Guild Wars 2 rolled out the third episode of the third season of living story content this week. Dubbed A Crack in the Ice, the episode takes players to yet another new zone, Bitterfrost Frontier, to deal with the Kodan. Meanwhile, ArenaNet also put out a new fractal and sat for an AMA, during which the studio revealed it isn’t planning on fixing old dungeons but is working on fixing economic exploits and insider trading.
Read on for the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions.
MOP’S HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDES
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMO internet spaceships fanatic
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMO peripherals junkie
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMORPG bookworm
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the Blizzard fanatic
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the Guild Wars 2 fanatic
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2016 - As you're gobble, gobbling up food today, rooting for your favorite football team, and enduring the uncomfortable political conversations at the dinner table, you might be tempted to take some…
The best Thanksgiving and Black Friday MMORPG deals - Getcher credit cards ready, folks. It's time. (New additions are at the bottom!) The Secret World is part of the Humble Bundle this week; you can pick it up for…
Choose My Adventure: Getting ready for The Elder Scrolls Online - The votes have been tallied and the verdict is in; the next month of the column will be all about The Elder Scrolls Online. Technically, yes, the votes were tallied…
Hyperspace Beacon: Analyzing SWTOR’s Uprising group content - [AL:TOR]Star Wars: The Old Republic dropped a treat this week by allowing fansites to tour Knights of the Eternal Throne. Although we can now see the first chapter of KOTET on YouTube,…
Black Desert’s Musa and Maehwa awaken, base game on sale for 50% off - If the patch goes to plan, the Musa and Maehwa awaken with new polearms in today's Black Desert update. "The Musa can now switch to the Crescent Blade, which is reminiscent…
Elite Dangerous players accuse Frontier of ignoring combat exploit - If you thought that your politically divided family dinner table will be the most awkward situation this Thanksgiving week, then you need to haul yourself over to Elite Dangerous' neck…
Worlds Adrift announces Q1 2017 early access launch - While it was originally slated to come out this year, the sky sailing World Adrift announced on Friday that it is delaying its early access release to the beginning of…
City of Titans targets a fall 2018 launch - City of Titans fans, we have some really good news for you today! The dev team posted an image on Facebook to announce the game's launch window. The date? Fall…
Where is Jeremy Soule’s Kickstarter symphony? - Back in 2013, Composer Jeremy Soule (Landmark, Guild Wars 2) launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $10,000 to fund his personal project of creating a classical music album called The…
Crowfall is running its biggest test to date this weekend - The Crowfall team is not taking Thanksgiving off but is instead running its biggest to date. Doesn't that make you feel like a slacker for slowly digesting a few thousand…
Project Genom assures fans it will be back on Steam soon - If you've been following the news swirling around Project Genom, you know that the game got removed from Steam recently over a storm of copyright infringement and blackmail allegations. Crazy…
RIFT steps up its DDoS countermeasures - [AL:Rift]While RIFT players have been sallying forth in Starfall Prophecy to combat the forces of Ahnket, Trion Worlds has faced a much tougher fight of its own in the form of…
Perfect Ten: Moments to be thankful for in MMOs - It's the holiday once again, and somehow I've wound up on Thanksgiving Day here in the US. You may not be reading this on the day, instead enjoying a feast…
Crowfall introduces the female Templar class - There are eight classes currently playable in Crowfall's pre-alpha: the Champion, Ranger, Druid, Confessor, Knight, Myrmidon, Duelist, and Legionnaire. So how would you like to hear about one that no…
Overwatch strives to rebalance Symmetra - Overwatch players who avoid Symmetra like the plague might find themselves gravitating to her with an upcoming patch. Lead Designer Jeff Kaplan sat down with the community to announce a…
What is Blizzard’s secret first-person game project? - There is always a fierce curiosity among the gaming community to know what Blizzard is cooking up in its secret labs. Considering that the studio is close-lipped about any games…
EVE Online hits 50k concurrent users with its free-to-play shift - [AL:EVE]Players who want to jump in on EVE Online without paying for it now have the option to do just that; the game's most recent patch allows for a limited…
Conan Exiles announces January 31 early access launch with new trailer - Back in June, Funcom announced a big delay of Conan Exiles' early access launch plan, from September 13th to a vague January 2017. Today, Funcom narrowed that date down even…
Blade and Soul announces the Gunslinger and Korean F2P - It seems so very long ago, but the beginning of 2016 was dominated with excitement and expectations for Blade and Soul. For a good while there, it seemed like all…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
Massively OP Podcast Episode 92: A talk with RIFT: Starfall Prophecy’s devs
The Stream Team: Racing toward Riders of Icarus’ first dungeon
The Stream Team: Surviving ARK’s turkeyocalypse
The Stream Team: Battling turkey leftovers in Black Desert
The Stream Team: Surviving Black Friday in The Black Death
The Stream Team: A holiday serving of Master X Master alpha
The Stream Team: Taste-testing Trove’s Turkeytopia
The Stream Team: Thankful for long-range missiles in MechWarrior Online
The Stream Team: Getting chummy with SWTOR’s SCORPIO companion
The Stream Team: Frolicking in Fafnir’s Winter Wonderland in SMITE
The Stream Team: Win a Wizard101 Mirage Raider’s bundle
The Stream Team: Storming Marvel Heroes’ Cosmic trial
AND FROM OUR FRIENDS AT BLIZZARD WATCH
WoW world quest bonus event boasts huge rep gains
Hearthstone: Every card from the Mean Streets of Gadgetzan
StarCraft’s final Nova Covert Ops mission is out now
Every week, get caught up on the MMO genre’s latest news and Massively OP’s best content in our MMO Week in Review! Want more roundups of content? Try Friday’s Betawatch for MMO testing highlights, Saturday’s Make My MMO for MMO crowdfunding updates, and Sunday’s The MOP Up, which mops up all the little bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.
