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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.

Global Chat: What’s World of Warcraft Cataclysm’s best zone?

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Wilhelm over at The Ancient Gaming Noob kicks off our tour of various MMO essays as he lists and ranks all of the zones...

Throne & Liberty addresses ongoing errors, disconnections, and invisible characters

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As Throne and Liberty approaches its first full weekend as a free-to-play MMORPG, Amazon and NCsoft have issued a letter to the community, saying...

Massively Overthinking: Has the term MMORPG become toxic?

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Back in 2016, when the MMORPG genre had just suffered a brutal one-two punch of losing EverQuest Next and the gutting of WildStar's team,...

GeForce NOW’s October games lineup kicks off with the addition of Throne and Liberty

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Throne and Liberty seems to be kind of everywhere right now, what with its free-to-play launch on Steam, PS5, and Xbox X|S this week,...

The Stream Team: Let’s dive into the newly launched Throne and Liberty

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It's time for MOP's Chris to hop into Throne and Liberty for real this time! He's had some time to get to just about...

Four Winds: Throne & Liberty’s opening hours were fun AF, but I’m still on my guard

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After what feels like an absolute eternity, Throne and Liberty is finally here. In my younger, less jaded years, I'd feel excited and elated...
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Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you bring a whole squad of pets and minions

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Pet classes are not really my jam. I don't want my companion to be doing the tanking or damage or healing or whatever, and...

Throne & Liberty adds 41 new servers to handle global launch pops, peaking at 326K Steam players so far

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Welp, we knew that Throne and Liberty was going to see a big blast of players when it switched from its paid headstart to...

The Stream Team: Pondering post-poo and politics plans in Guild Wars 2

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After a night of poo and politics, Massively OP's MJ wonders what exactly is the next step in Guild Wars 2's story. What are...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 487: Give me Throne and Liberty

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Justin and Bree discuss Throne & Liberty's launch, the new book on Blizzard, ArcheAge 2's morph into ArcheAge Chronicles, and New World Aeternum's impending release, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, plus a mailbag topic on MMO history and games preservation.

City of Heroes Homecoming is about to release 1.6M character names – here’s how to save yours

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The legally licensed City of Heroes Homecoming team has released an update today, though it's not entirely the content kind. The most important part...

NCsoft’s MMORPG Throne & Liberty has officially arrived at its global F2P launch

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All right folks, if you've been waiting for Lineage 3 aka Lineage Eternal aka Project TL for the last decade, your moment is finally...

Lineage II kicks off autumn events across all three of its versions

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The season of falling leaves and cooling weather (ideally anyway) is being marked across all versions of Lineage II, with new seasonal fun to...

One Shots: Even monsters should brush their teeth

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Imaginations being what they are, I've spent perhaps too much time thinking about what sentient monster lives are like when we're not beating the...

Aion Classic EU announces an official PvP tournament for October 19

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Remember when one of the big ticket features for Aion was its two-faction PvP? Pepperidge Farm remembers. And so does Gameforge apparently, as...
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Massively Overthinking: Do you expect compensation for MMORPG trainwrecks?

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Earlier this week, Blizzard admitted that a major bug had resulted in serious and permanent data loss for some World of Warcraft players, including...

First Impressions: Throne and Liberty blends the overly familiar with the intriguingly unique

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Throne and Liberty represents a new big-label MMORPG launch, which is something that feels like a rare occurrence, particularly as most players are likely...
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Vague Patch Notes: When leveling too quickly becomes a problem in MMORPGs

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Last week, I talked about how slow leveling design could become a problem. In that piece (and the one before it - it's become...

Throne & Liberty officially begins its paid headstart today – are you playing?

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OK, folks, it's game day, literally: The game is Throne and Liberty, which we've been waiting for for over a decade, though of course...

The Guild Wars 2 community prepares Foostival events for fans in France and Germany

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Voulez-vous aller a une fete pour Guild Wars 2? Parce que ca arrive bientot! There, see, those French lessons did pay off for work....

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