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Last week on the MOP Podcast, we read a letter from a listener named Megan who pointed us to a blog post on the The...

At the beginning of the month, we were all horrified to cover the news that a Twitch streamer and (now former) Hi-Rez employee, Thomas...

Hey guys, remember when Battle for Azeroth launched and everyone was super excited to get their hands on the new Kul Tiran Human and...

It is 2003, and after several years of development and hype, Blizzard Entertainment sizes up its World of Warcraft project. The studio decides that...

Given the week that Activision-Blizzard just had - capping off a record financial year by haphazardly firing 800 employees, literally provoking union groups to...

When life -- and even gaming -- gets too hectic, where do you retreat to in order to find some peace and quiet? We...

In the MMO industry, science fiction has always taken the role of the overlooked little brother to big sister fantasy's popularity. Sure, there have...

The other day I was driving through my neighborhood and I happened to look at a cross-street that read WESTFALL. And, being the former...

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

Last week's Daily Grind about ambient sociability got a lot of MMO gamers talking about that desire to have people around, even if they...

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...

It's still early enough in 2019 to do articles about the upcoming year, right? Well, I'm doing this one anyway, so if it's too...

Activision-Blizzard's financial reports have been rather dull affairs for MMO gamers over the last few years, ever since the company stopped reporting World of...

Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard's troubles, New World, Star Citizen, Guild Wars 1, Tibia, RIFT, Elder Scrolls Online, and Astroneer, with mailbag questions on WoWfugees and the abandonment of Diablo III.

While World of Warcraft officially turned 14 years old last November, astute historians might remember that it wasn't for several months after that until...

When New World was announced back in 2016, the MMO community went to work dissecting everything, from its PvP system to its business model...

The game on everyone's mind this month definitely has to be BioWare's Anthem. The studio's first new IP in a long time is a...

Storm clouds are gathering above Activision Blizzard, a portent of bad sales and dire predictions: The publisher is expected to cut "hundreds" of jobs this week...

In the last couple of weeks, we've been posting what seems like an endless list of bad news from gaming companies insofar as their...

We're back with another quick roundup of MMO industry news! Remember the Fair Play Alliance? It was supposed to be a group of major and...