A major global studio based in South Korea, known in the west for games like WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and Aion, among many others.
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The Game Archaeologist: Super-early versions of MMORPG websites
One of the absolute best things the internet ever generated has been the Internet Wayback Machine. Through this site, snapshots of millions of websites...
Guild Wars 2 subreddit goof helps re-confirm new ArenaNet game
A thread posted Friday on the Guild Wars 2 subreddit apparently went awry as players panicked under the mistaken belief that ArenaNet's Jennifer Scheurle was...
Leaderboard: Have you ever failed MMO events on purpose – like for roleplaying’s sake?
Earlier this week, MOP's Sam Kash came into the MOP writing room cracking up over a thread on the Guild Wars 2 subreddit and...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG bugs ever
This week's Massively Overthinking discussion topic is inspired by Crowfall's J Todd Coleman, who last fall tweeted about the time playable spiders almost became...
Vague Patch Notes: Guild Wars 2 might be the MMO that defined the last decade
It's been about a week or so since we did our Overthinking on the best MMO of the decade, and I ultimately rattled off...
Guild Wars 2 previews Shadows in the Ice’s best features in new trailer
Here we go, folks - with the Lunar New Year festival underway in Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet is now turning its promotional attention back...
Blade & Soul announces a costume set, PvPvE zone, and custom sneakers giveaway for its fourth anniversary
Blade & Soul's western version is going to be four years old soon -- on January 22nd, to be exact -- and it's got...
Crowfall’s UI is getting less survival-y and more MMO-y with February’s test patch
Call me weird, but user interfaces in games are among my favorite things to dig into, and Crowfall's has been of particular interest to...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020
This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...
Datamining offers tantalizing clue about Guild Wars 2 controller support
Ever wished you could play Guild Wars 2 from the comfort of your couch with the simplicity of a controller? That dream may one...
Guild Wars 2’s Lunar New Year festival is live with a new cape and player-designed guild emblems
The Lunar New Year is just a week and a half away, which means a bunch of MMOs are about to start in on...
Valiance Online, still gunning for launch this year, drops a brand-new flythrough video
Let's not sugarcoat this: Valiance Online has almost been crowded out of players' vision when it comes to the City of Heroes spiritual successors....
One Shots: Worse homes and gardens
Probably the only thing that is holding me back from embracing a career as a lifelong mega-villain is that I can't conform to the...
The Daily Grind: Capes or backpacks in MMOs?
2019 was a huge, huge year for MMORPGs. I'm mainly talking about how both Dungeons and Dragons Online and Guild Wars 2 got capes...
Massively Overthinking: The best MMOs of the decade
A few years back, we did a cheeky Massively Overthinking about our five favorite MMORPGs of all time. It was quite a potent list...
Cryptic’s Magic: Legends is an isometric RPG and not an MMORPG because of earth elemental butt
Yesterday, we got our first look at the gameplay in Cryptic's upcoming Magic: Legends MMO, and, well, it didn't go over that well. In...
Netmarble will begin merging Lineage 2 Revolution’s servers this month
Netmarble's Lineage 2 Revolution mobile MMO was one of the big mobile hits of 2017 and 2018, driving millions of players to yet another...
Perfect Ten: Upcoming MMOs to watch in 2020
There is a great feeling of flipping a calendar over to a fresh year, isn't there? All that promise and potential spread out in...
Rend studio Frostkeep has apparently suffered a round of layoffs
It looks as if Frostkeep Studios is suffering some downsizing this week. Evan "Scapes" Berman, a producer for the MMO studio and a figure...
Guild Wars 2 launches its PvP League Season 20 and announces dates for the Lunar New Year
Short and sweet Guild Wars 2 news, this one. ArenaNet has officially kicked off its 20th season of the PvP League, which runs between...
