Asheron’s Call is one of the grand old games in the MMO universe, having been entertaining folks for upwards of ten years and ...

Asheron’s Call is one of the grand old games in the MMO universe, having been entertaining folks for upwards of ten years and ...

Asheron’s Call is one of the grand old games in the MMO universe, having been entertaining folks for upwards of ten years and ...

Of the three standard MMO classes, Healing is the only one that gives me little cause for comment. This is for several reasons. ...

I’ve spent the last few articles looking at social and economical aspects of gaming, but with this installment we’ll be moving back into ...

I have a confession to make: I’m addicted to trade skills. They remain one of the most tedious aspects of MMOs, but I ...

When Tolkien, the father of modern fantasy, wrote “The road goes ever ever on,” MMOs took him at his word. A large part ...

Last time we began our look at how stories are dying in games. Stories occur on two levels in MMOs, the global and ...

I have noted in the MMO industry (as well as films and, to a lesser extent in fantasy literature) a decline in the ...

The Other Awards There are times when you feel the need to mention a game, but there isn’t really any other place in ...

Asheron’s Call 100th Update Interview When Asheron’s Call launched in November of 1999, the development team at Turbine had an ambitious plan in ...

Clausewitz “On Gaming”Effects of Victory, pt 2 Previously, we began our investigation of the impact of victory (and defeat) in gaming. When a ...