factions

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.

Massively Overthinking: Initial impressions of New World

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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

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Multiplayer shooter The Cycle has officially launched its closed beta, which runs through the entirety of October. German Studio Yager has been talking up...
This was neat, but eh.

Guild Wars 2 stream previews End of Dragons’ Vindicator, Bladesworn, and Catalyst

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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

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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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ArenaNet has officially taken the wraps off the Guild Wars 2 Vindicator this morning - that's the End of Dragons elite spec for the...

Neverwinter’s next campaign, Echoes of Prophecy, totes along free and paid battlepasses

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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

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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

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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...
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First impressions: Elyon is a boring world with compelling gameplay and customization systems

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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

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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’

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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...
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New World kicks off the Tales of Aeturnum series with the Angry Earth

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It's going to be a little longer until you get to try out New World, but the development team is doing its bets to...

Fight or Kite: Crowfall’s latest release brings RvR and ‘pop-up PvP’ to the forefront

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It’s been about a month since the release of Crowfall, and the team at ArtCraft hasn’t let off the gas yet. This past week...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 333: Dragon us back to Guild Wars 2

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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.

Flameseeker Chronicles: The End of Dragons reveal didn’t wow people – and that’s OK

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We finally have our first real peek at the features and story of Guild Wars 2’s third expansion, End of Dragons. It has been...

EVE Online’s record-breaking World War Bee 2 has seemingly come to an end

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In an unexpected twist, one of the largest and longest-running wars in EVE Online came to a close with a fizzle instead of a...

MassivelyOP interview: Talking ship design with Star Trek Online’s Donny Versiga

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If you play Star Trek Online, you know that ship collecting is one of the major pastimes of captains all over the Federation and...

Massively Overthinking: Load-bearing playerbases in MMORPGs

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Game developer Damion Schubert is known to MMO players for his work on everything from Ultima Online to SWTOR, but as it turns out,...

Guild Wars 2 on how it’s upgrading the Canthan language from Factions to End of Dragons

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ArenaNet apparently isn't waiting for next week to start the hype for Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons reveal, as today it released a...
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Players sound the alarm over faction balance in World of Warcraft: Classic

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Well, World of Warcraft might be struggling right now, but at least everything's going peachy over on WoW Classic, right? Not so much, really....

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