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Justin and Bree tackle a theme proposed by the listeners, as this show is all about MMORPG housing, including why housing matters, post-launch housing patches, placement tools, prefab vs. custom houses, housing as part of the gameplay loop, apartments vs. instanced vs. open-world housing, incentivizing housing use, taxes and monetization, and integrating housing into MMO ecosystems.

As you have probably noticed from the fact that I have been writing about City of Heroes nonstop since the Homecoming server got its...

For the past few years we've been peeking in with hopeful looks at Nexus Forever, the rogue server project for WildStar that we first...

For our first Massively Overthinking of the year, we're drawing a hard line between what we think will happen, what we mean to make...

This traditional roundup of the best Daily Grinds of the year is actually one of my favorites because it demonstrates just how long we've...

It was a pretty big deal back when I had first started working at original Massively when the trend started, and I can still...

Time shouldn't zip along as quickly as it often does, especially when it taps us on the shoulder to look back and see how...

There was a time when MMORPGs were all based on existing storied single-player RPG franchises, and that time was when Ultima Online launched and...

Initially I wanted to write a column about how the transition of Star Wars: The Old Republic to Broadsword and how we're seeing its...

So here's a nice surprise for a Thursday morning: If you missed the old Motiga MOBA-shooter Gigantic, you can play it again - briefly. MMO...

Not every dungeon has to be a drab and dour affair — a fact that sent the Battle Bards searching for the cheeriest tunes...

This past weekend, I picked up my first premium house in Lord of the Rings Online after much hemming and hawing. I didn't expect...

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

Playing Wayfinder marks the first time in my games writing career that my impression of a game has involved quite so much of my...

Maybe I'm the only one to have stopped to think about it, but a great deal of the MMOs that we enjoy are based...

The label "cozy" is in increasing danger of becoming a watered-down label thanks to how much it's being used in culture these days. Yet...

I think many of us are primed to roll our eyes at anyone who says "oh man, just keep playing, it gets better later...

In this age of increased anxiety and friction, there's a natural desire to retreat into safe spaces. And yet not all of us have...

Memory is a funny ol' thing. It can straight-up lie to you and convince you of something that probably wasn't even there. Or it...

Justin and Bree discuss New World, World of Warcraft, WildStar, EverQuest 3, and EverQuest 2, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, and WoW, plus a mailbag topic on MMO systems we want simplified vs. complexified, which is too a word!