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Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR, Destiny 2, RIFT, CCP's studio closures, Warframe, and Star Citizen's CitizenCon, with tidbits on Guild Wars 2, Trove, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, WoW, and BlizzCon, and a mailbag question on the future of traditional MMORPGs.

In the last edition of Flameseeker Chronicles, I discussed the opening sections of Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire's story while providing you with a brief...

Still a little confused about what Chronicles of Elyria is trying to do that we haven't seen before? The dev team has put together...

The New York Times ran an op-ed from Kotaku editor Jason Schreier last week outlining the perils of game industry "crunch": 80-to-100-hour weeks, often...

The International Olympic Committee has formally stated that it may consider e-sports a sporting activity. "Competitive e-sports could be considered as a sporting activity, and...

Crafting is really important in Final Fantasy XIV. That much can't be denied; the game places so much emphasis on the options available to...

MOP reader Tyler sent us a tip over the weekend that keeps bothering me. According to a post made on Facebook this weekend, a...

Though EVE Online has a reputation as a cut-throat PvP sandbox where anything goes, the fuel that fires its conflict engine has always been...

As the current author of our Choose My Adventure column, I was going to open this off by saying that a month isn't really...

Here's a weird thing to admit: I was actually concerned when I heard that Lord of the Rings Online brought back Chance Thomas to...

"Trick or treat!" Kids say this over and over every October 31st, but let's be honest: They're only looking for the treats. If an adult...

I remember years ago when then-Massively-columnist Rubi Bayer let loose with a blistering rant on the state of faux beta MMOs. She helmed Betawatch...

It's really, really weird to me to think that we're getting an announcement about a new World of Warcraft expansion next week. Admittedly, we...

Pretty much the entire time between when Destiny 1 was announced and the day Destiny 2 was confirmed for PC, every single article we...

Earlier this fall, we learned that Spacetime Studios was working on a new mobile MMO: It's called Pocket Legends Adventures, an "homage" to what Spacetime says...

Surprise! ARK: Aberration, the survival sandbox's next expansion that was slated to launch this month, is delayed. Shocking, I know. Actually, if any fans...

GIbiz posted an article earlier this week peppered with quotes from Mat Piscatella, an NPD US games market analyst who suggests that the recent...

I am not done with Guild Wars 2. This may or may not come as a surprise to people, but it's still the case regardless....

I've opined before that the best way to deal with World of Warcraft's current crafting system is to scrap the whole thing and start...

Many of you will immediately turn to the free-to-play model of Star Wars: The Old Republic and reject my even thinking about the cash...