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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...

The other night, I was reading the Final Fantasy XIV subreddit and came across that gem of all gems for people who love badly...

Here's a fun little trivia fact that you probably already know: Computers can't really do randomness. A random number is usually generated by pulling...

Look, you've probably heard this before, but it bears repeating now: Don't pre-order that game. Pre-ordering games is a bad idea. And this week,...

People who have read my work for a while know that I really like tabletop roleplaying, and I have copies of two of my...

So now that Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers has been released, basically everyone playing the game has completely forgotten that the expansion actually prompted some...

There are, at the time I write this, two basic approaches for getting new players up to speed in existing MMOs. Both of them...

I've been thinking a lot about esports lately. This is not actually something I like to think about, mind you; my general attitude toward esports...

Here's an interesting fact of trivia for you for today: I am pretty much clocked out when it comes to news about H1Z1. The game...

When you play Final Fantasy XIV, you are going to be stuck playing one of an assortment of jobs, with no actual customization to distinguish...

Recently, I've been trying to get into Bloodborne. This isn't a result of my disliking the Souls franchise as a whole, just that it's never...

Let me tell you about last year's NaNoWriMo project. If you've never taken part in National Novel Writing Month, it's a great reason to...

The community is not the MMO. That should be obvious. There is a game to League of Legends that exists without any of the toxic...

This is the story of Stanley. Stanley had a hobby, and that hobby was playing MMOs. Every day, he logged in to Final Fantasy XI, where...

Here's a fun question to ask yourself when you're doing basically anything in an MMO: Why am I doing this? It's usually at once...

Today, I want to start thing off by talking about Final Fantasy. This is not entirely surprising. What may be surprising is that I'm talking about Final...

When I first pitched the Vague Patch Notes that ran a couple weeks back, it prompted a big long discussion with MOP's editor Bree...

One of those phrases we like to use a fair amount here is the fact that running an MMO is a marathon, not a...

Yes, it's another week in which we talk about abstract concepts that underpin the way we play video games, this time inspired by a...

One of the most important things to have when you're thinking about games and their design is reference material. It's one of the things...