the secret world

Last week, we got a well-intentioned email from a reader named Rick, who proposed a column in which readers tell us what they are...

While some consider the acquisition of stuff to be distracting to gameplay, others of us know that it is actually a vital part of...

It's been a big week for the supposedly-in-maintenance-mode Age of Conan: First it got a new time-limited progression server, then it lowered its sub...

Yes officer, these Battle Bards were well above the speed limit and violated many noise complaints in the local neighborhoods. But it was for...

Sometimes you really want to stick around to the very end of developer livestreams for any surprise announcements. In Friday's dev stream, Funcom shocked...

Although Massively OP's MJ has never gotten close to needing extra keys beyond her daily allotment in Secret World Legends, she's still going to take...

Players who like to run dungeons, lairs, and scenarios for loot in Secret World Legends can do so with reckless abandon this weekend --...

How much is too much? To some, that might seem like a reasonable question. But I knew. I knew. There is no such thing as...

Now that we're almost 1/12th of the way through 2018, it's probably about time to stop anticipating the year and start experiencing it. We...

A couple of months ago, after we learned about the sunset of Marvel Heroes but before it actually happened early, we asked our local...

What does Secret World Legends have in store for 2018? For the world, or for me? Either answer includes Season 2 of the story!...

By coincidence, two articles in my feeds this past week both centered on video game hoarding - not hoarding the actual games but hoarding...

Even though Massively OP's MJ rushed ahead through Secret World Legends' main story so she wouldn't miss out on Krampusnacht lore, there's still much...

Scraps of hope, brief Twitter conversations, and small hotfixes: These are the things that the Secret World Legends community are hanging onto these days...

This is, bar none, the column I hate doing most on a regular basis. None of the games I highlight in here is something...

A comment on Reddit about the current size and viability of Kritika Online got me thinking about MMO playerbases in general lately. We all...

As the Secret World Legends community continues to hold its breath in anticipation of what Funcom is planning for 2018, movement arrives in an...

As our review of the past year of Choose My Adventure rolls onward (a bit longer than originally planned), we enter what I think...

Justin, Bree, Eliot, MJ, Larry, Brendan, Tina, and Andrew sit for a roundtable on the MMOs we played in 2017, our 2018 resolutions, and the site's 2017 awards, with mailbag questions on MMO food, PvP, investigation content, business models worse than lockboxes, and the state of the site.

Well, 2017 was interesting. It's not often that your favorite game starts off as one game at the beginning of the year and then...