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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.

Guild Wars 2 unveils the Guardian’s ‘bullets of justice’ and delays some WvW restructuring plans

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It's not every day that you see a tanky MMO class run around with pistols, but that's the sort of fun lunacy that's coming...

Guild Wars 2 teases shortbow Engineers and their ‘essence-infused arrows’

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I have to say, as someone who counts a Holosmith in her top handful of Guild Wars 2 toons, that I couldn't initially see...
This. They're this.

Massively Overthinking: Pervasive old MMO ideas that aren’t really true

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A while back, Eliot and I were discussing one of his columns, in which he noted that in the eldest of the elder MMOs,...

G-STAR 2023: NCsoft previews not just Throne & Liberty but Battle Crush, LLL, Project BSS, Project G, and Project M

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Throne and Liberty may be the most interesting MMO in NCsoft's pipeline for MMORPG players, but it's far from the only multiplayer title the...
Stuff!

Guild Wars 2 introduces the pistol-totin’ Elementalist for testing November 28

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Elementalists, your time to pew pew in Guild Wars 2 is finally here, or will be when the weapon proliferation beta goes live on...

Throne and Liberty’s new trailer envisions an action-packed boss fight

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You know what you need today? A nice injection of trailer hype, courtesy of NCsoft's upcoming Throne and Liberty. While it's not actual gameplay...
So many colors in the rainbow.

Perfect Ten: Classic video games that would make terrible MMORPGs

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There was a time when MMORPGs were all based on existing storied single-player RPG franchises, and that time was when Ultima Online launched and...
is that a monkey?

Guild Wars 2 shows off the support options of Mesmers with rifles

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You probably do not think of rifles as a supportive option most of the time, and if someone claims that she will heal you...

The Stream Team: The search for Isgarren in Guild Wars 2

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After searching Guild Wars 2's Bastion of the Obscure, Massively OP's MJ finally saw Isgarren through a memory fragment, in which he was conversing with...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 445: Rally for Project Gorgon

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Justin and Bree discuss Project Gorgon's community, Wayfinder's layoffs, LOTRO's Corsairs of Umbar, WoW's Guardians of the Dream, and Guild Wars 2's Through the Veil, with adventures in WoW, Fallout 76, LOTRO, and Project Goron, plus a mailbag topic on why more MMOs don't use contemporary real-world settings.

Flameseeker Chronicles: Five Guild Wars 2 event farms to combat your labyrinth letdown

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My favorite thing about Guild Wars 2's Shadow of the Mad King Halloween event is the Mad King's Labyrinth. There's nothing quite like it,...
Running in the shadows.

Guild Wars 2 previews the Revenant’s upcoming tether-focused Scepter weaponry

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If you don't love Revenants in Guild Wars 2 now, you will never love them again; you can hear the Scepter saying you should...

The Daily Grind: What’s clogging up your main MMO character’s bank right now?

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Lord of the Rings Online seems deliberately designed to make even people who enjoy organizing inventories (me) a wee bit crazy about it. I...

The MOP Up: Fallout 76 turns five years old

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Fallout 76 is celebrating its fifth anniversary loud and proud this week with a birthday party on Tuesday, a special challenge event, and a...

One Shots: Protect me, mighty cactus!

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Health care in fantasy worlds is a tad peculiar, to put it lightly. Doctors routinely mix it up on the battlefield, medics throw explosive...
BORGAR

Guild Wars 2’s staff Warrior opens a new avenue for frontline support

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In case it isn't obvious by now, ArenaNet is clearly planning to drop a new video and dev blog for every single new weapon/class...
I'm killing you with a weapon!

Guild Wars 2 previews the Thief’s upcoming axe proficiency gameplay

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The upcoming weapon proliferation of Guild Wars 2 is giving Thieves an all-axes pass, if you know what we mean. You can axe any...

Nexon Q3 2023: Nexon’s getting a new CEO as its PC MMOs like MapleStory drive absurd revenue growth

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Owen Mahoney is out at Nexon - and Junghun Lee is in. That's the key bit of news coming out of the company's Q3...

NCsoft Q3 2023: Mobile MMOs, not the classic PC titles, are dragging NCsoft down

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If you were hoping that NCsoft's financials might perk up in Q3 after a full year of downward incline, I'm afraid I'll be disappointing...

Throne & Liberty elaborates on monetization and PvP concerns following its showcase video

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Last week saw Throne & Liberty dish up its promised launch showcase video, which granted potential players around the globe a look at several...

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