Factions is a standalone expansion for Guild Wars that released on April 28, 2006. It may also refer to the combat module release of Origins of Malu.
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World of Warcraft takes fans behind the scenes of the character creator rework
A lot of elements of the character creator in World of Warcraft changed when Shadowlands launched. This is probably not news to anyone who is playing...
Massively Overthinking: Should MMOs have endings – or at least end points?
I suspect most MMO players are going to read that question and immediately balk at it. We think of MMOs as being defined in...
New World’s faction PvP is rife with guild drama over ‘throwing’
The problem with a three-faction territory control PvP game like New World is that, without some manner of balance adjustment, one of the three...
Neverwinter brings around its Masquerade of Liars for more Halloween fun this year
In a world filled with polymorph spells, costume contests probably have a very different feel. Neverwinter is not going to explore that possibility, however. It's...
New World’s update adjusts faction influence, but we still have no transfers
We've made it past the two-week mark since the launch of Amazon's New World, and this week, MOP's even kicked off a new column...
Guild Wars 2 teases End of Dragons’ lush Shing Jea zone in new trailer
Shing Jea: If you played Classic Guild Wars: Factions, it's the island you grew up on, literally. And of course, it's coming with the...
Massively Overthinking: Initial impressions of New World
Amazon's Queue World - uh, I mean, New World - is finally upon us. In fact, I imagine that it's been hard to avoid...
Co-op/PvP shooter The Cycle has begun closed beta today
Multiplayer shooter The Cycle has officially launched its closed beta, which runs through the entirety of October. German Studio Yager has been talking up...
Guild Wars 2 stream previews End of Dragons’ Vindicator, Bladesworn, and Catalyst
Guild Wars 2 players are getting no shortage of new expansion info lately, between last week's fishing and skiff stream and last month's preview...
WoW Classic releases Overlords of Outland, WoW Patch 9.1.5 undergoes additional testing
The watchword of World of Warcraft this week is "patches." Patches of patches of patches. Miles of patches. Patches of all shapes, sizes, and...
Guild Wars 2’s next End of Dragons elite spec reveal is the Revenant’s Vindicator
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Neverwinter’s next campaign, Echoes of Prophecy, totes along free and paid battlepasses
PWE and Cryptic announced this morning that they're launching a new campaign - with what looks like two tiers of battle pass - for...
GDC 2021: War stories from World of Warcraft
Just before the news about the state litigation against Activision-Blizzard broke last month, Senior Software Engineer Joseph Cochron and Principal Software Engineer Kurtis McCathern...
PlanetSide 2’s playable robots re-emerge as a free faction on PS4
Everyone knows the acronyms of PvE and PvP, but what about PvB? We'll call that "Player vs. Bots," and it's especially relevant in PlanetSide...
First impressions: Elyon is a boring world with compelling gameplay and customization systems
I’m going to be perfectly honest, I went in to Elyon with some pretty low expectations. Watching it be transmuted from Ascent: Infinite Realm,...
Global Chat: Hitting that endgame wall in MMOs
MMO blogger Digital Visceral recently wrote about a situation that many of us encounter in our games: Hitting that max level and feeling at...
Starbase plans to amend its stance on stream sniping citing language that is ‘too encouraging’
We're not sure exactly what Starbase developer Frozenbyte thought would happen when the game's griefing policies outright read "stream sniping is allowed," but apparently...
New World kicks off the Tales of Aeturnum series with the Angry Earth
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Fight or Kite: Crowfall’s latest release brings RvR and ‘pop-up PvP’ to the forefront
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 333: Dragon us back to Guild Wars 2
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons, Pathfinder Online, Crimson Desert, and Week Two of the Blizzard Scandal, with adventures in LOTRO, FFXIV, Albion, Guild Wars 2, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on boycotts in the MMO space.
