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Massively OP Podcast Epsiode 37: Heart of Thorns chat

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Justin and Tina team up for a special Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns podcast episode.

Trove announces the Revenant class

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It's the bloodiest (and blockiest) knight you'll ever see in an MMO: the Revenant. Trove announced its newest class in a post today, saying that...

Guild Wars 2 starts testing 64-bit client

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Your Guild Wars 2 client could be getting an upgrade in the near future, particularly if you have the hardware to handle it. ArenaNet Game...

Choose My Adventure: Into the Heart of Thorns

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Hello again friends, and welcome back to Choose My Adventure. November is upon us, and that means two things: It's time for another round...
Fail together!

NCsoft Q3 2015: Guild Wars 2, WildStar, all sales dip downward [Updated]

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The bad news for the most recent NCsoft financial report is that once again, profits from WildStar were down slightly from the previous quarter...

Global Chat: The frustrations and joys of Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns

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The player debate and analysis over the virtues and vices of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns has -- unsurprisingly -- evoked strong opinions...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 36: Team Sparkles

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Justin and Bree discuss the World of Darkness sale, Star Trek Online, LOTRO's Minas Tirith, and Marvel Heroes, with mailbag questions on minimum viable products and social ecosystems.

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s immediate future

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I imagine that the launch of Heart of Thorns was quite a bittersweet event for the ArenaNet gang: The sense of relief and celebration...

Johanson previews Guild Wars 2’s road ahead

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If you're wondering what's in store for Guild Wars 2 before the end of the year, Colin Johanson's latest post has the answers. Before he...

Jukebox Heroes: An MMO Halloween playlist

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Halloween is upon us, that spooky and magical time of year that exists both in real life and in many of our MMOs. While...

Leaderboard: Heart of Thorns vs. Knights of the Fallen Empire

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With two giant MMO expansions releasing this month, it seems only natural that we take the opportunity to pit them against one another in...
It's a fooler.

Perfect Ten: Ten really great races from MMOs

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Here I go, here I go, here I go again. Girls, what's my weakness? Non-human races. But oh, so many MMOs let me down...

Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns launch diary: How to fix an expansion iteratively

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I know I promised you an entry that focused on the changes to the in-game economy as my next installment to the Heart of Thorns...

ArenaNet is tweaking Guild Wars 2’s elite specialization system

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ArenaNet's Colin Johanson says that the firm is updating Guild Wars 2 to reflect feedback received from players who are digging into the recent...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 35: Expansions galore

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Justin and Larry deep-dive into SWTOR's Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion, with news on Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, Halloween, EVE Vegas, ArcheAge, WildStar, and Star Trek Online.

The Daily Grind: Do you prefer soloing or grouping in MMORPGs?

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As we belatedly covered yesterday, the developers of upcoming indie MMO Saga of Lucimia believe that group-centric play is the solution to a problem supposedly created by the...

Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns launch diary: Gaining masteries and lessening the grind

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I've had the whole weekend with Heart of Thorns now, and I'm progressing very nicely in both the story and masteries. I've still yet to...

The MOP Up: The secret history of Destiny (October 25, 2015)

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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...

One Shots: Pure Final Fantasy XIV

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Every so often it seems as though the One Shots mailbox starts getting dominated with a single game. I've had this happen with Guild...

Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns launch diary: Initial impressions

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I've now put a solid day of playtime into Heart of Thorns, so I decided that it was finally time for the first of my...

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