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The Daily Grind: How much in-game money are you willing to spend on an MMORPG house?
A few weeks back, we did a piece rounding up some of the cool stuff Guild Wars 2 players have been building in Janthir...
ArenaNet, Standing Stone Games, and Daybreak all queue up Extra Life charity drives this weekend
With everything happening across our neck of the gaming woods this month, it's easy to lose sight of the more warm and fuzzy things...
The MOP Up: Fae Farm launches on PlayStation, Xbox, and Windows Store
The magical co-op realm of Fae Farm expanded to even more platforms this past week: "Phoenix Labs today celebrated the release of Fae Farm...
Rumor: Guild Wars 2-themed digital CCG is called Lion’s Arch Guild Wars Arena – and it’s coming to Steam
Those sneaky sleuthy Redditors appear to have uncovered something that ArenaNet and NCsoft appear to be preparing to unveil. A SteamDB update shared by...
Throne and Liberty’s Halloween event, Haunted Harvest, is finally here
So there's some good news and bad news with Throne and Liberty's Halloween event. The bad news is that it was delayed a day;...
Classic Guild Wars baddies and bog mummies inspired Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds boss design
If you, as a Guild Wars 2 player, have had your fill of candy corn and the Mad King wrecking your face in jumping...
Perfect Ten: 2024’s MMO soundtrack themes ranked from worst to best
Try not to whip your head around all suspicious-like to check out the past 10 months, but 2024 has been a bonanza for MMO...
The Stream Team: Planting lightning rods in Guild Wars 2
If there's one thing Massively OP's MJ has experience with, it's lightning. But in Guild Wars 2, she's planting lightning rods to capture lightning...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 490: What’s old is new again
Justin and Bree discuss New World, Wayfinder, Pax Dei, Tarisland, DDO, and Ultima Online, with adventures in Guild Wars 2, New World, WoW, and LOTRO, with a mailbag topic on solo vs. group MMO play.
NCsoft Korea confirms restructure and layoffs, renames Throne & Liberty team to Studio X
Last night, we covered the disturbing industry news that NCsoft was planning a major restructure of its Korean branch owing to the long-obvious fact...
The Daily Grind: What very un-you-like MMO content do you play anyway?
Guild Wars 2 has somehow gotten me into fishing again. I generally have less than zero interest in fishing, in video games and in...
NCsoft Korea is reportedly restructuring after multiple weak revenue quarters
Korean media is reporting bad news for NCsoft, or at least fans of the company's developers and games.
Seoul-based Yonhap News has a long piece...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs actually have *good* escort quests?
I've been playing a lot of Guild Wars 2 lately, and my fellow fans will know that traditional escort quests aren't just present in...
The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2’s Mad King says to go trick-or-treating
It's that time of the year again -- the best time! With Halloween coming, Massively OP's MJ gets to delve into many a holiday...
Guild Wars 2 fans can trick-or-treat at player houses in this year’s Shadow of the Mad King event
The best Guild Wars 2 event of the year (if you don't count Super Adventure Box) has arrived as of today, as the Shadow...
One Shots: The crackle and pop of a homestead hearth
No matter how long the road, how great the challenges, or how tempting the loot, at the end of the day we simply want...
Design Mockument: How would you make a good mecha MMORPG?
So because I am me, I decided to be on the bleeding edge of topicality and start figuring out how to make a Robotech...
Massively Overthinking: How do you stop MMOs from feeling like (or becoming) a part-time job?
In last week's Choose My Adventure, MOP's Chris penned a perfect paragraph summing up the paradox of MMORPGs - it doesn't even matter what...
The Stream Team: Fighting titan blight in Guild Wars 2
Massively OP's MJ is finally out of the Kodan village in Guild Wars 2. Now, she gets to explore the wilds of Janthir. However,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 488: Amazon vs Amazon
Justin and Bree discuss Ultima Online New Legacy, New World Aeternum, Throne and Liberty, Lord of the Rings Online's Legacy of Morgoth, and fall expansions for EverQuest and EverQuest II, with adventures in World of Warcraft, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2, plus a mailbag topic on what we're willing to do for long-term MMO rewards.
