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Mike Ybarra says World of Warcraft and its IP will get the most news at BlizzCon
Do you spend far too much time analyzing floor plans for this year's BlizzCon and need to know which of Blizzard's franchises is getting...
Overwatch 2 unveils its next control map coming in Season 7
If you missed watching the Overwatch League grand final, you missed out on some news from the shooter itself, as the devs used the...
Hunters lead the pack for deaths on World of Warcraft Classic’s hardcore realms
All right, how many of you found out the hard way that Feign Death turns into actual death if you don't interrupt it before...
Casually Classic: Six reasons hardcore servers make WoW Classic worthwhile
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...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 438: EverQuest what’s next?
Justin and Bree discuss the potential for EverQuest 3, the LOTRO remaster's cancelation, EVE Fanfest's EVE Online Havoc and EVE Vanguard reveals, WoW Classic's about-face on LFD, Pantheon's new art style, and Marvel Heroes' code leak, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and Glitch Odd Giants.
Global Chat: Coming around on WoW Classic’s hardcore mode
With World of Warcraft Hardcore Classic out for a month now, it's continuing to show no quarter while it captures the interest of prior...
Vague Patch Notes: So what actually kills MMO communities?
Since we're busy getting a front-row seat to World of Warcraft adding the dungeon finder again, only this time it's WoW Classic, we are...
WoW Factor: So Blizzard backtracked on WoW Classic’s dungeon finder
So in April last year, I wrote a whole article about how World of Warcraft's development team was taking a gigantic misstep when it...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO things you can just stop waiting for
Sooner or later we all have to face facts and accept that something we wanted at one point is never actually going to happen....
WoW Classic pits players against the Lich King – with the dungeon finder – on October 10
Finally, at long last, players will get a chance to kill the Lich King in World of Warcraft! That is, if you somehow missed...
Global Chat: How do you make a compelling new player experience in MMOs?
In a slightly older essay, Kalyriene looked at the importance of the new player experience in MMORPGs -- and why both World of Warcraft...
Global Chat: What makes an ‘MMO’ an MMO?
Pulling back to look at the very big picture of it all, Tipa at Chasing Dings asks a pretty relevant question in this ever-shifting...
Perfect Ten: 10 of the worst launches in MMO history
Launch time is a difficult time for every MMO, and honestly, I have nothing but sympathy for the teams launching a new game at...
WoW Classic shares ‘gruesome data’ from hardcore’s first week
Now that WoW Classic admits that it'll never be able to put a number other than "0" over the sign "Days Since a Player...
WoW Factor: What would World of Warcraft ‘Classic Plus’ even look like?
So before I start this column, I want to make something very clear: I do not for one moment, in my heart of hearts,...
World of Warcraft drops a launch cinematic video for next week’s Fury Incarnate patch
Have you gotten enough of cinematics in which Bad Guy does Mean Thing before Bad But More Reasonable Woman stops him, and then has...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 435: Guild Wars 2’s secrets revealed
Justin and Bree discuss Gamescom, Nightingale, Crimson Desert, WoW Classic's hardcore servers, ArcheAge's devastating merge, and TennoCon's Warframe and Soulframe news, with adventures in LOTRO, Baldur's Gate 3, and Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure, plus a mailbag topic on WoW's latest teases.
Casually Classic: Hardcore realms are merely a Band-Aid for WoW Classic
Let's pause for a hot minute to absorb the fact that WoW Classic just hit its fourth anniversary. For the reheated leftovers of an...
WoW Classic’s hardcore realms claim over 90K character lives in the first day
With an overhaul to its PvP honor system and the launch of the official hardcore realms, WoW Classic surged into the spotlight this past...
LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO’s higher difficulties are a breath of fresh air
A while back, the Treebeard server in Lord of the Rings Online experimented with the first iteration of the new landscape difficulty system. I...
