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Let's face it: There isn't really a huge pool of MMORPGs from the 1990s to explore in this column. By now I have done...

"We're pretty sure you'd rather play the game before the heat death of the universe than have us hand-craft an entire worldwide ecology from...

Recently we had an interesting question come in from reader and Patron Rasmus Praestholm, who asked me to do a little investigating: "What (if...

At the beginning of every year, I give the games that I am embedded in a letter grade centered around the four different player...

Massively OP Patron Jackybah has a question for this week's Massively Overthinking that's probably going to kick up some dust. He wonders whether MMO...

Aw. Look at the otter. Isn't she cute? Swimmin' around like that? It's not that we thought you needed an otter break today (although you...

When it comes to text-based MMOs created in the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, the sheer number of them would blot out the sky. There...

MMORPG blogger and MOP commenter Isarii (@ethanmacfie) recently published an excellent video positing that the MMO industry is facing a "massive identity crisis." "The MMO...

An abandoned fantasy MMORPG might be getting a second lease on life thanks to its players, although the road ahead looks to be challenging. Back...

Ever hear that expression, "His name is mud?" It applies on every level to the incarceration of one Adam Mudd this week, who received...

Big talk and intriguing ideas continue over at Chronicles of Elyria, where the team is giving players a vision of what the MMO's weather...

I can't say that Rubies of Eventide has been on my radar, like, ever. And yet practically every time I've asked for suggestions of...

Even though there are hundreds and thousands of MMOs spanning several decades, only a small handful were so incredibly influential that they changed the...

Chronicles of Elyria is nothing if not bursting with interesting little ideas that you don't often see in other MMOs. One of these, apparently,...

I really enjoyed watching the Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind announcement with all of our readers. The staff here saw your comments immediately as I...

I confess that I have a particular fascination for MMOs that came into existence in the 1990s. It's not only the fact that I...

Fiction writers know well of Joseph Campbell's identification and outline of the monomyth, or "hero's journey," in many stories. The 12-step process starts with...

Let me tell you a story. Back in 2001, a graphical MUD was released called Wyvern. It wasn't the biggest game on the market...

The Elder Scrolls Online, the MMORPG once infamous for eschewing holidays, is following up its inaugural autumn bash with a winter party called the New...

Hey you! Yeah, the player who actually reads quest text and lore entries when all of the other hooting madmen are furiously clicking past...