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Champions Online starts its four-week anniversary event
At one year shy of a full decade, Champions Online has defied all odds to become the longest-running superhero MMORPG on the planet. That...
Vague Patch Notes: Casual no longer means anything in MMOs
Every time I see someone write something about casual players - including me because heavens know I've done it too - I feel a...
Massively Overthinking: What’s your favorite MMORPG swag of all time?
In a conversation about the recent Starflight 3 Fig campaign - which you won't see covered here since it's not multiplayer, but let me...
Battle Bards Episode 127: Champions Online
When you sit down to make a list of the greatest heroes that humanity has ever known, obviously the Battle Bards will top that...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with the most needlessly obtuse stats
One of my favorite reviewers of tabletop RPGs at one point opined that percentile systems were one of the best tabletop mechanics possible, simply...
The Daily Grind: Do you have any strange MMORPG memory associations, and what are they?
I've been thinking about this topic for a few weeks, ever since MJ and I did a stream on the City of Heroes base...
The Game Archaeologist: City of Villains, enhancement diversification, and Going Rogue
It's always easy to look back at the making of City of Heroes and its first year with a memory tinted toward the good...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO gives you the best choices for character growth?
Between the talent panel and the new Heart of Azeroth interface, World of Warcraft's dev team certainly has embraced the concept of streamlined "interesting...
City of Titans teases its City of Heroes-inspired aura system
It's feeling like superhero week here - Champions Online turning nine, Valiance Online revving up, and now we've got a sneak peek of City...
Vague Patch Notes: On scaling and meaningful advancement in WoW and other MMORPGs
It seems like pretty much nobody is happy with how scaling is working in World of Warcraft at the moment. The game's scaling means...
Valiance Online starts churning out costumes, promises a bunch of new patches soon
Why be a superhero if you can't look the part? That's half the fun, although nobody really explains in movies and comic books where...
Champions Online turns nine with concerts, cake, and cat-rescuing missions
If you've been around the MMORPG 'verse for a while, you surely remember August 30th, 2009, when Champions Online launched with its ill-fated day-one...
First impressions of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, part 4: Conclusions
Part four covers expansion odds and ends plus the conclusion to our series: the problem with Azerite, progression, and why the expansion isn't bad, just weakly executed.
Champions Online challenges you to a race
Looking for some superheroic fun to occupy your time this weekend? Champions Online has brought back its Circus Malvanum event with its vehicle theme....
Massively Overthinking: Would you want to play a League of Legends or Diablo MMORPG?
Over the last couple of weeks, we've had some tantalizing rumors and teases that both Riot Games and Blizzard are building something new: Riot's...
The Game Archaeologist: City of Heroes’ launch history and the Marvel lawsuit
In our first part of this series looking back at the stupendous history of City of Heroes, we saw how the idea for this...
One Shots: Selfie school
I certainly did not have to twist readers' arms to get them to bring out a mountain of MMORPG character selfies set against interesting...
Take a peek at the development of Shroud of the Avatar’s player-designed dungeon system
Drama seems to plague Shroud of the Avatar, but if you can look past it, there's some fun innovation going on inside Portalarium in...
City of Titans explains costume unlocking
A recent post by the City of Titans team in which it briefly mentioned "costume unlocks" for the upcoming superhero MMO got the community's...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO features that deserve widespread adaptation
You know what gets me excited about upcoming MMOs? It's certainly not the list of expected systems and features that have since become standard...
