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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...
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...
The Daily Grind: Have you tried anything new in MMOs since January 1?
Not to be too mean to January, but it always feels like a month that's a hangover from the holiday excesses of the last...
Guild Wars 2 previews the changes coming to WvW with the update on January 31
Despite your continued practice of wearing a t-shirt in Guild Wars 2 proclaiming you as "CHIEF DOLYAK DESTROYER STILL THE BEST SINCE 2013" and...
Guild Wars 2 will allow jade bots to be piloted outside of Cantha next week
Have you unlocked the mastery track for the jade bot in Guild Wars 2 but were a little sad that the tiny green friend...
Vague Patch Notes: Floaty, samey, and janky – a treasury of MMO terms for bad combat
Any time you bring up The Secret World or Secret World Legends's bland, floaty combat, at least one person is going to chime in...
Massively Overthinking: What will be your three most-played MMOs in 2023?
Last week in Massively Overthinking, we discussed our three most-played MMOs of 2022 - and whether we'd guessed right at the top of that...
Guild Wars 2 prepares previews of balance changes and WvW quality-of-life ahead of its 2023 roadmap
There are likely a fair number of Guild Wars 2 players at the edges of their seats for the MMORPG's 2023 content roadmap. Unfortunately,...
The Stream Team: Backseat streaming acquires secondary professions in Guild Wars
In an era of armchair warriors, we bring you Backseat Streamers! Here, Massively OP’s Chris and MJ get to take a backseat and watch...
Perfect Ten: Tutorial topics every MMO really needs to cover
Tutorials are important in MMOs. No MMO has a great one, unfortunately. I don't just mean in the cases where returning players could use...
The Stream Team: Meeting the Molten Alliance in Guild Wars 2
MMORPGs are notorious for having folks run around helter skelter. (That and killing rats!) And that's exactly what Massively OP's MJ needs to do...
Massively Overthinking: What were your three most-played MMOs in 2022?
Last year, we did a piece on what we expected our top three MMOs of 2022 to be. We'll do that again next week,...
The Stream Team: Starting Guild Wars 2’s Living World Season 1 for the first time
Now that Massively OP's MJ has finally completed Guild Wars 2's personal story, she's ready to dive into Living World Season 1. It's a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 405: Give me throne or give me liberty
Justin and Bree discuss Throne & Liberty, Skull & Bones' delay, roadmaps for the EverQuest MMOs, and John Smedley's departure from Amazon, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on the Wizards of the Coast D&D mess and reimagining alts in MMOs.
One Shots: Looking forward to a rainy day
Is there anything as agonizingly tantalizing as receiving a gift that's for a very specific situation? You can't wait to use it, but it...
The Stream Team: Celebrating the Year of the Bunny in Guild Wars 2
It takes 12 long years to come around, but Massively OP's MJ finally gets to celebrate the year of the bunny! And she'll be...
End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2023
Years ago, I did the first version of this yearly column in a one-off format in the middle of the year just because I...
