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This year, we have elected not to do an April Fools' joke because we found ourselves with something more pressing to do. It turns...

General chat, sometimes called "Barrens chat" or "zone chat" or "the party line," is both the bane and the secret fixation of my existence....

Lately I've been exploring Lord of the Rings Online's new(ish) mission system, which is essentially a smaller version of skirmishes that scale to a...

Justin, Bree, Chris, and Tyler discuss Magic Legends' soft launch, World of Warcraft's price hikes, WoW Burning Crusade's beta, Elite Dangerous' Odyssey alpha, Raph Koster's virtual world manifesto, and Monster Hunter Rise's launch, with mailbag topics on when subs aren't worth it and why MMO currencies are just the worst.

With the recent announcement of Crayta coming to PCs, I was reminded of some discussions on the Asheron's Call subreddit about making a battle royale fan...

One of the big selling points in RIFT has always been the ability to combine three of the game's Souls into a custom class....

While World of Warcraft certainly made a number of questionable design decisions over the years, for my money one of the absolute best moves...

Every year or so we'll do a conversation topic about the oldest MMO we still play. But realistically, the same couple of MMOs always...

One of my half-serious predictions during the initial batch of predictions for Final Fantasy XIV's big reveal showcase was that we'd learn about a...

I can't remember the last time I struggled so much deciding whether I like a game or not. I'm a fan of ARPGs, and...

Back during BlizzConline, I wrote a piece on Overwatch 2 that mentioned offhandedly that it sounded like Blizzard was creeping toward a "bring the...

For MMO blogs that only cover a single game, an announcement of an upcoming content release is like a mini-Christmas all to itself. This...

The days in which it was an active debate whether or not a given MMO should have a system of cosmetics have passed us by,...

In what promises to be quite the busy year for Lord of the Rings Online, the game's first content update -- Wildwood -- arrived...

It's been a long-held axiom in the gaming industry that players will always, always pick the path of least resistance toward a goal or...

You might be surprised that I haven't written a piece in WoW Factor yet about the BlizzConline announcement that we would get no new...

Well, as Monster Hunter Rise is finally out. We received a pair of review copies at the last minute, so with about 10 hours...

The Path of Exile community has been roiling over the past couple of weeks, first because of the Harvest crafting nerfs and then because...

Back in February, when BlizzConline was at its height, part of the World of Warcraft community lost its mind over the revelation that Blizzard...

Black Desert's had some exceptional growth over the past year. What I've always liked about this game is that it's never tried to be...