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Massively OP Podcast Episode 153: It’s a whole New World

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, WoW, DDO, New World, RIFT, Elite, and ArcheAge, with a mailbag question on easing into full-scale MMO sandboxes.

The Stream Team: Saving the city from undead in Guild Wars 2

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There's a new event of sorts happening in Guild Wars 2, and it involves saving the city from undead. The trick is, you don't...

One Shots: Poster perfect

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One of the things that impresses me about the submissions to One Shots here is that so many of these pictures really could be...

LOTRO Legendarium: My LOTRO wish list for 2018

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Ever since I've been writing this Lord of the Rings Online column -- which spans back to 2010, if you can believe it --...
I suppose this is a problem I'm happy to complain about.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 152: Allied races and superhero sprints

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, ARK, Portal Knights, World of Warcraft, Champions Online, Fractured, Ship of Heroes, Black Desert, Elder Scrolls Online, and Life is Feudal, with mailbag questions on teaching MMO teamwork to kids and lockboxes vs. advertising.

Guild Wars 2 overhauls its lockbox mechanics and adds gardening plots

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We don't often cover cash shop updates for MMOs, and lockboxes are not our favorite thing, but Guild Wars 2's cash shop and lockbox...

Flameseeker Chronicles: 2018 Guild Wars 2 predictions

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I adore looking back on last year's predictions about what's to come in Guild Wars 2 in the next twelve months: Even when my predictions...
IT BURNS!

Guild Wars 2 is hiring a writer and narrative designer

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We regret to inform you that while ArenaNet is definitely hiring a Writer / Narrative Designer for Guild Wars 2, it is also a...

One Shots: To new beginnings!

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It's a new year and a new you! Well, probably the old you a few days past the expiration date, but that doesn't mean...

Global Chat: Love the farm, hate the farm

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How do you feel about grinding in MMOs? What about farming? These questions can elicit a wide variety of answers, from shrieks of dismay...
Guns and ships.

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO hopes and wishes for 2018

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One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It’s way too easy...
Throw wide the gates to let us pass once more.

Food and video games, two great tastes together at last!

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If you thought that the World of Warcraft official cookbook was a stupid idea, then you may not be the target audience for the...
Some day, I will be good about screenshots. That day is not today.

Choose My Adventure Year in Review: DC Universe Online, Shroud of the Avatar, Guild Wars 2, and Secret World Legends

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As our review of the past year of Choose My Adventure rolls onward (a bit longer than originally planned), we enter what I think...
Never over.

Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2017

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Last year was positively stuffed with updates, expansions, and cool stuff. A lot of years I struggle to remember which major updates happened in...

The Daily Grind: Would you be interested in a retro-styled MMORPG?

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As it's been about a year now, I know that pretty much nobody remembers John Smedley's ill-fated Hero's Song. For a while there, we...

The best Massively OP MMO reader polls of 2017

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Polls are a quantitative sort of magic that we don't often get from our other articles - at least when they aren't being brigaded...

MMO Year in Review: WoW Classic and the doom of Marvel Heroes (November 2017)

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We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...

The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2017

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Last week, we posted a rundown of the most popular MMORPG articles of 2017, calculated strictly by the number of pageviews they got. Today, we're going...

Battle Bards Episode 112: MMO minigame music

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It’s time to take a diversion to play — and listen — to the minigames tucked inside of our MMOs! The Battle Bards haul...

One Shots: Riding the unicorn charge into 2018

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That's it, folks. It's time to put the wraps on the bumpy, odd year that was 2017 and get ready to flip our calendars...

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