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In 2009, Dungeons & Dragons Online went free-to-play, which was a pretty big deal at the time. It was especially important to me, since...

It's June 26th, Star Wars Galaxies' 21st birthday, and I'm sitting on Google Meet talking to none other than MMORPG founding father (and SWG...

Ever since ArenaNet announced Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds expansion, there's been considerable debate among core Guild Wars 2 players and dedicated MMORPG housing...

A few weeks back, our team was discussing the intersection of survival sandboxes, MMORPG virtual worlds, and gankboxes - and how hard it is...

Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news! Business business business and all that. EngineOwning got owned - File this one...

We talk a lot about MMOs that fail here on Massively Overpowered. I wrote a whole column about how our standards of success are...

Normally in these Perfect Ten lists, I'm very outward-facing. I like to create lists that are as helpful or amusing as possible for others...

Even though all MMORPGs compete for our time, affection, and -- above all else -- money, it doesn't mean that they can't get along....

Here's some happy news for your Thursday: Skyforge has made it to nine years of life here in North America, or close enough as...

There's this ongoing common perception in MMOs like Lord of the Rings Online that player housing is good for one and only one purpose:...

It's been a running joke for a few years that I always put hot tubs in my MMO houses whenever possible, and once that...

Let's make something clear right up front: If you came into this column eager to head for the comments section to say, "Well, I...

About a month ago, MY.GAMES roused itself from its slumber and told Skyforge fans that in spite of its "long silence," development of the...

Robots are, let's face it, very important. You might say that's not true, and to that I say: When you get to write the...

It's been a disturbing long time since we heard much out of Skyforge - it's been two months since a Discord update and a...

Stormgate's marketing is laser-focused on studio Frost Giant's plan to deliver an "RTS revolution." With StarCraft II still popular but slowly waning as it...

Justin and Bree tackle a theme proposed by the listeners, as this show is all about MMORPG housing, including why housing matters, post-launch housing patches, placement tools, prefab vs. custom houses, housing as part of the gameplay loop, apartments vs. instanced vs. open-world housing, incentivizing housing use, taxes and monetization, and integrating housing into MMO ecosystems.

As you have probably noticed from the fact that I have been writing about City of Heroes nonstop since the Homecoming server got its...

Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...

For the past few years we've been peeking in with hopeful looks at Nexus Forever, the rogue server project for WildStar that we first...