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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Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with vehicle avatars
When you take a step back and look at the broad MMO genre, you see some common threads that run through most games. One...
No Man’s Sky subreddit temporarily melts down over moderator frustration
The No Man's Sky subreddit was nuked briefly overnight thanks to the frustration of the mods, who say they debated for several hours last night over...
EVE Evolved: What else is coming to EVE Online in November?
Recently I've been looking at how EVE Online will be affected by the introduction of free-to-play "alpha clone" accounts in its upcoming November expansion, but there's a...
UK watchdog group investigates No Man’s Sky advertising
Eurogamer reports today that UK watchdog group Advertising Standards Authority is investigating No Man's Sky following "several" complaints over the game's advertising practices.
Readers will...
Leaderboard: What’s the very best zone added in WoW Legion?
Last week, Massively OP's World of Warcraft columnist, Eliot Lefebvre, came damn close to coaxing me back to WoW with his piece rating Legion's...
Albion Online reveals powerful druid artifacts
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Tree of Life turns PvP into a factionalized affair
If you're not a fan of open PvP, you'll probably be quite happy that Tree of Life has waved farewell to open PvP as...
The Exiled puts forth its plans for dealing with feedback
The last few weeks for The Exiled (the game formerly known as Das Tal) have provided the developers with a lot of feedback. Plenty of...
Chaos Theory: Is it possible to complete The Secret World’s Doomboard challenge? Maybe
When The Secret World’s devs teased the Doomboard, I was pretty excited. I was totally on board for getting that sweet ride even though...
Otherland hits open beta today, launches free-to-play on September 8
The Tad Williams-inspired sci-fi MMO Otherland shuts down today for a week of open beta. When it returns for its planned September 8th launch, it...
Someone is already 110 in WoW Legion, plus faction roadblocks for old Druids
If you were a Druid eagerly looking forward to World of Warcraft: Legion who also had a particularly odd set of pre-expansion decisions, you...
Turn-based tactics game Duelyst arrives on Steam
If turn-based gameplay, card collecting, and board game tactics are your jam, then Duelyst is prepared to court your favor.
The title is now available...
Space Wars takes turn-based strategy into early access this December
On the podcast this week, one listener asked us if we could recommend -- or even think of -- any modern turn-based MMOs. Naturally,...
WoW Factor: The storm upon the Broken Shore
I sometimes get asked why I don't do more stuff within betas when I have access to them. To answer that, all I can...
The other faction’s Broken Shore cinematic in World of Warcraft can offer some lore revelations
If you've only done the Broken Shore scenario on one faction in World of Warcraft, you're missing out. Sure, you know what's going on...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG soundtracks
MOP's Justin Olivetti created the music-centered Jukebox Heroes column back on Massively-that-was and brought it along to us here, and to this day it's...
Of Kings and Men welcomes players to medieval war this month
For those who have often fantasized about riding around, living in, and fighting for a medieval country, Of Kings and Men would like to...
Five IPs that could tackle ARG gameplay features Pokemon Go lacks
Following the news that Niantic is now in fact working on a Harry Potter AR game, I realized that even as someone who enjoyed the...
Here’s everything you need to know about RIFT’s Starfall Prophecy expansion
When RIFT players cast their minds back to the last expansion, Nightmare Tide, chances are that two aspects that stick out more than the...
Guns of Icarus fires off a week of open alpha
Welcome to August, friends -- and welcome to the war as well. As of today, Guns of Icarus has opened the doors to all...