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Believe you me, I know quite well the arguments that have been rehashed over the years about how the MMORPG genre and these online...

MMORPGs are large, enormous repositories of sound design. You may never consciously think about it, but trust me, you notice it. From leveling up...

Justin and Bree discuss the RIFT layoffs, OVH fire, Saga of Lucimia drama, Elder Scrolls Online and Guild Wars 2 patches, LOTRO's roadmap, and Ashes of Creation's delay, with adventures in WoW Classic, ESO, SWG Legends, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on onboarding returning players, crafting MMOs, and Last Oasis.

I feel like I’ve got the general thrust of Wizard101. For the most part, anyway. This week it was all about trying to clear the...

While the announcement of Burning Crusade Classic at BlizzCon last month was of no surprise to even comatose cave dwellers, details of that announcement...

TERA Console players are soon going to get the opportunity to parse their DPS and tune their favorite class if a teaser trailer showcased...

Every couple of months, we'll mention Classic Guild Wars in an article, and we'll get deluged by fans of the 2005 MMO. There appears...

As I am someone who is at best lukewarm to the Star Wars franchise, nearly as ambivalent toward shooters, and almost entirely uninterested in...

At the time you read this, it'll be just about two months until we know more about what's coming with Final Fantasy XIV's fourth...

So I've been playing a lot of City of Heroes lately, and I've roped in my son to play with me, which is always...

Any MMO's 10th anniversary is a significant milestone and a reason for celebration, but for RIFT's birthday, this year is more like a funeral...

Yes, yes, I know all of the jokes, World of Warcraft general chat is vile enough to be used as a biotoxin and all of...

It's one of my favorite things when someone else does it, but it's so cringy when I do. It's when you drop a big...

Despite the title of the "February 2021" producer's letter, Standing Stone Games' official annual roadmap was welcomed when it arrived last week. In March....

A few weeks back, in response to a dumb joke I made about Guild Wars 2's endless parade of cash-shop chairs, MOP's Justin quipped,...

Last month, the MMORPG subreddit slept on a good thread about picking classes in MMOs. Let's wake this sucker up. "Am I the only...

It's been a busy couple of months for Pearl Abyss and Kakao games. While Black Desert players knew about Pearl Abyss taking up self publishing...

A few weeks ago, I saw an MMO player unironically complaining about "welfare epics" here in 2021. This is basically the equivalent of saying,...

I still find Final Fantasy XI's old vague patch notes so annoying ("The potency of certain actions has been adjusted") that I named an entire...

I don't think I've ever seen people fight over the details of a classic server as hard as they do for WoW Classic. Dipping...