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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EVE Evolved: Four PvE improvements EVE needs
EVE Online is typically thought of as being a heavily PvP-oriented game, and for good reason. Players can attack each other anywhere in the...
One Shots: Fire + ice = mess
What do you get when you mix fire and ice? A steamy combination of incredible pictures... and an awful mess.
Steampower Girl noticed that in...
The Soapbox: Sharing MMORPGs with my kids
"Dad, can I pilot your ship tonight?"
I turn around to see my seven-year-old son giving me Bambi eyes with his hands clasped because, somewhere...
Aion returns to the Tower of Eternity in July
Some of the most momentous occasions in MMORPGs aren't when players are invited to explore strange, new zones, but when the community comes back...
Here’s how Guild Wars 2 blends creature and environment art to build a raid boss
ArenaNet has a fresh Guild Wars 2 video out today as part of its raid design series, this one focused on the art design...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with distinct visual styles
Given the choice, I am always going to pick a game with stylized graphics over realistic ones. This is for many reasons; it's partly...
Guild Wars 2’s Bobby Stein says raids won’t gate main story progress
ArenaNet's Narrative Lead Bobby Stein has hit the Guild Wars 2 forums to address some of the concerns raised this week when a forum...
Master X Master’s first alpha is locked in for June 21
NCsoft has announced that the first western alpha playtest for its IP-spanning MOBA Master X Master will kick off on June 21st.
"We’ll be focusing...
Happy Steam launch day, WildStar
WildStar is officially live on Steam now as announced earlier this week. Carbine is kicking off the launch with the return of the Space...
Explore Lineage II’s giant floating castle and battle ancient giants
Look there, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a massive inexplicably floating castle begging to be explored and plundered!
The Dreadnought...
Superdata: WoW, Lineage, SWTOR, TERA, and Blade & Soul top April P2P online games revenues
Superdata has a new seasonal report out on the state of the digital games market. The research firm's April figures show that World of...
Raiding might be a component in Guild Wars 2’s living story season three
If you were hoping that raiding will quietly disappear in Guild Wars 2 the way so many other features have over the years, you...
Guild Wars 2 devs discuss how the game’s latest raid wing was built
ArenaNet is rolling out the hype machine for next week's Guild Wars 2 update, the star of which is the third wing of its...
WildStar preps for tomorrow’s Steam release
Is this WildStar's last shot at stabilizing and becoming profitable for the indefinite future? There's a lot riding on tomorrow's Steam release, and Carbine...
WildStar is finally coming to Steam – on Thursday
As promised, WildStar is indeed launching on Steam -- and Carbine has just announced that the big day is this coming Thursday, June 9th.
"Alongside the...
Guild Wars 2 teases final wing of its first raid in new trailer
ArenaNet has just dropped a teaser trailer for Stronghold of the Faithful, Guild Wars 2's next raid wing.
"In the third and final wing of...
WildStar is buffing its security ahead of its Steam launch
New security measures land in WildStar today. According to Carbine's blog post, the studio is implementing new IP checks upon login.
"When logging into WildStar,...
Here’s what’s going on with Guild Wars 2’s plot right now
We wouldn't blame you if you have fallen behind in Guild Wars 2's complex mythology and exciting narrative. To help you get up to...
The MOP Up: EVE Online phases out DirectX 9 (June 5, 2016)
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...
Guild Chat: Giving a newbie Blade & Soul clan purpose
Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, my cosy wee corner of Massively Overpowered in which I break down a reader's guild related...