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Here's how this column got written. Last week, I was talking about new potential jobs based on weapons rather than on jobs that have...

Here's the thing that I love to point to whenever I talk about this portion of Secret World Legends: New England is really kind...

I did a ton of shopping - all online, mind you, as I'm not so far gone as to actually put on pants or...

EVE Online is renowned for its cold, harsh universe and relatively few rules, and we've all heard the horror stories over the years of...

This is a post about Marvel Heroes. It's also a post about Firefall. In fact, it's a post about all of the games where...

With some depressing news bouncing around the MMO genre as of late, it was particularly welcome to read an upbeat and exciting producer's letter...

I have long resigned myself to the fact that no matter how much time I take in my first playthrough of an MMO, I'm...

Don't be too mad at Star Wars: Battlefront II. It's a symptom of a problem, not the cause. I mean, be mad at people...

The controversy over lockboxes and their legal status continues to draw more attention from governments, with Australia now weighing in on the issue. Not...

This past week, my husband has been obsessed with Succubox. It's a satirical clicker game where you start out by click-fighting monsters and buying...

I've been keeping a gratitude journal for the first time in my life this month, and it turns out that it's freaking hard. Why?...

Good things come in three's right? Well this is the third installment of the EverChaosing column, which melds Chaos Theory and EverQuesting together. Why...

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, but unlike many such years, it's not "just another Thursday" to everyone else. No, this marks the...

It's kind of hard to be thankful this year. Sure, some good things have happened this year, but we also have some things that,...

One of the factors that keeps me from trying out more MMORPGs than I do is that there's a certain element of anxiety that...

Justin and Bree discuss the sunsets of Marvel Heroes and Master X Master, NCsoft's and Funcom's quarterly financials, EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2 business model fiasco, and Path of Exile's upcoming expansion, with a mailbag question on slowing down for classic WoW.

I feel comfortable in saying that I hold the Guild Wars franchise's soundtrack in high regard. There's excellent music across the board from a...

Last week, I mentioned experience-loss-on-death in EverQuest that was particularly irritating when caused by so-called GM events. Yes, that was in the long long...

The Armoury System places a certain unique burden on Final Fantasy XIV. Any new job doesn't just need to have a distinct mechanical identity,...

Most often, MMO Mechanics articles focus on the gameplay mechanics that both make the MMO genre unique and those that diversify MMOs from one...