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Almost three years ago, our writers and readers came together for a discussion about whether the age of the $15 subscription was coming to...

Recently, we got a great letter from a listener asking about an issue that he'd been having with single-player games compared to MMOs. Essentially,...

Here's the good news for most of the people reading this: You are probably not being affected by packet loss issues while playing Final...

Well, the TERA sunset thing caught me off guard. I don't play TERA, but I was always under the impression that the game was...

MMOs require new blood. Not exclusively or anything; you can keep an MMO going for quite some time on existing happy players. But existing...

Justin and Bree discuss the state of Star Citizen, Final Fantasy XI's 20th birthday, Guild Wars 2's Sky Pirates, DDO's Isle of Dread, and EVE Online's EVE Anywhere, plus a mailbag topic on struggling with single-player games in the wake of MMOs.

If you're still not interested in PvP in Final Fantasy XIV despite the most recent patch's changes, the newly released patch 6.11a for the...

Even though City of Heroes Rebirth is a smaller rogue server in comparison to others out there, I was happy to notice that there...

Call us cynical, but we have the vague impression that all is not quite going according to plan when it comes to Babylon's Fall....

All right, let's start this column with a little thought exercise. I want you to come up with a weapon and a general flow...

As we all know by now, the Matrix is everywhere, and we've consigned ourselves to a lifetime of being a battery for robots. Which...

The Final Fantasy XI team is still not the best at talking to the game's North American fanbase, but it's getting better. (Getting better...

It is the 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy XI this week. Not the 20th anniversary of the game being in the US, and thus...

I vividly remember a conversation I had with my then-girlfriend's parents back in 1996 about the potential of this growing "internet" phenomenon. With my...

Just and Bree discuss Lost Ark's bots, FFXIV's mods, Star Trek Online's Stormfall, Elder Scrolls Online's High Isle, and Wrath Classic beta, with adventures in LOTRO and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on Black Desert's perceived decline.

So yes, it would appear that missions are indeed the most rewarding thing to do in City of Heroes: Rebirth. That would probably be the...

As of today, it's been two decades since Final Fantasy XI first launched in Japan, which makes this a pretty notable anniversary for the...

Here's the good news: If you were one of the players affected by the Final Fantasy XIV bug bug that gave you a winning...

This particular column was inspired by a question by regular reader, commenter, and friend to man and beast alike Scott Leyes, who originally posed...

Sometimes I wonder if our adventurers in these virtual worlds stumble upon locales so pretty and arresting that they pause and go, "You know...