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We got a wonderful "deep thoughts" email from reader James earlier this week that serves as the backdrop for this morning's Daily Grind. "It could...

Over the past several years, the way in which we receive gaming news and the types of gaming media we follow has changed pretty fundamentally. Today's...

In light of this past week's sad Landmark news, it's perhaps too on-the-nose that I asked for players to send in pictures of defunct...

Fiction writers know well of Joseph Campbell's identification and outline of the monomyth, or "hero's journey," in many stories. The 12-step process starts with...

Another iconic Star Trek character -- and the actor who portrayed him -- will be joining Star Trek Online's ever-growing ensemble cast, Cryptic and...

2016 was not Firefall's year. I'm not sure which year was its year, honestly, what with the e-sports bus fiasco and suspension of PvP and former CEO Mark...

For quite some time, players in Elite: Dangerous have been finding... oddities. Odd structures on planetary surfaces. Odd bits, here and there. They were...

Last night's startling news that Daybreak plans to sunset Landmark abruptly in February (while forbidding player emulators) sent the MMORPG community into... I'll call...

Sometimes you have to exclude something from a list. I could, for example, praise World of Warcraft: Legion for being a really good expansion...

Last April, we reported that the indie MMO Origins of Malu was suspending development as it sought investors to help fund the project. Since...

How about a feel-good story? Back in December, Digital Extremes kicked off a Warframe charity event called the Tennobaum Gifting Extravaganza (bonus points for...

Here we are again. Star Wars: The Old Republic survived another year despite those who predicted five years ago that it would shut down...

If you thought we lost a lot of MMOs in 2014 and 2015, wait until you see 2016's list. It's easy to shrug off some...

If you've been playing WildStar for a while, your character is probably at level 50. It's quite possible you have multiple characters at level...

The Darkspur Cartel is not one of the player factions in WildStar. Strictly speaking, it has no skin in the game and doesn't care...

Following the announcement of LOTRO and DDO's new studio and the subsequent cancellation of the Asheron's Call games, you can better believe that the...

Justin, Bree, Eliot, Larry, and MJ sit for a roundtable podcast on the best MMOs of 2016, the 2017 outlook, our annual awards, and MMO resolutions.

Last week, we posted a rundown of the most popular MMORPG articles of 2016, calculated strictly by the number of pageviews they got. Today, we're going...

This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we...

"We wanted to take some time to day and talk about the process, how lore is actually made for a video game, since that's...