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I'm delighted to have found a moment to bring you an extra edition of Flameseeker Chronicles that outlines my thoughts on the first Guild Wars...

In Final Fantasy XI, my first MMO, maps were few and far between, often blindingly unclear, and offered as many opportunities to be hopelessly...

It seems like the entire MMO blogosphere wanted to chip in thoughts on the Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire announcement, whether or not...

Have you heard of the planet Umbara before? The Star Wars fan who has seen only the movies will likely say no, and even...

One of the fun things about this hobby is that certain tropes repeat themselves constantly. And they're usually weirdly specific tropes, too. Poop quests,...

We have all talked at length about which classes we prefer to play, but adventuring around in MMOs sometimes involves being with (gasp) other...

Justin and Bree cover Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire, LOTRO's Mordor, Final Fantasy XIV's playerbase, Dual Universe's investment, and NCsoft's financials, then interview H1Z1: Just Survive Creative Director Ben Jones.

Hey, kids! Want to read a big long interview with Cliff Bleszinski about launching LawBreakers? Because you probably shouldn't read it if you're an...

A couple of months ago, Lifehacker ran an article that might just save somebody: It's titled How to Cut Back on Playing Video Games,...

This past weekend, the gaming segment of my Twitter feed was positively dominated by chatter about Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion free preview weekend. I...

Last time around, we looked at the jobs everyone thinks is deep in the loser category in Final Fantasy XIV. Some of them are...

Mounts are the big new thing in Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion, and as I've previously mentioned, I was initially concerned about...

Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column through which we all band together to help someone get on top of his or her guild-related...

There are a lot of games out there with really great cosmetic systems. But a great system in and of itself doesn't mean that...

In the pantheon of SOE's (now Daybreak) flagship EverQuest franchise, there used to be a whole family of MMOs gathered around the table every evening....

MMOs are nothing if not deeply invested in combat as a core system, and as such, developers have come up with every fighting style...

Gamasutra has an unusual piece from an Ubisoft developer this week arguing that co-op gameplay is the industry's rising midcore trend, one that he...

Update: It's up, go go go! Ahead of its September 22nd launch, Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion will be on public display this...

I admit to being worried about Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion release as the year wore on and we'd still heard nothing....

It took me a very long time to cap out everything in Final Fantasy XIV when Heavensward was current. Until the moogle questline was...