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Combat in Elite Dangerous is hard, but finding friends was just a bit harder. At least, it was in the way that I had...

Overwatch had a strange 2018. While Blizzard expanded the game's developer team last year, it also put out less content (and more repeat content)...

Back in October, I made the case that wars were literally ruining EVE Online for the huge number of players living in high-security space....

It's fair to say that a lot was riding on the first limited job for Final Fantasy XIV. It's not just that the job itself...

Droid Gamers put out an interesting piece this weekend that to me illuminates how the ongoing conversation about mobile MMOs go south. Author Ash...

What's the biggest gaming unknown for you going into 2019? For MMO blogger Cary at Virtual Bastion, it's whether or not BioWare is going to...

It always struck me as a cute trick that the original Guild Wars gave your characters birthday presents. Sometimes they were even valuable birthday presents, seeing...

Back in 1997, Australian game developer Auran arrived onto the scene with the real-time strategy title Dark Reign. While it wasn't exactly Command & Conquer...

Youngsters these days probably won't ever experience the real struggle of logging into an MMORPG and endlessly fretting that other players will get to...

There's a narrative that's been making the rounds for a little while now among the World of Warcraft community, buoyed a lot by the fact...

To balance out our traditional Daily Grind on MMOs that contribute to the death of the genre, it seems only fitting to do one...

Let's pretend for a moment that the reason Blizzard appears to be dropping the ball with World of Warcraft right now is that it's...

I have mixed feelings about dragons coming to Elder Scrolls Online. Originally, we knew that we would not see them because they were hibernating...

Those who've been long-time followers of Massively OP's long-running EverQuesting column might have noticed a distinct lack of new year hopes and predictions articles...

This is a story about a boy named Michael. Follow along with me for a little bit, if you'd be so kind. Michael was born...

It's a shame that developers don't really give you any official player numbers any more, but that's the state we live in. Players have...

Working in this field has given me something of a sense of how a lot of the industry is going to play out. Take...

We have spent a lot of time -- perhaps more than is prudent -- pining over MMOs that have closed their doors. But I...

Justin and Bree discuss the Unity vs. SpatialOS showdown, the Destiny 2 Activision split and investigation, Elite's massive event, big updates for Guild Wars 2, FFXIV, and LOTRO, plus our adventures in ESO, LOTRO, SWG, and DDO, and reader mail on games that don't click with you, the MMOs we'd like to see built, and video game eyeballs.

A new year is all about new hopes, new goals, and -- hopefully -- new features and content. I am talking about games, of...