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Recently news broke that Blizzard had cancelled an unannounced game that had been in development for several years. This was followed closely...

It's the final countdown, people. Final Fantasy XIV will throw wide the gates early in the morning on Friday, and we'll all be...

Earlier in June, Wilhelm of The Ancient Gaming Noob posted a provocative article about the three problems MMORPGs are never going to...

Massive battles are the norm for sci-fi MMO EVE Online, with players routinely clashing in their hundreds or thousands over territorial claims...

What can call an MMO blogger out of retirement? A game studio putting in below the bare minimum of effort in its updates seems...

Drama between raid groups. Drama within a raid group. Time commitment. Maybe even mechanical difficulty. There are a lot of things that can push someone...

A few years ago I regaled you with the fascinating tale of one of the very first multiplayer graphical MUDs, the absurdly named

As one of the hosts of Battle Bards and the writer of this site's Jukebox Heroes column, I obviously hold great affection...

The leaderboards of Trove have undergone something of a diet. A hotfix applied earlier this week to the PC version has seen several...

So it was just last week when I did a whole column asking whether Blizzard does, in fact, have a plan when it...

In a recent One Shots, MOP's Justin asked readers to offer up their screenshots of MMOs with diurnal cycles - that is, games...

Last week, games psychologist Jamie Madigan tweeted an underrated comment about how psychological tricks used in restaurant menu design are also found in...

When I first started playing Warframe, I definitely wasn't in it for the story. Was there story? Initially, no. There were only crumbs...

What's amazing about the unexpected City of Heroes revival (and does that ever feel good to type) isn't just that old players are eager to...

Gosh, City of Heroes is still a wonderful game... but boy, it really does show its age when I look at it now. The...

MMOs shut down. This is just kind of a reality. It's an unpleasant one, but we also are collectively aware that it happens and...

The announcement of Black Desert's Shai class earlier this month really caught me off guard. Sure, I thought a snow globe sprawled on...

I swear that we are all of us caught in a time loop right now. It's not 2019, it's really just 2004, when

Justin and Bree discuss E3, Black Desert, Warframe, Last Oasis, Amazon, New World, Ship of Heroes, SWG Legends, LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, with mailbag questions on monetizing character costuming and beating bad launch dead horses.

Close set of voting this time 'round, at least in terms of TERA's business model. For a time, the polls were literally at...