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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Massively Overthinking: The worst chat in the MMORPG genre
The first rule of MMORPGs is turn off global chat. Think about that for a sec. This is a genre that is expressly multiplayer...
Guild Wars 2 sets Festival of the Four Winds for next week as players grump over anniversary sales and birthday gifts
Earlier this week, just ahead of the game's ninth anniversary, Guild Wars 2 dropped a fresh roadmap to get us through the fall. Your...
South Korea plans to abandon its 10-year-old ‘Cinderella law’ gaming curfew for kids
If you can stretch your brain back a decade, you might remember a flurry of articles in the western press about a gaming curfew...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 336: Bards and battleships
Justin and Bree discuss World of Warships, Roblox, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, Elyon, and Neverwinter, with adventures in LOTRO, FFXIV, GW2, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on repurposing nostalgia and transplanting MMO systems.
Guild Wars 2 counts 16M accounts, drops fall roadmap, teases End of Dragons fishing and skiffs
Remember how excited everyone was to get the Guild Wars 2 summer roadmap out of ArenaNet earlier this year? Prepare to get excited all...
Fight or Kite: How Guild Wars 2’s Harbinger, Willbender, and Virtuoso stack up in PvP
Guild Wars 2 has always been my go-to home for MMOs. There’s just so much the studio did right when designing the game. But...
The MOP Up: Ankama, the studio behind Wakfu and Dofus, turns 20
This past week marked a huge milestone for the parent studio of Wakfu and Dofus, as Ankama turned 20 years old. To celebrate, Ankama...
PSA: Aion Classic is handing out a three day-long subscription bonus to all players this weekend
Are you enjoying your time in Aion Classic but not enough to buy the buff-granting subscription? Then you'll probably want to know more about...
Perfect Ten: My top 10 MMO pet peeves
In general, I try to be an optimistic fellow. When it comes to MMO gaming -- you know, that hobby we apparently love and...
NCsoft says Lineage W will launch this year for PC, mobile, PS5, and the Switch
Last week, we covered NCsoft's initial reveal of Lineage W, yet another entry in the long-running Lineage franchise. Lineage W, however, was initially pitched...
Guild Wars 2 brings back its fourth season of living world play next week
We're sure you're all pretty busy playing Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons first beta right about now - and if you're not, then...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s new Harbinger, Virtuoso, and Willbender elite specs
One of the most anticipated features of any Guild Wars 2 expansion is unquestionably the addition of new elite specializations. We got our first...
Guild Wars 2’s first beta event for End of Dragons’ elite specs is live today
If you're anxious to get your hands on the first three Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons elite specs, then today is your day...
Blade and Soul 2 offers a quick look at sword versus axe one-on-one PvP gameplay
There have been plenty of videos coming out of Blade and Soul 2, but a vast majority of them have been pre-rendered CG animations,...
WildStar’s Stephan Frost shares the depressing ‘flat circle’ of MMO development
Former WildStar lead Stephan Frost piped up on Twitter this past Friday to share a story. This isn't just any story, but rather all...
The Daily Grind: Does a class’ style or playstyle matter more to you in MMOs?
Consider this my ode to the Guild Wars franchise's Mesmers. I love everything about them but how they play in practice. I love how...
The MOP Up: Warface’s Hidden War is revealed
This week, Warface kicked off its Hidden War season: "The season update adds a new PvP-map called Ruins for capture mode where players can...
Lineage W is yet another mobile version of the MMO series ‘strategically developed for global users’
At this point, the Lineage series is going to undergo so much mitosis that it will finally become a multi-cellular organism that will randomly...
One Shots: Flying into bugs at 90 mph
Flight may look cool on the superhero travel powers selection screen, but what they don't tell you in the shop is that it comes...
Guild Wars 2 deep-dives elite specs, previews August 17 balance changes
If you were looking to find out more about the three elite specs that were revealed by Guild Wars 2, then you might want...
