Colin Henry
A fresh first impressions: Checking out Palia for the first time on Switch
Outside of MMORPGs, life sims are probably the most-played genre in my household. I originally bought Stardew Valley for my wife a few years...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Five Guild Wars 2 event farms to combat your labyrinth letdown
My favorite thing about Guild Wars 2's Shadow of the Mad King Halloween event is the Mad King's Labyrinth. There's nothing quite like it,...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2 Through the Veil’s Inner Nayos and convergences
Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure was a bit of a different expansion in that it wasn't one big chunk of content dropped...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Secrets of the Obscure
It has been a weird time to be a Guild Wars 2 fan, with a lot of ups and downs lately. End of Dragons...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Secrets of the Obscure has me concerned for Guild Wars 2’s future
If you haven't picked up on it by now, I really like Guild Wars 2. It is my favorite MMORPG of all time and...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s skyscale changes are great
So here's a funny story: I was literally in the middle of writing an article titled "The time to make the skyscale more accessible...
MMO Burnout: Lessons MMOs can learn from The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom
Like most MMO players, I am, first and foremost, a PC gamer. However, like many gamers born in the '80s and '90s, I also...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Wrapping up the End of Dragons era with What Lies Within
It's the end of an era: Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons era of content comes to a close with today's episode, titled What...
Flameseeker Chronicles: What we learned (and didn’t) from Guild Wars 2’s spring 2023 roadmap
The most nerve-wracking thing about being an MMORPG player is uncertainty. MMO players don't like change, and when a change is teased, many of...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s What Lies Beneath, the next End of Dragons story, has launched
Happy anniversary to Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons expansion! Can you believe it has been a whole year? In some ways I feel...
Guild Wars 2 is revamping Mesmer and Firebrand mantras – again – in next week’s balance patch
Over the weekend, Guild Wars 2 balance lead Cal Cohen and associate game designer Roy Marks swung by the ArenaNet Twitch channel to show...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Wrapping up Guild Wars 2’s S1 reboot with episode 5, The Battle for Lion’s Arch
It's finally here! The most memorable, most important part of Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 1 story. The moment we've all been waiting...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s restored S1E4 Tower of Nightmares
Here we are at the penultimate episode of Guild Wars 2's restored and retooled Season 1 content! The pieces are finally starting to fall...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Standout moments from 10 years of Guild Wars 2
Time sure flies when you're slaying Elder Dragons, doesn't it? Is it really possible that it has been a decade since our characters first...
Hands-on with Multiversus: How WB’s new brawler stacks up against Super Smash Bros.
Like most of the readers of this site, I spend the majority of my gaming time in MMORPGs, or I wouldn't be here. But...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s S1E3 Clockwork Chaos
Ask veteran MMO gamers who the star of Guild Wars 2's first living world season was, and you're not likely to hear names like...
Flameseeker Chronicles: What could Guild Wars 2’s fourth expansion be about?
Ever since ArenaNet's studio leadership came out early in the year and confirmed that planning has begun on a fourth expansion, players have no...
Guild Wars 2 trolls are blocking others’ access to new legendary weapon skins… by causing events to succeed
Guild Wars 2 players are failing to succeed at failing because other players are trolling them by forcing them to succeed. Hang on, let's...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Touring Guild Wars 2’s restored living world S1E2 Sky Pirates
Ready for another trip down Guild Wars 2's memory lane, or, perhaps, to experience more of the game's long-lost stories for the first time?...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s restored Living World S1E1 Flame and Frost
Where were you nine years ago? I don't know about you, but my life looked very different in 2013 when Guild Wars 2 first...