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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The Daily Grind: Did you take advantage of any Black Friday sales in MMOs this weekend?
I did a ton of shopping - all online, mind you, as I'm not so far gone as to actually put on pants or...
The MOP Up: League of Legends doesn’t want to grow up (November 26, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
One Shots: The rat race
At times, I feel like I must be the responsible adult in the MMORPG genre and sit down some of these artists and tell...
MassivelyOP’s 2017 PC hardware gift guide
Since you're reading this, there's a good chance that you own a PC that you at least occasionally use for gaming, and there's an...
Ship of Heroes resurrects the crowd controller playstyle
Do you miss playing your Controller in City of Heroes? One of that game's spiritual successors wants to resurrect the concept of a mez-happy...
Perfect Ten: MMO things to be thankful about this year
It's kind of hard to be thankful this year. Sure, some good things have happened this year, but we also have some things that,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 145: Farewell Marvel Heroes and Master X Master
Justin and Bree discuss the sunsets of Marvel Heroes and Master X Master, NCsoft's and Funcom's quarterly financials, EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2 business model fiasco, and Path of Exile's upcoming expansion, with a mailbag question on slowing down for classic WoW.
Jukebox Heroes: Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire’s soundtrack
I feel comfortable in saying that I hold the Guild Wars franchise's soundtrack in high regard. There's excellent music across the board from a...
Check out Guild Wars 2’s ‘Daybreak’ living story season 4 trailer
If you were excited about last week's Guild Wars 2 living story season 4 announcement but found the recap trailer wanting, welp, you're going...
MMO Mechanics: What can be learned from Guild Wars 2 Mountgate?
Most often, MMO Mechanics articles focus on the gameplay mechanics that both make the MMO genre unique and those that diversify MMOs from one...
Lineage 2: Revolution recruits Conan O’Brien for western domination
What is the mobile game that everyone will be talking about this holiday season? Netmarble is confident that the answer to that is "Lineage...
Global Chat: Why you need to be playing Warframe
You know what's one MMO that seems to be capturing the interest of a lot of gamers these days? Warframe. It seems to be...
One Shots: Gassy and bloated
I do think that we, as a culture, have become disturbingly obsessed with selfies, but I will always make an exception for anyone who...
WildStar teases Black Friday deals
Shh, don't tell NCsoft that WildStar is still operating! If we're all good and still, then the closure-happy studio might overlook this struggling-but-fun MMO....
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would you recommend to Marvel Heroes refugees?
So Marvel Heroes has about six weeks to live thanks to the impending shutdown of the game following Disney's decision to drop Gazillion as...
Blade & Soul grants character boosts, Blade & Soul Revolution struts its stuff on mobile
With only a few weeks left before Blade & Soul drops its "biggest patch ever," NCsoft is gifting players a bundle of goodies to...
NCsoft is already sunsetting MOBA Master X Master
NCsoft announced this evening that it will sunset its relatively new MOBA Master X Master, explaining that the game just "wasn’t enough to take...
Netmarble mobile MMO Lineage 2 Revolution has officially launched
As the Google Play app on my phone frantically notified me this morning, Lineage 2 Revolution has officially launched itself right on out of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 144: Harry Potter and the Deathly ARG
Justin and Bree talk Guild Wars 2 mounts, the Harry Potter ARG, SWTOR's merge, WoW, LOTRO, Pocket Legends Adventures, Android games, and Bluehole's Ascent: Infinite Realm, with mailbag questions on GW2 marketing, visual effect shenanigans, and MMOs as escapism.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking more of Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire story
As promised, Flameseeker Chronicles is back with a continuation of the Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire story deep-dive I've been crafting over the last few...