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You may not like it, but the vast majority of MMORPGs are free-to-play or buy-to-play as of 2018. EVE Online went free-to-play at the...

A comment on Reddit about the current size and viability of Kritika Online got me thinking about MMO playerbases in general lately. We all...

Don't like the gear that you've slapped into your starship in Star Trek Online? Don't ditch or sell it, but instead improve it with...

Looking at the title, you might think that I believe Elder Scrolls Online is the perfect MMO, and in that case, you'd be incorrect....

After a few days of playing Bot Smashers at Hi-Rez Expo 2018 this past weekend, I sat down and talked shop with Rory Newbrough, Bot...

Here's the short rundown on Otherland's UI: It's terrible and the developers know it. Unfortunately, for a long stretch of the game's current management,...

Tell me if you've ever been here: You just finished spending way too much time pouring over options in the character creation screen and...

Hi-Rez Expo 2018 ended this weekend, which means my opportunity to play the studio's new 1v1 mobile game Bot Smashers has also ended. And...

Most online games have rules governing running from a fight, abandoning a team, or exiting the game to avoid gameplay, be they MMORPGs or...

The pirate factions of EVE Online have always been a threat. We're not talking about player pirates, mind you; we're talking about the NPC...

You know the lockbox thing is reaching saturation when there are so many things to cover we have to resort to a roundup. Nevertheless,...

If there's one thing that EVE Online does better than any other MMO on the market today, it's persistent gameplay on massive scales. The now-famous...

As much as the battle royale-flavored Battlegrounds is big news, it wasn't the only Paladins news at Hi-Rez Expo 2018. We also learned that there...

The bombshell of December 2017 was the news that Crytek was suing Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries, the companies behind the sprawling and...

Paladins got not one but four announcements at this year's Hi-Rez Expo. There's a brand-new team death match mode coming as well as new...

Half an eternity ago, my merry band of MMO PvPers and raiders ran headlong into a gang of roleplayers, and it changed my guild...

Most MMORPGs have the core sandbox problem: Whoever gets there first, controls all the toys and has the power to drive everyone else away....

It's the distant future. The high-tech battle armor you wear sharply contrasts with the ruins of civilization that you traverse. You spot an enemy...

May 8th, 2018. This date is important for players and community developers who are using older versions of EVE Online's API, as those legacy...

A few weeks ago, we posted our pick for best not-so-Massively game of 2017. Warframe narrowly won our award, firmly validated by the reader...