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Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s Visions of the Past Steel and Fire

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Just three short months ago, ArenaNet teased us in its 2020 content preview for Guild Wars 2 with a new type of story content...

Matthew Medina returns to Guild Wars 2 as senior content designer

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Considering the rash of worrying employee departure news that's been hitting Guild Wars 2 fans recently, a bit of good news is likely going...
The centaur iPad is really overpowered.

Guild Wars 2 Game Director Mike Zadorojny and VP of Marketing Mike Silbowitz left ArenaNet

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We've updated this post at the end with confirmation of the Mike Z departure. We hate to rain on the "wheee Guild Wars 2 is...

The Daily Grind: What are you hoping for out of Guild Wars 2’s Cantha-ish expansion?

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I try not to get excessively overhyped about things in MMOs, especially things probably a year and a half or more away, but I...
Read it and... well, just read it.

Guild Wars 2 just announced its third expansion, and it looks like Cantha

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Not only did Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet just drop another preview of upcoming content, exactly what fans have been begging for, but it...

Desert Arena: First impressions of Shadow Arena, the Diet Black Desert of battle royales

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Did someone just cast Arcane Echo? Because this'll be our second piece on Shadow Arena this week, following its deep-dive by our PvP columnist...
Just barely avoided this fate.

Perfect Ten: Son of conversations with anthropomorphic MMO studios

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It has been a while since I've had any more conversations with anthropomorphic representations of MMO studios. Why? Because it's not fun for me. Come...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 262: Holly Holly oxen free

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Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak's Holly Longdale's departure, City of Heroes' Homecoming video ban, PlanetSide 2's Escalation, Black Desert's birthday, Cryptic's chat nuke, Guild Wars 2's next episode, changing MMO opinions, and MMO automation, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, and SWG Legends.
pshhhhhhhhhhh

Guild Wars 2 dev blog teases Steel and Fire’s storyline – and the Eye of the North

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ArenaNet has just one week to go before the latest entry in the current Saga, Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire, hits the...
spooky, kinda

Massively Overthinking: How could MMOs combat endgame rushing?

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Rushers, content locusts, world-firsters: Whatever you want to call them, these folks are both a boon and a bane for MMORPGs. They buy the...
Accomplish.

Guild Wars 2’s Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire content lands March 17 – here’s the trailer

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During PAX East this year, Guild Wars 2 may not have been granting interviews or talking to media about the state of the game,...

PAX East 2020: Guild Wars 2 teases Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire video

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Blink and you'll miss it: Guild Wars 2's next big thing just got teased at the tail end of a PAX promo post, complete...

Desert Oasis: Understanding Black Desert’s Black Spirit

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When Black Desert first released stateside back in 2016, I wasn't interested. At the time, I was deeply invested in running Guild Wars 2's fractals,...
We were the kings and queens of promise.

Guild Wars 2’s Call to Glory balancing update and newbie onboarding patch have arrived

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Happy patch day, Guild Wars 2 players. Time to test out your nerfs and buffs in the flesh. The pixel flesh. You know what...

The Daily Grind: What untapped folklore would you like to see more of in MMOs?

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A week or two ago, I got a random PR in my inbox about Operencia: The Stolen Sun, a game we will probably never...

Jukebox Heroes: Ten MMOs that strongly support their soundtracks

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It's one thing to put a lot of music in your MMORPG or even to release that launch-day album. It's another thing entirely to...
Zero, zero, zero, Ted Danson.

Interview: Population Zero devs on the May Steam launch, buy-to-play, and PvP philosophy

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Survival MMORPG Population Zero is officially launching on Steam in early May, Enplex Games announced today. As part of the reveal, the studio's also...

Peek at Guild Wars 2’s notes for next week’s balance patch to see whether you’ve been buffed or nerfed

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Is it a proper balance patch if anyone walks away from the list of changes completely happy? ArenaNet is putting that question to the...
Yip?

Massively Overthinking: How essential are hardcore gamers to an MMO’s health?

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Last week, there was a positively eyebrow-raising thread on the Guild Wars 2 subreddit that tied neatly into the overall MMORPG meta discussion many...

Guild Wars 2 eyes new achievement track for onboarding newbies

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ArenaNet appears to be continuing its attempts to make Guild Wars 2 palatable to new players - both in terms of content in the...

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