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The first time that I heard about the unofficial "Hardcore Classic" scene for WoW Classic, I didn't get it. The idea of voluntary permadeath...

So here's something funny to consider: No matter what happens, Blizzard has collectively backed itself into a corner with World of Warcraft expansions over...

As we've been noting for the last week, the WoW Classic Wrath of the Lich King pre-patch launch hasn't gone to plan, largely thanks...

I've been thinking about this topic ever since Blizzard tweeted a joke about "cursed mogs" in World of Warcraft. Honestly, while vanilla WoW definitely...

Last month, the MMORPG subreddit slept on a good thread about picking classes in MMOs. Let's wake this sucker up. "Am I the only...

While it's been a blast stepping back into an era where I can re-experience World of Warcraft as it once was, playing WoW Classic...

With TV streaming services that dump entire seasons of shows on us at once, we have become a society that is used to binging...

For the old and grizzled World of Warcraft vets, dungeon delves were a longer process than they are nowadays. Why was that, exactly? A...

You better savor these content updates, WoW Classic players, because there are only a finite number of them left. Out of all of the...

I am amused and somewhat bewildered to admit that I have my very own pet troll. He follows me around on Reddit to hassle...

Game designer Brian Green has been on a writing streak as of late with a whole series of blog posts about roleplaying in MMORPGs....

They almost got me, but not in the end. Right around 3 p.m. yesterday, just before the servers went live, in spite of my...

There's a contingent of players looking forward to the launch of World of Warcraft: Classic next week that is vocally thrilled about one specific...

With half the MMO community in a frenzy about the coming of World of Warcraft Classic this summer, many a gamer's mind has turned...

It is probably important to realize that no matter how carefully Blizzard developers recreate the early days of World of Warcraft for WoW Classic,...

Blogger and MOP reader Serrenity recently pointed us to a Kotaku article on the subject of video game nostalgia. Author Alyse Knorr maintains that...

Let's get something out of the way first and foremost. I am not going to count Warcraft III: Reforged as a smart thing for...

It's been a while since we checked in on Em-8ER, Mark Kern's frustratingly named "massive planetary wargame," so we're rectifying that today. MMO players will...

Massively OP reader Sorrior recently sent in a question about raiding, a topic we haven't discussed in a while. "I have noticed raiding tends to...

Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...