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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.

City of Heroes Homecoming’s i28p1 is live with the Marine Affinity powerset and new raid

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If you were keeping an eyeball on City of Heroes' Homecoming not-rogue servers over the last month, you already knew that the player-led volunteer...

MMO studio Daybreak is named 2023 Extra Life Partner of the Year, posts 2024 fundraising plans

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Daybreak's charity work has paid off: This week, Extra Life and Children's Miracle Network named Daybreak Games its Extra Life Partner of the Year...

One Shots: Hey World of Warcraft has housing after all…

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This just in, World of Warcraft beat Guild Wars 2 to the punch by instituting the most robust, flexible, and creative housing system ever...

The Stream Team: Hopping in to the open beta of Throne & Liberty

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It's time for MOP's Chris to once again to start on another open beta adventure! This time his destination is NCsoft's and Amazon's Throne...

Throne & Liberty’s open beta wrestles with login issues and EU server problems, showcases early access bundles

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The past day of open beta for Throne & Liberty has gone about as one might have expected, which is to say that the...

Vague Patch Notes: How widespread free-to-play impacted MMORPGs

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In 2009, Dungeons & Dragons Online went free-to-play, which was a pretty big deal at the time. It was especially important to me, since...

Guild Wars 2 deep-dives Janthir Wilds’ enhanced warclaw mount aka journeykin

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August is shaping up to be an interesting month here in MMO land, and a large part of that is the impending release of...

Aion Classic EU releases 2.8 Conquest update with new raid, instance, and level cap of 58

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Gameforge and NCsoft have been talking up Aion Classic EU's Conquest update, and as of today, that 2.8 update has arrived, with a new...

The Stream Team: Hunting the Nuhoch hunting mastery in Guild Wars 2

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It figures: Shortly after Massively OP's MJ felt relief for conquering the gliding mastery to continue with Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns story,...
Pnuk

Massively OP Podcast Episode 476: Corepunk and Pantheon race to early access

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Justin and Bree discuss Corepunk, Pantheon, Zenith, World of Warcraft, and Once Human, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on evolving FFXIV Dawntrail's storytelling.

Here’s how Throne & Liberty’s monetization system works, from currency to the auction hall

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Who's hyped for Throne & Liberty's open beta on Thursday? Well, NCsoft, for one. Amazon for two. The pair of them have released a...

Albion Online previews its new journal-themed achievement system, Albion Journal

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Are the hardcore PvP fans of Albion Online going to be entranced with a new feature called the Albion Journal? Probably not phrased that...

The MOP Up: Marvel Snap goes maximum effort with this month’s Deadpool season

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Deadpool's taken over Marvel Snap (just in time for his new movie) and is bringing a new game mode, several new cards (including Gwenpool),...

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are best at letting you bring the player, not the class?

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It was MOP's Eliot who put the ol' canard about bringing the player not the class in my head again recently, thanks to his...
aw hell

Massively Overthinking: How often do you play human MMO characters when you have other choices?

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I've been thinking about this question a bit lately, partly owing to Stars Reach and partly to Project Gorgon. Playable Worlds says Stars Reach...

Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds Kodan are basically cute environmentalist bears

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Before today, I might've said that nobody loves talking about bears as much as our writers, who keep penning articles about cool MMO bears,...

The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2’s The Predator’s Path

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With her mastery XP grind out of the way, Massively OP's MJ is finally set to continue the Heart of Thorns story in Guild...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 475: The Legend of Ralph Lobster

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Justin and Bree discuss Raph Koster's Stars Reach, Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail, Daybreak's purchase of Singularity 6 and Palia, Nexon's The First Descendant, and Guild Wars 2's housing, with a mailbag topic on the legend of Ralph Lobster.
Why shouldn't we all be here?

City of Heroes Homecoming begins public testing of new raid and Marine-themed support set

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The totally legal and licensed City of Heroes Homecoming (isn't that fun to say?!) has rolled out Issue 28: Page 1, dubbed Legacy, to...

The Daily Grind: If you could banish one piece of gear from MMOs, what would it be?

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When MMOs were new, the iconic chainmail bikini was a whole damn thing. It was the big joke in the games industry, the idea...

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