“Cutscenes are obsolete.” This would be my coworker Jordan Deam speaking on the ride home from a concert. When asked why, he elaborated: ...

As a journalist, I cover games, not movies, so I couldn’t help but wonder what I was getting into as I popped Second ...

The past few articles we’ve looked at how much skill is involved in MMO game play compared with simply building the best statistical ...

I began this “button smashing” series by stating that, while statistics are the basic foundation for MMO combat, over reliance on them has ...

In the previous installment I used the rather obscure occasion of water combat to address the impact of location on battles. Fighting knee ...

Over the past couple months we’ve looked at the three core functions of the MMO: DPS, Tank, and Healer. There are, of course, ...

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

This week I’m starting a three part (or perhaps more) series on the archetypal classes of the MMO: DPS, Tank, and Healer. The ...

You’ve no doubt heard by now about the Massachusetts high school students who are in a tizzy over all the dead dogs, killed ...

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 ...

Rob knew they were coming. It was the spring of 2006 and he was immersed in the MMORPG Shadowbane. He looked at the ...

I grew up on a staple of Avalon Hill and PC gaming and it wasn’t until college that I really encountered the RPG. ...