the daily grind

The entire internet (only a slight exaggeration there) exploded this week over Valve's decision to work with selected game studios to allow modders to charge for...

I didn't know hybrid classes were a thing, really, until I picked up classic EverQuest way back in 1999. Most of the roleplaying games I'd...

I read yesterday's news about Meridian 59 with interest because it's one of the few genre titles that was before my time. My MMO obsession began...

This morning's Daily Grind comes to us from an anonymous Kickstarter donor with a deceptively simple question: Which MMO zone is the most relaxing? A lot...

Last week, Firefly Online announced that it had scooped up almost all of the old Firefly cast members to voice the multiplatform online-but-not-really-an-MMO. Cue internet...

MMO loading screen text varies widely from game to game. Some titles choose to put snippets of lore on their loading screens, while others...

I won't pretend that I'm one of the biggest fans of the game, but I'm really glad that Triple Triad is a thing in...

If one weapon is neat, then two must be twice as great, right? That seems to be the thought process behind dual-wielding in video...

Massively OP's Mike Foster said something that resonated with me earlier this week when during a debate about World of Warcraft, he uttered, "I...

I've been playing GTA V an absurd amount since Monday. It's basically two games, though, which is problematic for an already overloaded schedule. I...

I am a horrible, horrible chess player. It's not that I don't understand the game or have the mind for basic strategies but that...

Today's Daily Grind comes to us from Kickstarter donor Diskonekted, who asks one of the genre's million-dollar questions: What features or technology from older MMOs are...

Did you watch Game of Thrones last night? I didn't. I'll get around to it eventually, though, I'm sure. How about a Game of...

As a roleplayer, I have a lot of different character types that I've played, lots of different archetypes and the like. However, taking any...

There are few things more annoying than a developer promoting an upcoming feature or change and then never delivering on it. Four expansions later,...

Whenever I talk about Ultima Online to someone who wasn't there when it was a big thing, I admit to feeling as if I...

I've been fooling about in Elder Scrolls Online this week, and in some ways it's like coming home. I wrote Massively's ESO column for...

Emulators. They're a touchy, murky, grey-area subject for many people and one that we don't touch on a lot here on the site due...

I was basically still a kid when I first started playing MMOs, and my first, of course, was the wild west of the newly...

The strangest thing has been happening to me here lately. I... I think I'm becoming a MOBA fan. It's not that I had anything...