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Seattle-based studio responsible for Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2.

Flameseeker Chronicles: Surviving the Guild Wars 2 WvW invasion

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I've been asked several times for my opinion on how best to handle the influx of non-WvW Guild Wars 2 players to the game mode...

E3 2017: Survival sandbox Ashen boasts ‘passive multiplayer’

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One of the indie highlights of this weekend's pre-E3 show was Ashen, a beautiful survival sandbox with a former Guild Wars 2 artist on board...

Global Chat: Getting a hit of that EverQuest nostalgia

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Ahh... smell that? Smells like a new batch of EverQuest nostalgia, served up to us as a fresh progression server. For some of the...

One Shots: Walk of shame

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From Zulika Mi-Nam's Adventures in Tale of Toast: Log into a game to do some play testing. "Hey, look at these cutsie graphics and...

The Daily Grind: Are social hubs and chat windows enough for your MMO needs?

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The other day I was reading up on how the upcoming Dauntless will feature a social hub where players congregate en masse and do...

Guild Wars 2’s WvW update and the first chunk of the ‘Competitive Feature Pack’ are live

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As announced at the tail end of May, ArenaNet is spending June upgrading Guild Wars 2's PvP scene, beginning with today's update, which patches up the...

One Shots: The 3:15 giant flea is on time

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When it comes to public transportation, I can think of no better way to get from point A to point B than by climbing...

Perfect Ten: My favorite MMO dungeons

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It's hard to look at an MMORPG and imagine them without dungeons. For some people, these instances are the core of their game experience,...
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Massively Overthinking: 2017’s MMORPG zeitgeist

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This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...

Here’s how ArenaNet is improving Guild Wars 2’s WvW

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As announced yesterday, ArenaNet is taking the month of June to patch the crap out of Guild Wars 2's PvP scene, and these are...
Both hands!

Guild Wars 2 signs on Wizards of the Coast dev as narrative designer

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What is Wizards of the Coast's loss is ArenaNet's gain. Michael Yichao announced on Twitter yesterday that he was leaving the Dungeons & Dragons company...

Guild Wars 2’s June feature pack is all about PvP and WvW

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So here's a new one for Guild Wars 2: The game's getting a "competitive" feature pack patch in June. The blog post was tweeted out...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2 season 3 finale predictions

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I've had enough time to fully reflect on my Guild Wars 2 Living World season 3 experience to date and wanted to circle back through...

The Game Archaeologist: How Sceptre of Goth shaped the MMO industry

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When it comes to text-based MMOs created in the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, the sheer number of them would blot out the sky. There...
And on and on and on...

Perfect Ten: Understanding MMORPG Warriors

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There is always a Warrior. Every game has a Warrior. No matter what other class options it has, a Warrior is in that list....

One Shots: Head of the class

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What do you do if you're a sentient stone head who has been tasked with centuries of guard duty? You probably do a lot...

Check out Bog Otter’s guide to returning to Guild Wars 2 as a Heart of Thorns noob

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So let's say you're somebody like MOP's Justin -- somebody who liked Guild Wars 2 way back in the day but didn't consider picking...
The jokes write themselves some days.

Boot up your Age of Conan account for a free level 80 toon on its ninth birthday

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So, Age of Conan players. Let's talk. I know this year has been kinda rough on you. You found out, as we did, that...
Sometimes this is easier said than done.

Guild Wars 2 drops extensive class balance patch

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Players logging into Guild Wars 2 yesterday might have found that their classes were changed quite a lot, thanks to a rather extensive balance...
And we shoot the varmint.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 117: Starfall no more

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On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin is joined by MJ to chit-chat about The Secret World (Legends), ESO Morrowind, TERA, RIFT, Wild West Online, Guild Wars 2, ARK, Conan Exiles, EverQuest II, Warframe, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs, F2P MMO recommendations, and our old Marvel Heroes guild.

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