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In This Issue

Fellowship of the Ding

To guild or not to guild, that’s no longer the question: It’s become a necessary—and melodramatic—part of gaming.

Mods of War

If you get weak in the greaves over stats and interfaces, some of these mods are for you.

Crawling Out of the MUDs

From their start on mainframe computers in the late 1970s to the games currently running on your PC or console, MMOs have evolved in ways few people could have predicted.

Net Hack

Hacking is all a matter of perspective. From gentle bending to true exploits.

Breaking the Mold

I think that, especially in the past couple of years, the games industry has seen the real staying power of MMOs.

Shaping the World

Why do people create MMOs when they could be doing anything else?

MASSIVE Blog

State of Issue 2
Issue number 2 of MASSIVE is due at the end of next week, which means things are a wee-bit busy around here. Making things a wee-bit busier is the fact that issue number 193 (January) of Computer Games Magazine is due this Friday. Doing two magazines at the same time, not so fun. We’re still trying [...]
Outland Adventures
So, Outland. When Burning Crusade launches, it’s going to be a very crowded place. In beta, I had a quest to kill 15 whatevers in a mine, and there were only a dozen or so of these guys in said mine. But there were dozens of players running around trying to attack them when they [...]
Sticks and Clicks
I have four e-mail addresses. A year or so ago, I used all of them to create four separate accounts in the super-sophisticated, high-tech MMO, Kingdom of Loathing. For anyone who’s seen this creature, you realize that description is completely tongue-in-cheek, as its entire graphical interface consists of text boxes, stick figures, and primitive line [...]
Random Entry
So, how about that Burning Crusade? I have Doofus, a Blood Elf Rogue, and Gadzooks, a Draenai Warrior. Yeah, I didn’t create a Shaman or a Paladin, but I’m just waiting for my level 60 to transfer to the beta server. (Okay, I actually meant to create a Paladin but somehow accidentally hit the "Warrior" [...]