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MMOs get incredibly excited about Tesla’s Spaceman
No, you didn't dream it up. Wednesday, the world was abuzz over Elon Musk's Tesla company sending a rocket into orbit that was toting...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPGs should stay away from legacy servers?
Legacy, vanilla, classic, progression - call them what you like, but alternative server rulesets, particularly of the nostalgia-driven kind, are all the rage in...
NCsoft Q4 2017: Guild Wars resurges as Blade & Soul and Lineage M drive profits
NCsoft has money to cheer about this past financial quarter, as it posted another year of solid growth. Revenue and operating profit were up...
The Stream Team: Living it up in Guild Wars 2’s Lunar New Year
Firecrackers, racing, and a dragon ball? It sounds like a perfect time to Massively OP's MJ, so she's heading into Guild Wars 2 to...
Flameseeker Chronicles: My Guild Wars 2 goals for 2018
It's the time of year for spring-cleaning and goal-setting, where we look ahead to a fresh start filled with plenty of days left for...
Guild Wars 2’s lunar new year patch is here with some big class balance changes too
Happy Lunar New Year! Guild Wars 2 has trotted out the requisite new year's event in celebration of the year of the dog, though...
Guild Wars 2: Mesmer changes, the friendship contest, and the real identity of the Herald of Balthazar
If you missed Guild Wars 2's Twitch stream this afternoon, and you probably did because it's Friday and ain't nobody got time to watch...
Guild Wars 2 proposes massive overhaul of WvW with world restructuring and creation
World vs. world content has long been a sore spot for Guild Wars 2, at least as far as world PvPers are concerned, which...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 155: Pirates, progression, and patches
Justin and Bree discuss Age of Conan, FFXIV, SWTOR, Closers, EVE Online, Sea of Thieves, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, with mailbag questions on non-combat MMO options and playing MMOs with a newborn.
Re-examining Asheron’s Call’s Shard of the Herald event on its first deathiversary
Although the Asheron's Call series has now been dead for exactly one year today, it's far from forgotten by fans. It was admittedly a cult classic, and...
Guild Wars 2 makes SuperData’s top 10 list of ‘premium PC games by revenue for 2017’
If you want SuperData's complete 2017 Digital Games & Interactive Media market brief, you're... not going to have to pay for it. It's free,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG for a trio?
I've been considering this question ever since my husband and I upgraded our six-year-old's Guild Wars 2 account with Path of Fire and we...
The Game Archaeologist: Fallen Age
Imagine that one day you wake up, stumble to your computer, and check in on the morning news. Among the various tidbits is a...
Perfect Ten: Major MMO expansions and updates to expect in 2018
Now that we're almost 1/12th of the way through 2018, it's probably about time to stop anticipating the year and start experiencing it. We...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 154: A Prime experiment
Justin and Bree discuss Trion's big RIFT and Devilian news, Camelot Unchained's $7.5M investment, Darkfall New Dawn's launch, and layoffs for Albion and Elyria, with a mailbag question on what went wrong with WildStar.
Trademarks, copyrights, and patents: What they mean for you and for video games
Has the pace of news moved so quickly that we've already forgotten about Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene's statement that video games lack any IP copyright...
ArenaNet donates $3500 to Guild Wars fan whose game copy survived a deadly housefire
Howasabout another feel-good story? Let's do it! This one comes from Kotaku, which covered a large donation Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet recently made...
The Daily Grind: Is ‘naming-and-shaming’ MMO cheaters a good idea?
Last week on Reddit, an EVE Online player begged CCP to organize a wall of shame for botters - essentially an online list of...
One Shots: Poppin’ some bubbly
We are going to kick off this week's exhibition of player screenshots with a few email submissions (yes, some of you still email them...
Massively Overthinking: Tackling our hoarding problem in MMORPGs
By coincidence, two articles in my feeds this past week both centered on video game hoarding - not hoarding the actual games but hoarding...
