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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...
Choose My Adventure: A slow, steady, and informational search for Artemis in No Man’s Sky
I think I appreciate why last week’s voting had me follow the Artemis path, as this past week felt a bit like more tutorial...
Choose My Adventure: Exploring a new world and new bugs in No Man’s Sky
My goodness how things have changed.
I have had a brief peek at No Man's Sky once before, but only the barest peeks, so being...
Choose My Adventure: Counting the ways I love Dauntless
Thank you all for letting me close out this month with some Dauntless because I seriously love this game so very, very much.
I’ve been following...
Choose My Adventure: Good friends and bad player behavior in Star Wars Squadrons
Well, I was hoping for this to be more fun than it actually was. I adore the heck out of X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter,...
Choose My Adventure: Remnant From the Ashes is the action shooter MMO I didn’t know I wanted
I miss out on a lot of games. It happens. It’s bound to happen. There are likely countless numbers of titles that escape my...
Choose My Adventure: How Spellbreak kicked my butt
So, you’re first of all likely all wondering what happened to the voted-for Fallout 76 that was supposed to be part of this column....
Leaderboard: To which WoW expansion era will you send your Shadowlands alts first?
One of the more intriguing things about World of Warcraft Shadowlands, at least for me, is the game's new leveling system. While brand-new accounts...