Swords, bows, daggers, staves, rifles, plus-sized hammers (don’t fat shame them!) — these weapons and more are all over the place in our MMOs. That’s usually fine, at least until you get a craving for something a little more… exotic. Something unusual and interesting. Something to spice up the visuals and give you different combat […]

So in the last entry in this Warframe frame guide series, I expressed joy that we had reached a point where all of our frames were at least reasonably good. This time, sadly, we are in misery. I’m not going to bury the lede here: Even though I quite like two of these frames, none […]

I should have had this piece done sooner. I was granted access to Skate’s current season ahead of its release by Electronic Arts and Full Circle in a press build, but all that was available was the new indoor skate park and a look at the battle pass. Not really much to write about, if I’m honest. […]

What is it about WoW Classic that hits the spot for some players – including me? It’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer, mostly because I think that a lot of it comes down to nebulous feelings rather than hard, data-driven facts. There’s something about the feel of this legacy MMO that strongly resonates in […]

So I’m going to be real with y’all, I am very hype about Stars Reach hitting early access. I understand and acknowledge the people who have been playing the game and saying “this is not ready for prime time” and I believe them, but at the same time I am also excited to play it and see […]

I think we all have at least one non-MMO that we’ve sunk an unholy number of hours into, and for me, that game is definitely Rimworld. Rimworld is my jam, a colony simulator that’s technically a real-time strategy game but is actually a “story generator” that’s designed to tell a huge tale of struggle, triumph, and tragedy […]

I’m not going to bury the lede on this one: MMORPGs need to be balanced. Every game, in fact, needs to be balanced. Balance is a continually moving target that needs to forever be re-evaluated and it’s hard to do, but on a very conceptual level, balance is important. If you do not accept that […]

Back in the dewy slopes of 2021, the world felt very different. And some of how it felt different was contained in the fact that some games were everywhere, making big splashes for their updates. Many of those games are… no longer getting that kind of treatment, or at least it doesn’t feel like they […]

So despite the fact that I am a devout City of Heroes person on this site, I have something of a minority opinion in that I have never liked the original login music for the game. No, really. I think the replacement tune used for when the game went free-to-play sounds much better, and I will die on […]

In the Venn diagram comparing WoW Classic and Lord of the Rings Online, there’s a large overlapping section that simply says “chill gameplay.” And that’s probably why I appreciate both titles: because they feed that need I have to slow down, drink in the game world, and focus on a long leveling journey with no […]

If someone was keeping track of MMORPG gaming achievements that encompassed all of your online career, would you have earned that special award that said that you — yes you — had tried and played a 2-D MMO at some point in your life? There aren’t a lot of them out there, but it’s not […]

Time to kick up your feet and listen to a classic MMO tune! This week’s pick is We All Lift Together, a popular shanty from, oddly enough, Warframe and written by Keith Power. Give it a listen and see if you’re not whistling it for the rest of the day! And if you have any […]

I said it, and I’m actually going to deliver on it this time: I’m bringing you back to another round of Eldegarde. That’s Notorious Studios’ recent mini-MMO, which primarily plays as an extraction RPG. And yet it has so many features that MMO players love to see that it’s been self-dubbed a mini-MMO. The game […]

Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken was published in August of 1915, and it has endured an immense popularity since then. Many people can quote the last couplet of the poem (“I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference”), and for years the title alone conjures images of […]

This weekend will be Pokemon Go local Kalos Tour, and as we mentioned in our prep guide, it hasn’t been looking good. We’ve been expecting a big announcement to drop right before the event, and we were right, but it’s not a great one. The problematic-since-release feature, which has seen some improvement, is taking another […]

If you’ve been playing an MMORPG for long enough, you have hit that point before. Not the point wherein there is truly nothing to do in the game, but the point wherein you have accomplished all your goals, earned all your rewards, cleared everything you want. And so then you sit there, log into the game, […]

We’ve all been there. You’re dragging yourself through another so-so gaming year, playing the same old titles, all while telling yourself that it’s about to get a lot more interesting, because a game you’ve been eyeing should come out before too long. And almost as if you jinxed a cosmic trickster, the next day you […]

The last few years have been quiet on the legal issues in games, but in true 2025 fashion, this year was a legal drama-llama. Granted, maybe a little bit more on the “Ally McBeal” side of legal drama than the “Matlock.” But hey, I’m here for it. From corporate-facepalm shenanigans to Roblox spending another year […]

There are some very fun abilities to use in Warframe, but one of my favorite is Mesa’s fourth ability, Peacemaker. In a game full to the brim with guns, a Warframe has an ability that is just “draw more guns.” And it’s actually very useful, arguably up there with any other games the game has to […]

As I type this, we’re at the top of January and waiting for two events that should be happening in the WoW Classic space this month. The first is the Burning Crusade Anniversary prepatch on January 13th, which will reshape the systems of those servers and open up some more character options. But the second […]