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One of my favorite modern trends of MMORPGs is that studios are no longer saving the entirety of a soundtrack for the base game or expansion releases. Oh sure, those usually get a great album push -- especially if it's one of the bigger games -- but for a while now, many studios have also been releasing new music on a steady basis with significant content patches.

Justin, Bree, and Eliot discuss the Blizzard boytcott and fiasco, the Daybreak layoffs, Shroud of the Avatar's sell-off, the Guild Wars 2 hacker piece, and a few happier stories too.

Following last week's nasty Blizzard Hong Kong mess, many players publicly stepped away from the studio and its games, in some cases deleting...

The past week was sure a trip, and a good chunk of it for me was taken up by stuff I didn't want to...

When has something as mundane and nondescript as a bush ever been a helpful hero? And when have we ever featured a MapleStory...

Very few of us are in a situation wherein large men are perched behind us claiming that something horrible will happen to our loved...

It'd be nice enough if Final Fantasy XIV had a system for musical performances that was just dropped in the game and then functionally...

It's time for a whole lot of reveals for Final Fantasy XIV, starting with the special site for patch 5.1 having gone up....

Another month rolling in means another patch for Final Fantasy XI, but it also means a new set of login rewards available for...

You remember the Final Fantasy XIV collaboration with GARO, right? It's hard to forget it; where else can you get an invisible shield, mechanical...

A while back, at the height of the WoW Classic hype, there was a thread on the MMORPG subreddit by an author...

If you twist them enough, the parallels between single-player zombie horror series Resident Evil and multiplayer action RPG Monster Hunter: World can be...

If we get more than two more expansions in Final Fantasy XIV, we're going to be moving into some interesting territory: Players are at...

KurtzPel is getting its newest hero, Lime, very soon, and to lead up to her release the game is winging a CP...

It is fairly rare for an MMORPG to sell an official soundtrack these days unless the game is fairly prominent (i.e., Final Fantasy...

I love a good cozy place in an MMO, moreso if it's got a fully stocked snack bar and some of my all-time favorite...

If there's one recurring complaint about housing in Final Fantasy XIV (and there is), it's that there just aren't enough houses to go around....

An MOP reader named Thierry recently pointed us to a brewing storm in the World of Warcraft Classic community: In a nutshell, the...

Isn't it nice when you get something good by association? The next major patch for Final Fantasy XI is scheduled for October, and...

You may have noticed that players with Mentor crowns in Final Fantasy XIV are... well, not necessarily the people you would want teaching new players...