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Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news. Numbers numbers numbers. In fact, this edition has the whole trifecta: business,...

Not every dungeon has to be a drab and dour affair — a fact that sent the Battle Bards searching for the cheeriest tunes...

StarCraft II ranks very highly on my list of my favourite games of all time, but while it remains popular, it is in maintenance...

If you were thinking that the open-source MMO Ryzom was missing a dash of RTS gameplay, then you might be riding the same brain...

This past weekend, I picked up my first premium house in Lord of the Rings Online after much hemming and hawing. I didn't expect...

World of Warcraft announced that it banned 145,566 accounts in August, saying, "All of these actions were for cheating or exploitation, which primarily result...

Syl and Syp return to the vast library of NCsoft’s MMO soundtracks, with games like Aion, Lineage, and Blade & Soul to keep our...

There are still a few more weeks left in the summertime season, and that means there's racing to be had once again in Skyforge,...

Playing Wayfinder marks the first time in my games writing career that my impression of a game has involved quite so much of my...

Maybe I'm the only one to have stopped to think about it, but a great deal of the MMOs that we enjoy are based...

The label "cozy" is in increasing danger of becoming a watered-down label thanks to how much it's being used in culture these days. Yet...

Social media algorithms are a dangerous thing. A few weeks back, Reddit began recommending me the sub for Heroes of the Storm. Although I...

I think many of us are primed to roll our eyes at anyone who says "oh man, just keep playing, it gets better later...

In this age of increased anxiety and friction, there's a natural desire to retreat into safe spaces. And yet not all of us have...

Skyforge decided to play a little bit of leap frog for its Xbox version. The latest update to the game brought the Gorgonides season...

Justin and Bree discuss New World, World of Warcraft, WildStar, EverQuest 3, and EverQuest 2, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, and WoW, plus a mailbag topic on MMO systems we want simplified vs. complexified, which is too a word!

Spellcraft explained why it didn't hold a promised preseason event last month, saying, "In our last update we signaled our intent to run another...

Back in May, MOP's Justin penned a fun blog piece on his Bio Break blog about the games he wanted all the way back...

I knew that Tales of Arise wasn't really working for me like its immediate predecessor when I started kind of avoiding combat. Now, to a...

Well here's a little bit of a walk down memory lane - and a bright light shined on a dark period in MMO history:...