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The Daily Grind: What’s your current backup MMORPG?
I'm really enjoying what I'm considering my second wind in MMORPGs, fam. I had a rough spot in the mid-teens after the original Star...
Working As Intended: Cloud City apartments and player cities on Star Wars Galaxies Legends
It's been a while since I did a deep-dive into Star Wars Galaxies Legends, the rogue server that's been one of my main MMORPG...
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s date night patch goes live on Tuesday
Don't be deceived by the over-abundance of decimal points -- Star Wars: The Old Republic's Update 7.4.1 will be fully operational and chock-full of...
PlanetSide 2 acknowledges ‘earned consternation’ over its warzone continent
It's always an unsettling feeling when a game -- or its IP, at least -- gets sold off but nobody really talks about it...
Vague Patch Notes: Sort your own MMO community, guy
One of the things I note is that every so often - not all the time, but every so often - something will just...
Star Citizen highlights alpha 3.23’s updates to FPS reloading, recoil, and aiming
There are a lot of times when players of Star Citizen need to clamber out of their favorite internet spaceship in order to get...
Star Citizen and Squadron 42 recount February’s efforts while a dev makes a surprising reference to ‘SC 1.0’
It's time once more for Star Citizen and Squadron 42 to turn in their respective book reports and regale followers with February development reports,...
Hey game devs, stop namedropping Star Wars Galaxies and make a spiritual successor
If you're an MMORPG gamer who watches the mainstream gaming space, you probably know that most gaming sites take any opportunity they can get...
Perfect Ten: MMOs where you can play as robots and cyborgs
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...
So who wants hoverboards? Destiny 2’s Guardian Games is live with free stuff
Who do you you love? Hover... boards. And by god, Destiny 2 is going to deliver them. Right now, in fact, as the much-touted...
The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on ‘backfilling’ in instanced MMO content?
My husband and son have been playing a lot of Destiny 2 again, and a few weekends back I overheard them complaining about backfilling....
The Stream Team: Refilling the pages of Warframe’s grimoire
Just because Massively OP's MJ has finished Warframe's Whispers in the Walls story doesn't mean she's done with the content. No, no! Now, she...
Former Bungie composer announces he doesn’t want to enter politics but is running for Congress anyway
Most people nowadays can only dream of being able to retire in general comfort and security, but it looks as if former Destiny and...
Wisdom of Nym: What people don’t really get about the Warrior of Light in Final Fantasy XIV
Not so long ago, I saw a very foolish comment complaining about Final Fantasy XIV from someone who did not play or think about...
Elite Dangerous players successfully destroy the first Thargoid Titan
Update 18 of Elite: Dangerous was subtitled Kill the Titans, so that headline is probably a foregone conclusion, but all the same it's worth...
Destiny 2’s Guardian Games event will give everyone a sweet hoverboard March 5
The Guardian Games event in Destiny 2 is about a lot of things - medals, bragging rights, friendly competition - but this year's event...
The MOP Up: Lost Skies gets downright cozy inside of its ships
Lost Skies' February dev blog showed off some UX work, early prototypes of its weapon damage system, and some super-cozy ship interior concepts. Also, the...
Star Citizen provides a close look at the interior of the Idris capital ship
Last weekend, Star Citizen challenged its players to wrest control of an Idris capital ship from developers in a special in-game event, which was...
One Shots: Slice me a chunk of that moon cheese, would ya
You have to love the absolute hubris of Jedi in Star Wars because there's no object that they don't think they can levitate, smash,...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends turns eight years old with badges, paintings, and a history lesson
It's hard for me to believe that Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends is officially eight years old this week, but it's true,...
