A major global studio based in South Korea, known in the west for games like WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and Aion, among many others.
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TERA and Aion EU are among the Gameforge titles ready to celebrate the holidays
Please don't let the angry Shugo or the emotionally neutral humans in the header image fool you, there's lots of holiday cheer to be...
LOTRO Legendarium: What Daybreak’s sale revealed about LOTRO
Just when I thought we were getting to a quieter point in the year where I could engage in a leisurely wrap-up of the...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: RISE, Carth, Hunternet Starfighter, World of Kung Fu, Heroes Evolved, Arelot Kingdom, and Project EVE
Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you’ve probably never heard of. Of course, YOU have heard of them,...
Massively Overthinking: MMO cash shop confessions
Do you ever pick up a drink absentmindedly, thinking it's going to be something, but it's actually something totally different that you hate? You...
City of Heroes: Homecoming starts its holiday event and improves long-range transport
Oh, there's no place like City of Heroes: Homecoming for the holidays, for no matter how far you should roam... you can always get back...
Desert Oasis: Black Desert Online should be 2020’s MMO of the year
Well here we are again, heading to the end of another year. And while many are eager for this year to end, us gamers...
Guild Wars 2 rolls out a PvP class balance patch
It's that old adage of MMOs that nobody wants developers to mess with their classes -- unless the devs totally buff those classes up...
CDPR frames Cyberpunk 2077’s multiplayer as a ‘standalone product’
Cyberpunk 2077 is a game we've kept half an eyeball on over the last few years, basically entirely because of the lingering promise that...
Guild Wars 2 delays WvW world linking until Friday
One of the newer systems that Guild Wars 2 uses to maintain World vs. World population and rank balance is temporarily offline this week....
WildStar’s devs and fans love on the game two years after its demise
This past weekend saw a special and sad date for WildStar fans, as November 28th marked the two-year anniversary of the game's closure. Some...
The Daily Grind: Do you actually like noob zones in MMORPGs?
I think there's a widespread grumpiness for MMORPG tutorials. Either they're so pointless and easy that you're bored, or they deluge you with too...
One Shots: The life of fish people
Indentured servitude is something that Final Fantasy XIV likes to introduce to its players, such as poor Scott, who discovered that he's in for...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best method for delivering MMO quests?
I have long held that among the many (many) things World of Warcraft codified in the big book of MMORPG "rules" is the quest...
Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the devs of the MMO genre
Thanksgiving conveniently falls on a Thursday every year, which means it's the perfect topic for our regular Thursday Massively Overthinking roundtable. I've asked our writers what they're grateful for in and around the MMO genre the last couple of years - and now we're gonna do it again.
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO blessings to be thankful for in 2020
There is no doubt that this has been a much more difficult year than most in many respects, almost to the point where it's...
The Stream Team: The Way Forward in Guild Wars 2
The next step in Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire story is Chapter 8: The War Forward. But Massively OP's MJ will have to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 298: The one with the chocobo
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Shadowlands, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2 Truce, Final Fantasy XIV, and Wizard 101, with adventures in New World and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on WoW marketing and our defining MMORPGs.
City of Heroes Homecoming Issue 27 with its major enhancement overhaul is live today
So it seems I picked the right week to head back into City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue servers, as the patch that's been in...
NCsoft Q3 2020: Guild Wars 2 just had its best revenue quarter in two years
Let's get the best news for western players in this NCsoft financial report out first: Guild Wars 2 just saw a bit of a...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite ‘oh shit’ button in an MMO?
Last summer, I put up a Daily Grind on how people feel about "oh shit" buttons in MMOs - you know, those long-cooldown panic...
