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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LOTRO’s new allegiance system will take you to fantastic places
One of the new major systems that's coming with Lord of the Rings Online: Mordor deals with your pledged allegiance to certain Middle-earth factions....
Puzzle Pirates sails into the Dark Seas
Fourteen years into its quirky voyages, Puzzle Pirates still hasn't exhausted unknown ports of call. The MMO announced this week that it is starting...
Massively Overthinking: Do MMORPGs aspire to pro-social mechanics?
Massively OP reader and Patron Avaera has a thoughtful question for the team and readers this week. "I wish more virtual world games thought deeply...
Chaos Theory: Week one impressions of Secret World Legends
It's been a week since Funcom threw open the doors of Secret World Legends' headstart to everyone and removed the NDA. That's seven days...
Chaos Theory: Guide to The Secret World’s Templars faction
It's Templar Time! After looking at the Illuminati and delving into the Dragon, it's now time to tie up this trio of guides and...
Revelation Online explores the motivation of the Pirate Crew faction
Pirates! It's pretty easy to understand the motivation of pirates most of the time; pirates want to get stuff by taking it from other...
Chaos Theory: Guide to Secret World’s Dragon faction
When it comes to chaos, do you tend to run away (possibly screaming), or run toward it? If you lean toward the latter, you...
Perfect Ten: What the mainstream games media doesn’t get about MMORPGs
Ever since becoming an MMORPG player and especially since covering these games professionally, I've realized one of my greatest pet peeves is the attitude the...
ArcheAge Erenor Eternal update dev tour: Trading revamp and new zones
Have you got the urge to explore? ArcheAge's Erenor Eternal launches this evening, bringing three brand-new zones for players to gallivant about in. Of course,...
Star Trek Online debuts new lockbox items, deploys Escalation console patch
Over the years, Star Trek Online has featured a number of ships and enemy factions from one-off episodes, including an entire group of enemies...
Preview: Behind the gates of RuneScape’s Menaphos, opening today
One of the worst teases in a game for me is to see a place and not be able to go and explore it....
The MOP Up: Revelation Online’s monthly challenges (June 4, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Albion Online’s black market is a brilliant solution for a sandbox economy
Albion Online Game Director Robin Henkys has a fresh video out today explaining the game's black market.
Albion is one of those fairly rare MMORPGs...
The MOP Up: Pox Nora’s PS4 launch (May 28, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Elder Scrolls Online introduces you to Vvardenfell’s house factions
Let's talk about Elder Scrolls Online's new houses today, shall we? No, it's not going to be a discussion of player housing, although that...
Win That War hauls out a ‘truly massive scale RTS”
Remember when real-time strategy games were all the rage and not games where you did weird things with dino poop to stay alive? Insane...
Revelation Online’s Iceborn update melts on your PC today
Revelation Online's Iceborn update is live in the game today as promised. The big draw is the faction war for level 40+ characters, along with what...
Revelation Online launches Iceborn patch and faction war next week
Revelation Online is pushing out a big update next week. Iceborn asks players to "partake in a region-wide faction war, putting aside differences and...
Dauntless introduces players to the cramped, cold, unhospitable home base of Ramsgate
Ramsgate is not the sort of city you would choose as a vacation destination. It's cramped. It's built in a terrible spot. It's right...
Chaos Theory: Guide to Secret World’s Illuminati faction
Kirsten Geary. That is almost all you have to say when talking about the Illuminati faction in The Secret World. That's because the infamous...