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The Daily Grind: What are some of your MMO housing must-haves?
With the word that Guild Wars 2's next expansion will feature player housing -- homesteads in the game's parlance -- everyone seems to be...
The Stream Team: Bash the demon, smash the demon in Guild Wars 2
It's Dragon Bash time again in Guild Wars 2. But before she can Bash the dragon! Smash the Dragon, Massively OP's MJ needs to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 472: Guild Wars 2 and New World’s wild ride
Justin and Bree discuss New World's console reveal, Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds, Legends of Aria, FFXIV Dawntrail's media tour, WoW The War Within, and Diablo IV's expansion, plus adventures in LOTRO, WoW, Project Gorgon, and Ylands.
Vague Patch Notes: Chasing the metagame in MMOs isn’t the metagame at all
So a few weeks back, I did a column on what the metagame actually is in MMORPG, and then I discussed how noob traps...
NCsoft’s Battle Crush sets early access for June 27, opens crossplatform registration today
NCsoft's next big thing is coming June 27th! No, not Throne and Liberty; we're talking about its new cross-platform brawler, Battle Crush. The company...
Massively Overthinking: If you lost your account in your main MMORPG, would you start over?
The other day, MOP's Justin came into our work chat understandably nervous because he couldn't log into his Lord of the Rings Online account;...
Guild Wars 2 previews Janthir Wilds’ spears for Guardians, Rangers, and Necromancers
When ArenaNet told Guild Wars 2 fans that it would be expounding soon on how Janthir Wilds' new land spears will work for different...
Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds land spears are actually part of a new mastery line
I know you all want to hear about Guild Wars 2's new Homestead housing system, revealed yesterday as part of the Janthir Wilds expansion...
Former City of Heroes developers talk design chaos, sequels, and the MMO’s enduring legacy
Last night, I happened to log into City of Heroes Homecoming just as the team was posting up the promised mega Q&A with former...
Guild Wars 2 picked up a former Sims 4 dev to help develop Janthir Wilds’ housing system
Two new maps? New story? Land spears? Pish-posh; none of that compares to the personal housing system coming to Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds...
The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2 goes Into the Spider’s Lair
Owing to the timing of the final meta event, Massively OP's MJ was not able to finish off Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 471: A Gold Road to the promised Tarisland
Justin and Bree discuss Tarisland, Elder Scrolls Online's Gold Road, Corepunk's alpha, WoW Classic Cataclysm, SWTOR, and Star Trek Online, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on industry jargon, IGN's buying spree, and Embracer.
Guild Wars 2 announces Janthir Wilds expansion – with player housing and raid – coming August 20
So who's up for a new Guild Wars 2 expansion? What if I told you Guild Wars 2 is about to get a real...
New World is rolling out new layered instancing tech Amazon is calling ‘shards’
You might think this is just another post about murdering bunnies in New World, but you're only partly correct. New World is in fact...
The MOP Up: My Time at Sandrock will make you a proper Monster Whisperer
To start off our small news roundup this weekend, let's head over to co-op farm sim My Time at Sandrock, where the devs talked about...
One Shots: Stargazing for incoming asteroids
Now that you've got the Jurassic Park hymn playing in your head from today's headline picture, you're prepared to romp around with dinos, stick...
Guild Wars 2 embraces summer with a new line of… beach wear
Believe it or not, the summer season is here -- and it's best you start dressing like it! To help you out in that...
Vague Patch Notes: Why do so many MMOs fail?
We talk a lot about MMOs that fail here on Massively Overpowered. I wrote a whole column about how our standards of success are...
Massively Overthinking: Is tab targeting a problem in MMORPGs?
This past weekend, MMO designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street lobbed another bomb rather cavalierly into the MMORPG discourse, this one about tab targeting. And maybe...
The Stream Team: Concluding Guild Wars 2’s Secrets of the Obscure
Taking a quick break from Guild Was 2's Heart of Thorns, Massively OP's MJ is returning to Secrets of the Obscure (which is only...
