Some people are probably going to associate Ride the Lightning with a Metallica album, but MapleStory fans are likely going to associate it with this week’s content update, which bears the same name. Or maybe some of…
It’s been two years since Final Fantasy XIV decided to rerun its collaboration event with Dragon Quest X, which might as well be a century considering the pace of the world at large nowadays, so if you happen…
Since I’m the guy who made “I like Elves” about 40% of my personality, naturally my interest was piqued when I heard Nexon‘s new MMOARPG Embers of the Uncrowned was all about fighting evil Elves.…
The war against artificial intelligence didn’t end up being humans fighting terminators but rather studios and communities pushing back against companies sprinting to use gen AI in everything they make. One such company is Epic…
Anyone who has a sibling knows how vicious sibling rivalries can get, but we’re going to be honest with you: Sirius and Orion in Warframe have it worse. For one thing, they’re literally trying to kill…
Some genres are such easy layups for new MMOs that you would think there would be a half-dozen of them at a bare minimum. But there aren’t actually many, and I think there are interesting…
I’m not saying anything controversial here when I say that the ArcheAge franchise has devolved into a mess these last few years. Here in the west, the game was kicked around between publishers, mangled with…
I read a lot of games industry press releases on a daily basis, and most of them are terrible. Some of them are even written by actual humans still, and those I’ve started to appreciate…
At the moment, a lot of MMOs make us feel as if we’re in a perpetual now, when everything we’re playing now is the same stuff that’s been around for seemingly forever. This has ups…
Why raid a regular orc town when you can raid a shadowed orc town in Return to Moria? Think of the thrill of fighting those rank, unwashed brutes whose mere presence corrupts and kills! (OK,…