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My good colleague, Billy Murphy, early last week wrote about five things we should stop complaining about. The fifth entry was random reward lootboxes and out of the entire list, I will never – as long as I draw breath – stop complaining about these. T…

Scott Hartsman of Trion Worlds is one of gaming’s most open and candid CEO’s. During PAX West 2016, he and I sat down to discuss Trion Worlds’ games, past, present, and future. When I found him, he was sitting at the front desk, handing out codes for f…

With Legion now out and millions of players getting back into WoW, it seems like the MMO slump is starting to end. Why you ask? Well, many MMOs remain alive and do very well for the companies that run them. The trick is, there is nothing new coming to …

Aside from the Star Wars Galaxies emulator, which I am waiting for the team to finish to fully check out, there’s been only one private server that’s gotten me to bother to install and play on and that is Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning.

We whine a lot. Not just as gamers, or MMO gamers, but as human beings in the western civilized world, we complain about anything we perceive as unfair or unjust or in any way lopsided. I don’t know why this is, I’m no psychologist. But I do know that there are at least five things we MMO gamers need to just get over already. At the risk of being clich�, we really do beat too many dead horses.

Video games have long been a force for imagination. It’s no surprise, they are after all those imaginings we had as children writ large and in polygons, pixels and pointers. Project Arena is what happens when you get talented developers, a company like…

With the release of Nvidia’s 1000 line of desktop graphics cards, it was only a matter of time until their Mobility line hit the scene. The time has come and laptop manufacturers are leveraging the power of Pascal to show us just what’s possible in the…

Recently, a group known as Good Gaming has been making waves in esports by providing a place for amateur gamers to compete in and earn money from tournaments in games such as Overwatch, Hearthstone, and more. We caught up with GG’s Vik Grover to talk a…

Gamescom 2016 is in the bag and our team has seen all there is to see and choose the best of the best from Europe’s biggest gaming convention.

MMOs have been around for a long time and have morphed and changed over the decades now as we enter 2017. We’re in a period which I would consider the second era of MMOs with Ultima Online for all intents and purposes kickstarting the genre back in 19…