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

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

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 go...

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

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 advertisements...

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 City...

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 50/50,...

With Destiny 2 back in the news thanks to its free-to-play relaunch, Stadia platforming, and new expansion, online gamers have once again returned to...

There is wrong, and then there is perilously wrong. The kind of wrong so dangerous that the odds of your heart finally recovering are...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A multiplayer online game is looking for the new hot thing to drum up interest in...

Honestly, I wondered how the heck Final Fantasy XIV could top the revelation about Hydaelyn and Zodiark at the start of this year's E3....

A while back I saw a deeply underrated post on the MMORPG subreddit about mentoring systems. I don't mean the kind of systems like...

With half the MMO community in a frenzy about the coming of World of Warcraft Classic this summer, many a gamer's mind has turned...

I've never played Worlds Adrift, and in the near future I will never be able to do so. Despite this fact, I'm in no particular...

I can't recall the last time I felt pulled in two different directions in an MMORPG, but over the past couple of weeks, Lord...

One of the more bits of brilliant design in City of Heroes is that there is such a diverse and distinct array of enemy...

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. I am going to share a story with you. At it's core, it's...

Whew. All right. So we've gotten the media tour information for the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion, and that means that people have gotten to...