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While there is nothing wrong with dropping some money on a worthy game, many of us are looking to be as frugal as possible...

This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...

There is a great feeling of flipping a calendar over to a fresh year, isn't there? All that promise and potential spread out in...

The down side of doing these columns at the end of the year every year is that there's a certain challenge of writing the...

When we sit back to look at the biggest headlines of the year, we don't have to look far. These are the stories that...

Everyone is healthy! Good news! Every game is super healthy and absolutely no one has a terminal playerbase disease that may result in the...

After 10 years of covering MMORPG news, I can assure you that I am still fired up to keep doing this. One of the...

So you've found an MMO you like. You're thankful that it exists. It's fun, it caters to your personal tastes, and it may not...

Lore is made up. We all know that. People who write the lore for games are not doing research into the real story and...

I'll admit that I was the first one out of my seat, applauding wildly, when Fallout 76 was first announced at Bethesda's E3 showcase...

As I was going through my first evening in ArcheAge Unchained, thanks to the new buy-to-play release, I was kicking myself for going into...

Not so long ago (so, at the rate news has come out since then, what feels like decades ago) I wrote a column about...

So, you all know that there's a Yelp equivalent in World of Warcraft, right? An awful lot of people forget about that, but Yelpcraft is seriously right there. It's been in the game since beta, which is why you can still look at it and see reviews about how zones would be much better if Paladins had talents and some ancient references to some terrible action star of the 1980s. Can't remember which one. Dolph Lundgren, probably.

The rise of crowdfunding in the mid-2010s swept a large wave of MMORPGs our way that might never have happened otherwise. For a while...

When studios go about making MMORPGs, risk comes along with the effect as a matter of course. The only question is how to reduce...

As has been noted before, Natusko Ishikawa is a treasure. Reading an interview with her about her work on Final Fantasy XIV's latest expansion reminded...

Even though I half-expected it for a while now, the news of Fallen Earth's demise earlier this month made my heart sink. Way back...

There are two statements frequently made with regard to MMOs that seem like linked clauses, but they're not. "MMOs are social games" is a...

I don't really have to tell you this, but creating an MMORPG is a huge undertaking. These are some of the most complex games...

It's been a strange week. No - it's been a strange year in MMO gaming, all things considered. As I'm going through old Lord...