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Is it just me, or is the latest fad among MMORPGs to stage incredibly brief in-game events? Like blink -- or have a 12-hour...

Last night, Elite Dangerous studio Frontier announced the winner of its second CTRL+ALT+SPACE short film competition. Participants were tasked with creating a video under four minutes...

Your favorite MMO is going to die. Don't take it personally, though; every other MMO is going to shut down, too. That includes my...

Whenever I hear about or get into a new MMO, one of the very first things I'll be asking is if the game has...

"I can't help but think that I'd rather see a single-player adaptation of The Secret World than to lose it forever if Funcom truly...

Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...

There are games that simply do not hold up past the demo, and frankly I've played a lot of those in Boston. Usually those are...

Could ARK: Survival Evolved finally be launching? That's a question many survivors would love to see answered soon. Unfortunately, we can't provide you with...

When I feel like lying to myself, I tell myself that I don't care about optimizing my characters in MMOs. I even sometimes convince...

With all of the hullabaloo going on concerning Ashes of Creation and its Kickstarter campaign, a few bloggers are asking themselves whether or not...

So, Age of Conan players. Let's talk. I know this year has been kinda rough on you. You found out, as we did, that...

I have always found this part of the development cycle to be the worst part. Right now, we are sitting at the point in...

I sincerely do not envy the task of MMO studios and community managers when it comes to wrangling their crowd of diverse, fickle, and...

On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin is joined by MJ to chit-chat about The Secret World (Legends), ESO Morrowind, TERA, RIFT, Wild West Online, Guild Wars 2, ARK, Conan Exiles, EverQuest II, Warframe, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs, F2P MMO recommendations, and our old Marvel Heroes guild.

I've managed to calm myself enough after finishing my Guild Wars 2 Flashpoint initial impressions piece two weeks ago to bring you a much more detailed...

The latest SMBC comic is going to have my fellow MMO fans nodding enthusiastically: In response to the first man, who says we need to...

It may sound crazy, but a huge number of people who pour eyeball time and money into e-sports don't even play the games they're...

By the time you read this, I'll be up in the air flying across the country. Assuming you read it on the day it...

A week or so ago, I took an ARK: Survival Evolved post out of our newsroom to write up, expecting something mundane. I'm an...

EVE Online is often painted as a harsh universe without rules where you could have your entire net worth destroyed or swiped right from under...