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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Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking Guild Wars 2’s A Crack in the Ice
I've covered plenty of ground since my initial impressions piece went live last week, and I'm hoping that you've had time to play Guild Wars...
Korean MMO from the ’90s returns to life
Have you ever heard of an MMO called Helbreath? Don't be ashamed if you haven't, as it never hit the big leagues and has...
Lineage II: Revolution arrives on December 14
Mobile gamers look like they will be getting an early Christmas present from Netmarble, as Lineage II: Revolution's launch has finally been dated for...
Perfect Ten: Moments to be thankful for in MMOs
It's the holiday once again, and somehow I've wound up on Thanksgiving Day here in the US. You may not be reading this on...
Master X Master tests its Titan Ruins this weekend
NCsoft's upcoming Master X Master is thankful for a chance to squeeze in another playtest this week. The MOBA is currently running an alpha...
Guild Wars 2’s Nightmare Fractals aim to mix accessibility with complexity
Fractals: Love 'em or hate 'em, they're here to stay in Guild Wars 2. The latest, dubbed The Nightmare Fractal, is a ground-up do-over...
Global Chat: Recapturing the MMO magic
I suspect that much of the willingness of players to pour money into MMO Kickstarters is out of a strong desire to see games...
Guild Wars 2 AMA covers lockboxes, old dungeons, and economy quirks
Last night, ArenaNet's Mike O'Brien and 16 other members of the Guild Wars 2 live team hopped on Reddit for an AMA coinciding with...
First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s A Crack in the Ice episode
ArenaNet gave us all word of a seasonably frosty addition to the Guild Wars 2Â Living World story last week: The third instalment of season...
Where is Jeremy Soule’s Kickstarter symphony?
Back in 2013, Composer Jeremy Soule (Landmark, Guild Wars 2) launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $10,000 to fund his personal project of creating...
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the Guild Wars 2 fanatic
The best holiday of the year is almost here! I'm talking about Black Friday, of course, that magical day when everything is on sale! I'm...
Blade and Soul announces the Gunslinger and Korean F2P
It seems so very long ago, but the beginning of 2016 was dominated with excitement and expectations for Blade and Soul. For a good...
One Shots: A home away from home
If you were to move into an MMO for real, where would you live? I posed this question last week to the One Shots...
The Daily Grind: Do you make use of your MMORPG’s public test realms?
The patch server. The PTR. The PTS. Whatever your MMORPG calls it, it's probably got one: some sort of publicly accessible server that gets the...
Guild Wars 2 addresses raiding tiers and accessibility
In response to players agitating for improving raiding in Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet Game Designer Crystal Reid has addressed both tiers and accessibility for...
Jukebox Heroes: Six pretty great MMO tunes from games you’ve never played
In my years of coverage of MMO soundtrack music in this column and on Battle Bards, I've clearly observed that there are games that...
Guild Wars 2 addresses outage bugs, NCsoft deals with DDOS attacks
When you're running an online game, there are certain words that are pretty much always a harbinger of problems. Words like "outage," and "missing,"...
NCsoft appears to be blocking former Soviet states from WildStar
Reports this morning that players in various former Soviet countries, among others, had been unceremoniously barred from accessing NCsoft MMORPGs WildStar and Guild Wars...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 91: Accounting 101
Justin and Bree talk NCsoft & Nexon, Neocron, Marvel Heroes, SWTOR, EVE Online, Black Desert, Twin Saga, and The Secret World, with mailbag questions on MMO factions and Blizzard's duty to the genre, plus a preview of the second part of our Mark Jacobs interview.
Guild Wars 2’s next episode, A Crack in the Ice, drops November 21
Guild Wars 2 has just released the first trailer for A Crack in The Ice, the third episode of the third season of living...
