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We're in the age where it seems like every video game released under the sun has its own personal reveal show, and Minecraft was...

Have you ever attended a birthday party that was thrown by the birthday boy or girl in question? It's a curious exercise in ego...

It's a real toss-up whether Trove's "Hubdate" patch or Blizzard's "BlizzConline" is going to win the prestigious award for "Most Annoyingly Clever MMO Portmanteau."...

Life Beyond's recent patch is a spot of good news for budding builders: "With this release, buildings get free energy so you don't have...

When you think of post-apocalyptic video games, what comes to mind? Most likely it's a crawl through a bombed-out or zombiefied landscape as you...

I swear, so many of the posts I bookmark on Reddit to muse on later wind up deleted, and today I've got another one,...

Dr. Destroyer. Boy, what a comic book-y villain name. I love his '80s-style cheese. I love his Marc Silvestri-looking metallic outfit. And I love...

The Epic/Apple legal drama continues as this week Apple's filed its response to Epic's request to force Fortnite back on the Appstore, and you...

With the number of MMOs under the Gamigo umbrella, it's perhaps easy for some of their updates to fall through the cracks, so consider...

We're only in the early vestiges of autumn in our part of the hemisphere, but in the co-op roguelike world of Minecraft Dungeons, it's...

Ah, the main hub. Landing point for new players, social space for veteran players, and generally the first impression made to all players. If...

With JPRG-like survival sandbox Craftopia now in early access, the focus of developer Pocket Pair has turned almost exclusively to attacking bugs in the...

In this column, we have previously journeyed to lands where you saw not with your eyes, but with your imagination. I speak, of course,...

Not even the venerable gaming classic Super Mario Bros. is safe from the battle royale sub-genre, it seems. It's time to say hello to...

Hegemony, the self-described "classic" sandbox MMORPG built upon the framework of Minecraft, is expanding. As in literally releasing an expansion. Or at least an...

Tipa over at Chasing Dings recently posed an intriguing question to her friends and readers: Does crafting have any place in the modern MMO?...

The Elder Scrolls Online is apparently going to celebrate the Imperial City of the game's fiction by having people fight Daedra and one another....

Having perfected their musical time machine, the Battle Bards leap back to the past to enjoy the soundscapes of dinosaurs and other prehistoric denizens....

Whenever the topic of Flagship Studios comes up, usually it's in conjunction with Hellgate: London. And while Hellgate certainly was a huge and ultimately...

Longtime MOP reader Ken from Chicago recently asked us to talk about crafting - but he didn't want us to just list off the...