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Thanks to a recent piece by MMO Folklorist, I learned something that I had never known about The Secret World: Apparently, in early development...

One of Lord of the Rings Online's smallest servers took another step toward rounding out the game map this week. On Wednesday, Standing Stone...

You know how some people like to push this narrative that "MMOs are dying?" If that were actually true, then my job to round...

When you lost your way to Castle Greyskull and can't find your magic transforming sword, all you can rely on is your sheer innate...

The other day I was watching a retrospective video on Star Wars Galaxies, and the host was saying how he had a hard time...

I know that not everyone does "resolutions," and that even most folks who make them don't actually stick with them. And when it comes...

Ever since taking over the reins of Lord of the Rings Online's soundtrack, Composer Bill Champagne has grown in leaps and bounds in his...

Every year when I do this post, I muse about what "value" actually means for MMOs because it's actually a tricky proposition and that...

Change is good, especially when it comes to adding new holiday content to events. However, after the week that Massively OP's MJ has had,...

Here's the thing about MMO community: There exists no perfect one. Every single one of them has bad elements. Some of them are out...

Where has the year gone? Fall has wrapped up, winter is beginning, and the end of the year draws nigh. Today, many will be...

For our very last One Shots column of 2022, we're going to take a break from the routine to hand out awards to our...

Last-minute holiday shopping can be brutal! To get in the right mood for this, Massively OP's MJ will be honing her skills in...

One of the underrated aspects of being an MMO player is that our games get more updates and expansions than almost any other type...

How big does an MMORPG grow when you put 15 years of continual development into it? You can see for yourself, as a Lord...

Justin and Bree discuss MMO winter holidays, Chris Metzen's return to WoW, WoW's trading post, Blizzard still hunting for a China publisher, My.Games leaving Russia, and Elder Scrolls Online altering its annual roadmap, with a voice mail topic on the Twitch drops phenomenon.

Last year, I singled out Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons - then already on our horizon - as being worthy of the "best...

"Best crafting" has always been a hard pick for me as it's one of my core content magnets in an MMO, which tends to...

What did people and hobbits used to do before you could stream a fireplace on your television? Apparently, they hacked up tree corpses, dragged...

Holy cow, are we already wrapping up another year of Lord of the Rings Online? I've been writing this column since 2010, and I...