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I find myself thinking a lot about the MMORPG industry lately and the ways in which the gaming industry as a whole has changed...

Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...

As truly sad as it is to have a beloved MMORPG shut down on you, there's some measure of consolation that you actually got...

Syl and Syp return to the vast library of NCsoft’s MMO soundtracks, with games like Aion, Lineage, and Blade & Soul to keep our...

The notion of an in-game cataclysm is hardly the sole domain of Activision-Blizzard; on the contrary, large-scale apocalypses pop up all the time in...

In 1967, Disneyland opened one of its most iconic attractions: a dark boat ride called Pirates of the Caribbean. A large fandom surrounding the...

Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Embers Adrift, Mad World, Pax Dei, and Blue Protocol, with adventures in LOTRO, AdventureQuest 3D, and No Man's Sky, plus a mailbag topic on Tabula Rasa.

I'll be one of the first to admit that in spite of my desire to get into a shooter MMO/multiplayer game this month, I'm...

I have always felt that it's such an enormous waste of everything when a live MMORPG is sunsetted and access to it is gone...

And that's a wrap on this year in history! While everyone says farewell to 2022, here at TGA we're always looking way back at...

Wrath what? Blizzard doesn't have time to think about the immediate past when it has another launch coming right around the corner. Next week,...

Richard Garriott has been to space. I'm going to repeat that a lot for emphasis, just because I feel like it's important. Richard Garriott...

Richard Garriott is working on a new MMORPG, and yes, it's filled with NFTs. Garriott, who is probably best known to mainstream gamers as the...

While MMOs may ask us to experience them for the long haul, first impressions still count. And if those impressions aren't favorable right out...

In the MMO genre, we've been blessed with many great rogue server projects -- but there's always room for more, right? MMO Fallout's Connor...

It has been another thrilling year of exploring the relatively unknown or forgotten lands of MMORPG history here in The Game Archaeologist. From projects...

This past Saturday we asked our readers what MMOs they felt should have a rogue server of their own. A great number of people...

From Jaina to Wonder Woman, Vette to Galadriel, MMORPGs sport an inspiring roster of strong and fascinating women. Sometimes they headline the game, as...

On this week's podcast, I mentioned that I'd just finished off Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, something that superficially seems unrelated...

Free Realms. Warhammer Online. WildStar. Asheron's Call. We've lived through so these and so many other MMO shutdowns over the years, leaving behind screenshots,...