Seattle-based studio responsible for Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2.
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Guild Wars blows out 13 candles on its birthday cake – were you there for its first?
Travel back with us to April 2005, when an unknown and unproven studio known as ArenaNet decided to make a play at its own...
The Daily Grind: What is the greatest hoax or fake leak in all of MMORPG history?
Hah, you thought this one was going to be about Daybreak. But it's not. No, today's Daily Grind was actually inspired by something Guild Wars...
Guild Wars 2 tortures Dervish fans with an outfit but no class, denies excessive data collection in ‘spyware’ controversy
World polish and bug fixes are at the forefront of Guild Wars 2's latest patch, which went live yesterday.
Several nagging issues across the game...
One Shots: Tour guides
It turns out that MMORPG players really don't need much prompting to go out and take a bazillion screenshots of their favorite in-game zones,...
Russia’s Telegram crackdown blocks access to WoW, EVE, and Guild Wars 2
If you play Guild Wars 2, World of Tanks, EVE Online, or World of Warcraft in Russia, you may find that access to these...
The Daily Grind: What could MMO taverns do to get you to stick around?
I have vague memories of ArenaNet talking about Guild Wars 2 taverns prior to its launch and how these spaces would be more than...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Deep-diving Guild Wars 2’s A Bug in the System (Part 1)
Season 4 of Guild Wars 2Â Living World was off to a roaring start with Daybreak so I was expecting a solid follow-up in A...
Guild Wars 2 plans bonus harvesting weekend, backs player artists crowdfunding a GW2 tarot deck for charity
So here's something Guild Wars 2 doesn't do much: special weekend bonus events. This one's probably more about getting folks to buy harvesting tools...
The Daily Grind: What’s the biggest scandal the MMORPG genre has ever seen?
Over the weekend in the Guild Wars 2 spyware article comments, a commenter remarked that Blizzard's Warden spyware was "the biggest scandal in MMOs"...
The Game Archaeologist: Lineage
If we judged MMOs by their numbers alone -- and I'm not suggesting we do so -- then the original Lineage would be the...
Guild Wars 2 used client-side spyware to aid its latest purge of potential cheaters
ArenaNet's just gone on a purge of potential cheaters in Guild Wars 2.
"Yesterday we suspended 1,583 accounts for a period of 6 months," Gaile...
PAX East 2018: An interview with the big griffon statue
Everyone knows that the various people portraying characters at PAX East are just there to portray a character. That's not who they really are....
Perfect Ten: Why trend-chasing doesn’t work at all for online games
Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...
Guild Wars 2 has completely overhauled gathering tools with glyph upgrades and wardrobe implementation
A couple of weeks ago, a nasty patch bug borked up harvesting tools in Guild Wars 2. Hardest hit were the endless-use versions that...
PAX East 2018: Guild Wars 2 game director Mike Zadorojny on Path of Fire, monetization, and more
It's not every day that you walk into a building dominated by an enormous griffon, the enormous statue replicating the mount in Guild Wars...
The Daily Grind: Do you get grumpy over MMO events on repeat?
I'm a huge fan of Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box, even if I am not the best jumper in the world. My kid...
The MOP Up: Paladins’ newest hero will punch your head off (April 8, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Jukebox Heroes: Five great YouTube channels for MMO music
As a collector and reviewer of MMORPG soundtracks, I owe a great debt to fellow music lovers who take the time to somehow extract...
The Daily Grind: How do you deal with muscle memory when playing multiple MMORPGs?
I've been playing two games that focus a lot on jumping lately: Trove and Guild Wars 2, specifically Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 164: Shroud of the Heroes
Justin and Bree discuss April Fools' Day across the MMO world, RIFT, DDO, Trove, Guild Wars 2, WoW, Sea of Thieves, Shroud of the Avatar, SWTOR, and FFXIV, with mailbag questions on MMO tourist modes and character customization.
