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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite biome type in MMOs?
A while back, Pantheon posted some slides for some of its in-production biome types that caught my attention. Obviously, the mockups are slick, and...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the ideal content cadence for an MMORPG in 2023?
Earlier this week, Guild Wars 2 revealed a major shake-up of its content delivery cadence. Studio ArenaNet suggested that the traditional living world cadence...
Guild Wars 2 music video is nominated for a Best Original Song at the G.A.N.G. awards
Does praise for Guild Wars 2's soundtrack often go unsung in the gaming industry? That may well change this season thanks to an End...
Perfect Ten: Ranking 10 MMORPG map designs from worst to best
When I was a kid, I loved poring over maps in our family's atlas when we went on road trips. Getting a kind of...
NCsoft Q4 2022: Guild Wars 2 had a great 2022, Throne & Liberty is still launching by summer
There's good news and bad news in the Q4 2022 and FY 2022 financial report, and the bad news might help explain why NCsoft...
The Stream Team: Investigating Guild Wars 2’s Sky Pirates
Massively OP's MJ does things backwards. First she saw the end of Marjory Delaqua's story in Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons, and now...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 409: All aboard the Tyria train
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's new roadmap, Blizzard's financials, the latest Microsoft ABK drama, and earthquake relief, with adventures in LOTRO and GW2, plus mailbag topics on Gloria Victis and our failed MMO character concepts.
Guild Wars 2’s patch adds WvW incentives, cosmetics randomizer, and class balancing
As promised, Guild Wars 2's class balancing update has arrived, and depending on which elite spec play you will love, hate, or love and...
Guild Wars 2 appears to be dropping living world structure in favor of larger, more consistent updates
As promised, Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet has issued its developer blog on long-term plans, and it's not just prattle: The studio is planning...
Global Chat: Where does WoW Classic go from here?
As Wrath Classic gets closer to its preordained expiration date, Priest with a Cause is asking a question that a lot of people are:...
The Stream Team: Forging through Guild Wars 2’s first fractals
More mini Molten Furnace? Well, it gives achievements, so Massively OP's MJ says yes! When Guild Wars 2 originally took away Living World Season...
Final Fantasy XIV, Guild Wars 2 communities erupt over GShade malware mod drama
We're back in the thick of the games modding controversy this week, this time over what was meant to be a benign mod -...
Guild Wars 2 is revamping Mesmer and Firebrand mantras – again – in next week’s balance patch
Over the weekend, Guild Wars 2 balance lead Cal Cohen and associate game designer Roy Marks swung by the ArenaNet Twitch channel to show...
Global Chat: The seductive appeal of New World
Over a year since its launch, New World remains as rocky and controversial as ever. And while it has its critics, Amazon's MMO also...
NCsoft West loses CEO, lays off 20% of staff, says Throne & Liberty is not impacted
With NCsoft's Q4 financials looming in February, the company has apparently opted to follow Silicon Valley's destructive lead and add to the layoff pile...
The Stream Team: A Quiet Celebration in Guild Wars 2
After succeeding at melting the Molten Alliance, Massively OP's MJ gets to have A Quiet Celebration in Guild Wars 2 before moving on to...
Guild Wars 2 latest update buffs WvW PvP, adds jade bot terminals to Central Tyria
As promised, ArenaNet has pushed live Guild Wars 2's WvW update as of this afternoon.
PvE players with End of Dragons masteries will want to...
Choose My Adventure: Classic Guild Wars just makes me want to play Guild Wars 2
Well I suppose this was a foregone conclusion if people had been following along with this month's series of Choose My Adventure articles, but...
The Daily Grind: Do you feel guilty in MMOs when you’re not leveling?
You might think this an odd question coming from someone who plays a lot of sandboxes, but it's actually in spite of the guilt...
One Shots: Five easy steps to dragon enslavement
Step one: Find a dragon that's been shunned from the rest of its pack. Step two: Befriend the dragon with copious amounts of ripple-striped...
