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Leaderboard: So, is RIFT next?
Gamigo, which just bought the studio behind Wizard101 and Pirate101, cleaned house yesterday, purging multiple MMORPGs that it acquired during its past acquisitions of...
Choose My Adventure: In search of RvR in WAR Return of Reckoning; first steps in Darkfall Rise of Agon
The Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning has effectively transformed into me doing two games at once for Choose My Adventure. Let me explain.
First, I...
Choose My Adventure: Battleground PvP in Warhammer Return of Reckoning is unexpectedly fun
I was not anticipating this.
I came to this week’s assignment with not an inconsiderable level of dread. My previous experiences in PvPing were coloring...
Choose My Adventure: An intriguing but PvP-free first foray into Warhammer Return of Reckoning
I promised that this month's CMA column would feature my attempts at getting into some PvP MMO action. Sadly for you (but mercifully for...
Choose My Adventure: My post-level 30 life in ArcheAge
Well, this final week of my time in ArcheAge was indeed challenging, but not perhaps in the ways that were expected.
Almost overwhelmingly it was...
Choose My Adventure: My ArcheAge mage is an absolute monster
This was a close poll, but I am pretty happy with the choice to bring Witchcraft into my Auramancy and Malediction mage in ArcheAge...
Leaderboard: What’s more important in an MMO – character visuals or world visuals?
When I first got to Massively-that-was, well over 10 years ago now, one of my tasks became front-page editing, meaning I had to keep...
Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2021?
Yep, it's that time of year again: We've been doing this recap for the last several years, although this one is going to be...
Choose My Adventure: Oops, I completely forgot to do the main quest in ArcheAge
Yes. Yes, that happened. I absolutely am an idiot.
This week in CMA saw me rambling onward in ArcheAge with a fresh set of skills...
Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2020?
Longtime readers will know we've been granting an official end-of-the-year award for the most underrated MMO for several years now. But it comes along...
Leaderboard: What was the best new MMO or online game of 2020?
It's been a long time since a brand-new MMORPG really deserved a GOTY award - in fact, my my reckoning, it was was 2016,...
Choose My Adventure: The extremely guided tour through the opening segments of ArcheAge
Look, I appreciate how a sandbox game should start people off by guiding them in to what's possible, but much like Black Desert, ArcheAge...
The best Massively OP community leaderboard polls, 2020 edition
We didn't do quite as many Leaderboard polls this year as in previous years, largely because... well, we've already asked a lot of the...
Leaderboard: What’s the best classic MMORPG still running at the end of 2020?
It's been a longstanding problem that end-of-the-year awards for MMORPGs aren't ideal for honoring "classic" MMOs, especially the really old games, really small games,...
Choose My Adventure: My time as a volunteer for the Responders in Fallout 76
As per your instructions, I was voluntold to volunteer for the Responders for my return trip to Fallout 76, and boy was it something...
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2020
It'd be spectacularly easy -- routine, even -- to look back at the year gone with derision, bitterness, and all sorts of acrid snark,...
Choose My Adventure: Simply skipping through quests small and large in Fallout 76
I'm not sure that this week has fully inured me to Fallout 76, but I will say that things were starting to come together...
Choose My Adventure: Fallout 76 and my fight against the all too familiar feeling of not caring
I wish I could say that I'm arriving to Fallout 76 without any sort of pre-formed opinions. I haven't ever touched this game since...
Choose My Adventure: Surprise storytelling in No Man’s Sky’s base building progression
It was often remarked going in to this week’s Choose My Adventure task that base building in No Man’s Sky is something of a...
Choose My Adventure: Paradise planets, destroyed freighters, and hellbeasts in No Man’s Sky
It would be super easy for me to make this week's ride in No Man's Sky a picture book. Not just because the game...
