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Guild Wars 2 recaps its latest test effort for restructuring WvW combat
Here's one of the amazing new pieces of information that Guild Wars 2's designers divined during the most recent WvW restructuring tests: Long queues...
The Stream Team: Achievement hunting for Guild Wars 2 XP
Massively OP's MJ is doWN to the last mastery before she can finally ride her own skyscale throughout Guild Wars 2. But the XP...
Jeff Strain’s Crop Circle Games studio shuts down abruptly following employee furloughs
Over the past couple of years we've been keeping a general eye on the opening of Crop Circle Games, a new indie studio formed...
One Shots: One corgi to rule them all
Deep in the fires of Mt. Doom, a terrible and mighty creation is being forged. One that if, left unchecked and unpetted, could spell...
Guild Wars 2 releases more profession balancing tweaks as players offer to train noobs to raid
Guild Wars 2's patch this week is such a hodgepodge of tweaks and bufferonis that we hardly know where to begin. It touches on...
The Stream Team: A grinderiffic Guild Wars 2 XP extravaganza
As much as Massively OP's MJ wants a break from Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the Obscure now that she concluded the latest chapter...
ArenaNet is cracking down on bot abuse in Classic Guild Wars PvP
If you thought modern MMOs were plagued by bots, wait until you see what's been happening over in Guild Wars - the original Guild...
The Steam Spring Sale brings savings for The Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy XIV, and more
Spring is about to spring and be sprung in Spring with... look, it's time for the Steam Spring Sale, one of the many times...
The Stream Team: Confronting Queen Labris in Guild Wars 2
From the random introduction of an evil queen to the whiplash change of stance from the general, last week's adventure in Guild Wars 2's...
Guild Wars 2 adds the charmingly baggy cargo pants to the Black Lion Trading Company
Clothes make the man, as the old saying goes, and Guild Wars 2 is hoping that you want to make yourself look really cool...
Massively Overthinking: Are we ‘optimizing the fun out’ of MMOs?
MMO dev Damion Schubert recently retweeted a thread penned by a user named Zarathustra that presents our Massively Overthinking discussion for the week. Now,...
The Stream Team: Searching for Nephus in Guild Wars 2
The mists have cleared over the inner zone of Guild Wars 2's Nayos, and Massively OP's MJ gets to explore a new area! Well,...
The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on ‘backfilling’ in instanced MMO content?
My husband and son have been playing a lot of Destiny 2 again, and a few weekends back I overheard them complaining about backfilling....
One Shots: Slice me a chunk of that moon cheese, would ya
You have to love the absolute hubris of Jedi in Star Wars because there's no object that they don't think they can levitate, smash,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO have you kept installed the longest whether you play it or not?
A few weeks back, I asked y'all about the MMOs that have a permanent place on your device, the ones you'll never uninstall. I...
Massively Overthinking: Always-online vs. offline modes in multiplayer games
The Nightingale team's admission that players are clamoring for an offline version of the game - and that Inflexion is now planning to do...
The Daily Grind: Is gliding a good compromise to flying in MMOs?
By now, we all know the pros and cons of inserting flying into MMORPGs. Such systems can offer unparalleled freedom and be a great...
The Stream Team: Cat chairs and Guild Wars 2’s Realm of Dreams
There's brand-new content in Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the Obscure today! What is it about? You'll have to read Flameseeker Chronicles if you...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 459: A Gigantic return
Justin and Bree discuss Nightingale's launch, Gigantic's return, Guild Wars 2's Realm of Dreams, and Last Epoch's launch, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, City of Heroes, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on Wagadu Chronicles and TTRPG-MMO crossovers.
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s The Realm of Dreams, launching today
Can you believe it has been more than half a year since we took our first steps into the mysterious, long-teased Wizard's Tower in...
