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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...

Let me just state this outright: What in the absolute heck is supposed to be going on with Throne & Liberty at this point?...

One of the things I've taken on multiple times in this column is the concept of gender-locked classes, which are bad, and if you...

You meant a lot to me when we knew one another. I wonder if you ever really understood that, or if I even communicated...

If you ever need to understand why MMORPGs today look so different from how they looked back in 1997, there are a lot of...

Here is a very reasonable question: How many subscribers does Star Wars: The Old Republic have? Not how many players, but how many subscribers....

A week ago, we all sounded off on the best way to save a small-to-mid-size MMO that was struggling, as prompted by a discussion...

A few weeks back, I talked about the various tiers of MMORPGs, and that included a discussion of what we call the Big Five...

So Tarisland has heard that people don't like gender-locked classes. This is the correct feedback because gender-locked classes blow, and every game that has...

Here we are again with another one of my "let's put down some important industry notes" columns, and this time we're talking about whaling....

When I first started playing Final Fantasy XI some two decades ago, I went in with no illusions about one thing that seemed clear...

I knew that Tales of Arise wasn't really working for me like its immediate predecessor when I started kind of avoiding combat. Now, to a...

The past few weeks we've been following this freakin' thing because... well, obvious reasons. But that has me thinking about crowdfunding in general, because...

So let's take a tour back to the dewy slopes of 2010, when I bought the collector's edition of Final Fantasy XIV. That would...

Back before Final Fantasy XIV's reboot launched, Naoki Yoshida talked about how the developers had plans to make certain primals be world bosses. Players...

Let's just start with the premise out of the gate. World of Warcraft launched to sales of 240,000 units on its first day. The...

So now that Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is out, there is a very funny meme that is going around, but it...

I want you to put a game in your head that you think is pay-to-win. No, you do not have to say it out...

I turned 40 this year. It's not something that I announced with any particular fanfare, due in no small part to the fact that...

So this weekend had at least one incident that was, I'm not remotely sorry to say, exceedingly funny. If you've been paying any attention...