arenanet

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

They're not attractive spaceships.

Massively Overthinking: Why aren’t you playing the MMO most like your favorite sunsetted game?

51
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from reader Smuggler-in-a-YT. "Star Wars Galaxies had its problems, but the sense of community, purpose, and story (through...

Perfect Ten: The worst MMORPG expansions of all time

154
A great MMO expansion brings so much to the table: fresh excitement for a game, new classes, innovative features, expanded vistas, additional races, and...

Guild Wars 2 rings in the year of the boar with its Lunar New Year festival

0
The Lunar New Year is just around the corner, and for the peoples of Tyria, that means it's time for Guild Wars 2's annual...
There are no spoilers in this image.

Guild Wars 2 developers discuss the big dramatic ending of the latest Living World episode

6
Who likes big surprises in video game stories? All right, now who likes having those big dramatic moments spoiled ahead of time? If the...

The Stream Team: Going on Guild Wars 2 adventures

0
Now that Massively OP's MJ finally has her bunny mount, she can hop into more adventure in Guild Wars 2. And it's adventure time!...

The Daily Grind: What’s your core problem with mobile MMOs, and is it fixable?

77
Droid Gamers put out an interesting piece this weekend that to me illuminates how the ongoing conversation about mobile MMOs go south. Author Ash...
Take care.

The MOP Up: WildStar suffers another indignity

19
Miss WildStar? Well at least there's the soundtrack to listen to on various sites, right? Nope! Apparently NCsoft pulled the acclaimed score from sites...

Project Horseshoe’s design papers confirm decades of MMORPG lessons

5
Not everyone involved in game design is trying to squeeze every last penny out of you. Yes, a lot of them are, but many...
Oopsies.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 204: SpatialOS spasms

16
Justin and Bree discuss the Unity vs. SpatialOS showdown, the Destiny 2 Activision split and investigation, Elite's massive event, big updates for Guild Wars 2, FFXIV, and LOTRO, plus our adventures in ESO, LOTRO, SWG, and DDO, and reader mail on games that don't click with you, the MMOs we'd like to see built, and video game eyeballs.

Interview: Astellia’s western team on pay-to-win, themeparks, and dodging early access and battle royale

33
Yesterday we covered the news that South Korean born MMORPG Astellia is heading westward in 2019, with its holy trinity classes, solid PvE and...

The Daily Grind: When was the last time an MMO actually lived up to its trailer hype?

52
The Guild Wars 2 subreddit was marveling this past weekend over the fact that the original Guild Wars 2 teaser trailer is coming up...
I'm alive! I promise.

Guild Wars 2 Game Director Crystin Cox has departed ArenaNet

33
During research on an entirely unrelated article, we noticed that ArenaNet Game Director Crystin Cox has apparently moved on from her role on popular...

The Daily Grind: Should ArenaNet be working on Guild Wars 3?

109
Despite being a fairly healthy live MMO with plenty of good buzz, a strong following, and a steady (if slow) rollout of content patches...

Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s All or Nothing

16
One amazing trailer and a day of hype later, Guild Wars 2’s All or Nothing will be live this afternoon for us to play....

The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2018

19
We can't do an accurate "most popular MMORPG articles of 2018 by pageviews" list as we usually do thanks to skewed data from MOP's extensive...
Yarr, cut out all carbs, got much lighter.

Global Chat: How do we fight early access disasters?

50
With the year in MMOs ending on a sour note due to the botched rollouts of both Fallout 76 and Atlas, blogger Endgame Variable...
Kerstab.

Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2018

45
A not-inconsequential part of me misses the days when every MMO would pump out boxed expansions. I like buying boxes of stuff I like...
happy birthday to me

Massively OP’s Weirdest MMORPG Stories of 2018: Maintenance mode, shmaintenance mode

8
Today we're finishing off our countdown of Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2018! Coming in at #1 on our list is the one where ArenaNet yanked Classic Guild Wars out of maintenance mode and gave it some love.
This is the griffon.

Massively OP’s Weirdest MMORPG Stories of 2018: We interviewed a what?

0
Today we're continuing our countdown of Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2018! Coming in at #3 on our list is that time Eliot interviewed a statue of a griffon while getting in digs on how bad PAX East is.

Massively OP’s 2018 Blooper Awards: Weirdest MMO cross promotion

12
Massively OP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for weirdest MMO cross promotion. And the winner is...

ADVERTISEMENT

THE LATEST POSTS

TOP CONTENT