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After talking with Mark Jacobs the other week about the difficulty of balancing Camelot Unchained's 30 classes, it got my mind thinking of MMOs...

City of Heroes is gone, but the dedicated fans of the game aren't about to let a little thing like the title's shutdown prevent...

We've come a long way in our discussion of Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological...

In real life, when you die the penalty is... death. You just get that one go at things. But in MMOs, player characters are...

The influx of new player-generated-content-oriented MMOs might make you think that PGC is on the rise, but if you've been around the genre for...

Class-based systems are one of those holdovers from tabletop RPGs that work surprisingly well in MMOs. I basically put up with class systems in...

I cut my teeth on MMOs with the launch of Final Fantasy XI in America. My roommate in college was interested in the game,...

Do you feel a burning desire to get in and try out one of the intended spiritual successors to City of Heroes? Because you...

This week's Overthinking question comes to us from longtime Patron Roger. "If you guys could magically open a connection to any dev team, which team...

I hated pets when I first got started in MMORPGs. Pets in early MMOs had such terrible AI and were such a nuisance to...

The first year of Massively Overpowered had its ups and downs, like anything does, but I think we had some pretty great content in...

The dawn of a new year is a great time for many people to hit a tiny reset button on life. I’m doing that personally....

City of Titans doesn't seem to mind that some of its demo videos came to light over the past month, although the studio said that...

As the final pages turn on 2015, MMO bloggers engage in a favorite pastime of recalling their best and most notable gaming experiences of...

There is no way we can list all of the great updates in a given year. It's not possible. We are always going to...

Valiance Online doesn't see itself in direct competition with City of Titans for the throne of City of Heroes spiritual succession. How do we...

Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our most likely to flop in 2016 and beyond award. Last year, Star Citizen took home this dishonor, leading to...

I'm excessively picky about what I buy in MMO cash shops. I'll buy necessities like backpack and bank slots, character slots and classes. Occasionally I'll...

If you're a superhero fan or close to someone who is, you are certainly not lacking for options as to where to spend gobs...

It's been a while since I wrote a column that comes out on Thursdays, which means that it's also been a while since I've...