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Justin and Bree discuss the Harry Potter mobile MMOARG; progression servers for RIFT, LOTRO, and EverQuest; No Man's Sky's MMO ambitions; WoW 8.1.5; Blade & Soul's next big thing; and The Division 2's sleepy launch. With reader mail on factional divides, the death of playable races, and staying healthy while gaming.

There is nothing if not a whole lot of lore in Lord of the Rings. Tolkien's Middle-earth is positively brimming with it, after all,...

We can all point to the many, many video game and pop culture tropes that infest MMORPGs to both our amusement and annoyance. From...

Dust off that goat and ride fiercely into Khazad-dûm, for the vast underground kingdom is finally open for business on Lord of the Rings...

When Justin mentioned to me on this week's podcast the rumor that Lord of the Rings Online's and Dungeons and Dragons Online's multi-day downtime...

A week after Lord of the Rings Online spent several consecutive days in the dark, the Tolkien MMORPG is preparing to send players into...

Justin and Bree deep-dive Torchlight Frontiers and discuss Path of Exile's Synthesis, the great LOTRO and DDO outage of 2019, the impending end of Kritika Online and the Foundry system in Star Trek Online and Neverwinter, Guild Wars 2's warclaw, Alganon, and a mailbag topic about housing in MMOs.

Out of all of Lord of the Rings Online's additional features that it has added post-launch, skirmishes have my vote as one of the...

For a moment there, it looked as though the multi-day saga of LOTRO and DDO downtime was finally over. And then everything blew up. You...

What began as a one-day downtime to work on a data center has now stretched into three days of offline status for both Lord...

Fallout 76's dev blog a few weeks ago about its upcoming brewing and distilling skills - which are actually surprisingly detailed - got me...

While we knew that yesterday's extended downtime for both of Standing Stone Games' MMOs was going to be lengthy, initially there was hope that...

With both LOTRO and DDO down for most of today due to server work, there are plenty of MMO gamers looking for something to...

Ooh Justin, them's fightin' words! We don't often have the luxury of seeing two full-fledged MMORPGs handle the same intellectual property, especially in vastly different...

Justin and Bree discuss Funcom's Dune, Anarchy Online's prog, Elder Scrolls Online's Wrathstone, Atlas' wipe, Guild Wars 2's layoffs, DDO's Sharn expansion, and Outlaws of the Old West, with adventures in Eldevin, LOTRO, Paragon Chat, Trove, and SWG; a mailbag question on finding laid-back MMOs; and a sponsored segment on Black Desert.

The excitement is ramping up for Dungeons and Dragons Online: Masterminds of Sharn, the spring expansion that's already in testing on the Lamannia server. In...

Hobbits are taking an extended siesta this week in Lord of the Rings Online. On Monday, March 4th, the game is coming down for a...

If you like BioWare, high tech eye candy, blowing crap up, or riding the current wave of Hot New Game Releases, chances are that...

If you haven't been hanging out with the folks at MMO Bookclub lately, you may have missed a shift in the format that's expanded...