWTOR and EVE Online almost in passing, suggesting...
Sand studio explains the extraction shooter’s premise in a new official post
Do you greatly enjoy sand's relative coarseness, its rough texture, and its ability to get everywhere? This is the correct way of thinking! No...
Tarisland counts 3M pre-registrations, opens lore site prior to global launch
We're just a couple weeks away from a major global MMO launch in the form of Tarisland, and it's all hands on deck in...
The Daily Grind: Who’s the best fictional leader still kicking around in MMORPGs?
For once, it's probably good that we don't have a Transformers MMORPG because otherwise the answer to this question would just be Optimus Prime....
The Daily Grind: Who’s the MMO NPC you love to hate?
I will never stop making fun of Prince Rurik in the original Guild Wars. It will simply never happen. No one else is going...
Wisdom of Nym: What people don’t really get about the Warrior of Light in Final Fantasy XIV
Not so long ago, I saw a very foolish comment complaining about Final Fantasy XIV from someone who did not play or think about...
Narrative director Steve Danuser quietly left World of Warcraft last fall
It turns out that World of Warcraft's narrative director left Blizzard last November and no one said anything about it. No, that doesn't mean...
Vitae Aeternum: The ups and downs of New World’s revamped story
In the early days, I made the argument that New World's narrative, while minimal, deserved more credit than it was getting. Since then, however,...
Eternal Tombs boasts that it’s ‘making the most progress’ in development over peers
Hardcore project Eternal Tombs refuses to see itself as a weak underdog in the MMO race. As the game barrels through development, the studio...
Tencent dives into the backstory of Tarisland’s Aslow the Shadow Witch
If you've fallen in love with the unique cadence of Tarisland's not-quite-correct English translations from its various video narrations, you will probably enjoy the...
WoW Factor: For Khaz Algar!
This is not really a column about Khaz Algar in World of Warcraft, or at least not in the sense that you might expect...
