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Choose My Adventure: Assassinating randoms in The Elder Scrolls Online
It's weird how attitudes towards death vary depending on the video game and the structure set up. In Saints Row the Third, a friend...
Mech_Con 2016: MWO skill trees, game modes, and MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
As one might hope for from a convention, Mech_Con 2016 was a time to not only hang out with other fans and meet the...
Leaderboard: How judgmental are you about MMO chat grammar?
MOP reader Arsin Halfmoon recently wrote to us with an unexpected story. He's an English teacher in the real world, but far from being a...
MMO Mechanics: 2016’s MMORPG mechanics in review
The holiday season is finally upon us: My decorations are resurrected from their dark corner of my storage closets once more, Jack Frost is...
H1Z1 wants to put a bag over your head
H1Z1 doesn't think that you're ugly, per se, but... well, it thinks the world would be much better off if it didn't have to...
Choose My Adventure: My first week in the Elder Scrolls Online
Despite the fact that for this round of Choose My Adventure, I am jumping into The Elder Scrolls Online in an era of doing whatever...
The Daily Grind: How do you like to compete in MMOs?
Do you thrive on competition? Is the only time that you truly feel alive is when you're pitting your wit and skill against another...
Choose My Adventure: Getting ready for The Elder Scrolls Online
The votes have been tallied and the verdict is in; the next month of the column will be all about The Elder Scrolls Online....
Choose My Adventure: Don’t call it a comeback
Hello, dear readers. Would you like to tell me what to do for a while?
Choose My Adventure has been absent from the site for...
For Science: A third of our polled social media users quit Pokemon Go over trackers
Pokemon Go has received some large updates recently: the buddy system, medals, some big gym changes (twice), and now we've got dailies. We've been dazzled...
Leaderboard: What made you quit your last MMORPG?
As the subscription MMORPG continues to dwindle and be replaced by free-to-play games (where players come and go without notice) and buy-to-play games (which...
Leaderboard: How would you rate BlizzCon 2016?
During this past week's podcast, Justin, Eliot, and I debated the overall tenor of BlizzCon 2016 -- and found it more or less lacking....
Ascent: The Space Game’s presidential election and player-run GoFundMe
Among the fun quirks of sandboxes is the political intrigue they can spawn. One such drama is currently unfolding in indie sci-fi sandbox Ascent: The...
Leaderboard: How much do you expect to pay for the Diablo III Necro pack?
Diablo's 25th anniversary announcements at BlizzCon have been welcomed by some players and blasted by others. While a significant portion of the content --...
Leaderboard: Elder Scrolls Online vs. Skyrim HD
You might think this a biased Leaderboard for an MMORPG website to craft, but truthfully, I was an Elder Scrolls fangirl before I was an...
The Stream Team: Death doesn’t stop SWTOR’s Emperor
When you are really committed to your goals, why would you let a little thing like death stop you? In SWTOR, the Emperor sure...
Guild Wars 1 fans petition ArenaNet for HD remake
Here's some food for thought on an October morning: Would you be interested and/or willing to play a high definition remake of the original...
Leaderboard: Will Blizzard ever port World of Warcraft to console?
This past summer in a Daily Grind, we were discussing the issue of "dumbing down" in MMORPGs, specifically in World of Warcraft, when a...
Leaderboard: Will Blizzard announce Diablo 4 at BlizzCon?
We've now seen plenty of rumors of Diablo 4 floating around the internet, but there's nothing definitive at all. Blizzard is working on at least one...
The Secret World inspires a new hacking simulation game NITE Team 4
If you think a story-driven military hacking simulation game sounds right up The Secret World's alley, you'd be correct. In this case, TSW is...