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Seattle-based studio responsible for Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2.

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best graphical appeal as of 2017?

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We don't give out a formal end-of-the-year award for MMO graphics at Massively OP. It'd be almost impossible to come to a consensus. As...
This guy, though... he didn't get it.

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG articles of 2017

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For this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked the writers to do something most of them hate: brag! We've tried to isolate our favorite personal...
Cabal II

Battle Bards Episode 111: Cabal Online 1 and 2

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The Battle Bards are always up for a musical bargain, and on today’s episode, they’ll deliver two MMORPGs for the price of one (sitting)!...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s Hall of Chains raid wing first impressions

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I promised you at the end of last week's rundown of Guild Wars 2's fourth Living World season's launch episode that I'd return this week...

Guild Wars 2’s Wintersday celebrations are live along with the condition and balance patch

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Ahhhhh! What's that thing up in the sky over Divinity's Reach, the second-best video game city ever? Oh, don't worry, it's just Toymaster Tixx's...

The Daily Grind: What was the best new zone added to an MMO in 2017?

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Last year, MOP reader Agemyth suggested we debate the best new MMORPG zone added in 2016, so it seemed only fitting to bring the topic...
GLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORIA

The Humble Bundle for the holidays is full of MMO goodness, including Guild Wars 2, Neverwinter, and Blade & Soul

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So here's how the latest Humble Bundle is working. Drop $35 on the bundle and all of your money goes to charity, and you...

The Daily Grind: Are you willing to buy good-looking MMO cosmetics?

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There are few things that bug me more in MMOs than when my character looks like he or she got dressed by sprinting through...

Guild Wars 2 is planning a Wintersday balance patch next week

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Don't worry your little elfin ears, Guild Wars 2 players: Wintersday is on the way. And this year, ArenaNet is tossing in a balance...

MU Online activates exclusive server while MU Legend hauls out the PvP

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Here's a two-for-one update on what's going on with the MU universe of games. First up is MU Online, which just activated a new...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Deep-diving Guild Wars 2’s living world S4 Daybreak

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I'm back with an earlier-than-anticipated special edition of Flameseeker Chronicles to share my impressions of the opening episode of Guild Wars 2's fourth Living World...
Oh look.

Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2017

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As Counting Crows told us, it's been a long December, although the fact that it has also only just started being December speaks to...
Just fight the thing.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 147: Daybreak but not that one

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Justin and Bree discuss Secret World Legends, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Star Citizen, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, and the cost of making games, with a lengthy mailbag-inspired discussion on minimaps.

Wintersday returns to Guild Wars 2 next week

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Break out your snowflakes, your sparkling daggers, and your dancing snowmen, as Wintersday returns to Guild Wars 2 next week - Tuesday, December 12th,...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO needs a better music system – or any music system?

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If you ask any Star Wars Galaxies veteran about the game's most amazing features, I guarantee that the music and dance system will make...

Guild Wars 2 announces weapon contest winners, adds new in-game book interface

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Remember that design-a-weapon contest that Guild Wars 2 was running last month? Well, it is all over now, and ArenaNet tallied up all of...

The MOP Up: Pocket PUBG (December 3, 2017)

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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...

Another year passes and Jeremy Soule’s Kickstarter album is still unreleased

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How about this for a new November tradition at Massively OP: Let's get together at this time every year to see if video game...

Guild Wars 2 defends new mount price, Zadorojny stays on as Game Director, S4 plans brisk cadence

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There's a bit of a kerfuffle over Guild Wars 2's new mount, which is a gorgeous peacock reskin of the raptor. ArenaNet has put...
I'm here to talk with you about patch cadence.

Guild Wars 2’s fourth living story season has officially landed

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Guild Wars 2's first living story episode since the apparently tepid launch of Path of Fire has officially launched this afternoon. Dubbed Daybreak, a...

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