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A major global studio based in South Korea, known in the west for games like WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and Aion, among many others.

Aion KR teases possible classic server, Aion EU brings update 7.7 to the early access server

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There's some new scuttlebutt out of the world of Aion, specifically from different parts of our world. One of the most intriguing pieces of...

The Daily Grind: If a different studio could remake your favorite MMO, which one would you pick?

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MOP reader Bruno recently tweeted me a topic so great I begged him to let me pitch it to all of you. He was...

Battle Bards Episode 179: Arrr pirates!

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Shiver me timbers — the Battle Bards are coming aboard and demanding that all capable musicians appear on the poop deck and blast out...

One Shots: Rock out in your hideout

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I don't have a full-blown lair, unless my work office counts, but if I did, I would aspire to put it someplace really cool....

Global Chat: Which MMO has the best Halloween?

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That's a really good question! While pretty much every MMO has some sort of autumn/harvest/Halloween event going on this month, there are a few...

ArenaNet confirms that work on improving Guild Wars 2 latency is still ongoing

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If your Guild Wars 2 experience has been sub-optimal, the somewhat heartening news has been that ArenaNet is aware and working on it, as...

City of Heroes Homecoming’s Issue 27 beta adds new story, travel changes, and enhancement overhaul

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City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue server has been a bit sparse on new-content updates over the last little while; Issue 26, you'll recall, was...
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Massively Overthinking: Where is the line between buy-to-play, free-to-play, and subscription MMOs?

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You might think this Massively Overthinking topic is way too obvious, but I assure you, it's not! Consider this: When the buy-to-play-with-no-sub Guild Wars...

Halloween festivities in GTAO, MapleStory, Aion, and Star Stable, plus a Halloween makeup collab in Elvenar

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We'll have our complete Halloween roundup ready next week, but in the meantime, we have some spoopy events you might not want to miss...
Again.

Blade & Soul just kicked off its Halloween event, Blade & Ghoul, running through November 18

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Just because you're some kind of martial arts master with a giant sword doesn't mean you can't enjoy the fine art of gathering candy...

Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever on the innovation of the indie MMO scene

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The process of creating the MMO Ship of Heroes has apparently been enlightening to Heroic Games' CEO Casey McGeever according to an interview between...
This was a television show.

Perfect Ten: A small sampling of literary offerings from MMOs

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Salutations are in order once again for our most literate and eloquent readers of Massively Overpowered! I bid you welcome to our numerical column...

The Daily Grind: What explorer-friendly mechanics should be in more MMOs?

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When Final Fantasy XIV's Futures Rewritten patch arrives next month, it includes a nifty feature called explorer mode that will essentially allow players to...

The MOP Up: Phantasy Star Online 2 hands out more treats than tricks

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Phantasy Star Online 2 fans can log in this week to enjoy a nice burst of additional content, including the fourth and fifth chapters...

One Shots: Disco dunking

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Just because the career possibilities are limited for monsters with gigantism who have rage issues doesn't mean that they don't have feelings. Passions. A...
Glade and bhoul.

Blade & Soul’s Halloween-themed Blade & Ghoul event arrives on October 21

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It's time for something even creepier to come to Blade & Soul than the Lyn or some of the game's female outfits: It's Blade...
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We finally know who’s taking over TERA’s NA PC version: It’s Gameforge

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Two days ago, we wrote with some consternation over the fact that we knew when En Masse's TERA servers would be closing down and...

Wagadu Chronicles reaches Ikaki people and live musician stretch goals, showcases main theme

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With the $160,000 barrier crossed in its Kickstarter campaign, The Wagadu Chronicles has committed itself to developing a new lineage of people (read: playable...

Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet appears to be suffering another round of layoffs

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It looks as though ArenaNet is suffering a fresh round of layoffs, as Jennifer Scheurle, a lead designer on one of the Guild Wars...
YOU KNEW IT WOULD COME BACK

Perfect Ten: 10 notable MMO developers that shut their doors

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When En Masse Entertainment announced that it would be closing its doors this fall, we here at Massively OP came to the realization that...

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