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I always found it weird that bookstores always shoved science fiction and fantasy subgenres together, kind of like a "here's a general section for...

There's a lot to be upset about with the World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth prepatch. There's stuff that just doesn't feel good any more...

Kotaku did a recent piece on "girls only" Overwatch groups that got me thinking about themed guilds. (As it turned out, the writer found...

Last week, down in the comments of an innocuous post about gamers being nice in Fortnite, a couple of MOP commenters requested a column...

From time to time, I like to break from talking about the latest news from Star Wars: The Old Republic to talk about what...

If something goes wrong with Frostkeep's early access launch of Rend, blame me. While I was at the office, I distracted Co-Founders Jeremy Wood and...

There are lots of things I'm not crazy about when it comes to the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth pre-patch event, but one...

The Battle Bards are always on the prowl for overlooked soundtracks from overlooked MMORPGs, and this week, they might have found a new one...

Early access for Rend is just around the corner, which means hype for the game is picking up. Frostkeep recently invited us to check out its...

Looking over the past two decades or so, MMORPGs have grown by leaps and bounds with regular releases, events, and (of course) expansion packs....

In today's installment of Was This A Joke Or Not Theater, it seems that the co-founder of Riot Games (maker of League of Legends,...

WildStar. RIFT. EverQuest II. If I had to choose three MMORPGs that contained the best housing systems and then rank them, that list up there...

When you usually hear about voting systems in MMORPGs, they are usually tied to some cumbersome political system that most players will never get...

Justin and Bree discuss Star Wars Galaxies Legends, World of Warcraft, Elite Dangerous, LOTRO's Weatherstock, Trion's layoffs, No Man's Sky's multiplayer, DDO, and Wizard 101 updates, with mailbag entries on how to start an MMO blog and spooky stuff in Guild Wars 2.

I was recently asked which EverQuest II expansion was the best. The best! I didn't know how to answer that really: I am not...

Over the past week or so, I've been tinkering with Star Wars Galaxies Legends, an NGE emulator for SWG that's actually pretty polished and...

It hardly needs to be said at this point that the new way of doing things with Final Fantasy XIV's live letters has proven...

Over the weekend I saw an interesting Twitter discussion about how much game-playing game-designers actually need to do, and whether those passions are even...

A few months ago, I created a new character and ran through the new player experience for an article on how to get new...

Writing is not a matter of having no bias, it's a matter of being aware of your bias and attempting to correct for it....