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One Shots: Protect me, mighty cactus!
Health care in fantasy worlds is a tad peculiar, to put it lightly. Doctors routinely mix it up on the battlefield, medics throw explosive...
Guild Wars 2’s staff Warrior opens a new avenue for frontline support
In case it isn't obvious by now, ArenaNet is clearly planning to drop a new video and dev blog for every single new weapon/class...
Guild Wars 2 previews the Thief’s upcoming axe proficiency gameplay
The upcoming weapon proliferation of Guild Wars 2 is giving Thieves an all-axes pass, if you know what we mean. You can axe any...
NCsoft Q3 2023: Mobile MMOs, not the classic PC titles, are dragging NCsoft down
If you were hoping that NCsoft's financials might perk up in Q3 after a full year of downward incline, I'm afraid I'll be disappointing...
Guild Wars 2 previews mace Rangers ahead of November 28 weapon proliferation beta
We're just one day in to Guild Wars 2's Through the Veil, and ArenaNet is already charging forward along its planned roadmap, specifically with...
Perfect Ten: The single best expansion from 10 MMOs
Holy crud, do I not know that I'm setting myself up for some major pushback today. Oh, I feel that to my core, friends!...
Albion Online is switching to a seasonal quarterly content cadence with smaller, faster updates
With Wild Blood just recently settling into the Albion Online patch archive, Sandbox Interactive is already moving on to talking about the game's next...
The Stream Team: Into the Obscure in Guild Wars 2
Surprise! You may not believe this, but Massively OP's MJ's next task in Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the Obscure is to hunt rifts!...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2 Through the Veil’s Inner Nayos and convergences
Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure was a bit of a different expansion in that it wasn't one big chunk of content dropped...
One Shots: Halloween leftovers
'Tis the week after Halloween, and even as we put away our decorations (or say "whatever" and keep them up until February), the lingering...
Massively Overthinking: The ‘elements’ of MMOs
MOP reader Nibbana recently posed us a fun question: "As I play my Scrapper in Guild Wars 2, I thought to myself, man, I...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 443: Endless adventures in cyberdreams
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 Through the Veil, WoW Emerald Dream, BlizzCon 2023, Fractured early access, and Elder Scrolls Online Endless Archive, with adventures in LOTRO, New World, Fallout 76, and Garden Galaxy, plus a mailbag question on the best money sinks in MMOs!
Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs as Saturday morning cartoons
My insane MMO and MMORPG thought experiments do indeed continue: Previously I considered what muffins MMO NPCs are, then I considered what flavor of...
One Shots: A night of masks and intrigues
The Princess Bride rightly taught me to be suspicious of anyone wearing a mask, which is why I keep my candy in a locked...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs could really use a PvP or PvE spectator mode?
Earlier this summer, MOP reader Stormsong Minstrel accidentally reminded me of a mechanic from classic Guild Wars that I shouldn't miss but do anyway....
Massively Overthinking: Are there any MMOs for which a spin-off mode would be welcome?
Pantheon's announcement that its developers are working on spinning out a monetized "247" extraction mode hasn't engendered a whole lot of hope for the...
The Stream Team: Mad King says check out the Stopped Clock Tower in Guild Wars 2!
What Mad King says, you do! That's just how the holiday works in Guild Wars 2. And who is Massively OP's MJ to argue?...
Guild Wars 2’s latest roadmap plots events, balance, and betas well into 2024
As we noted this morning, ArenaNet has announced Guild Wars 2's next Secrets of the Obscure chapter, Through the Veil, but as it happens...
Guild Wars 2’s Through the Veil and new zone launches November 7, followed by a weapon proliferation beta
If you take a peek at the 2023 calendar with Guild Wars 2 on the brain, you'll realize that it's been two months since...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would actually be better if it killed its whole endgame?
Let's have some provocative fun this morning. Let's imagine that your favorite MMORPG suddenly decided to kill its entire endgame. The devs are shaving...
