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The Stream Team: Into The Bitter Cold of Guild Wars 2 with Twitch drops (and no spoilers!)
Want to watch some Guild Wars 2 for the Twitch drops but don't want any story spoilers of the new content until you can...
The MOP Up: Elder Scrolls Online lays out its March plans
Elder Scrolls Online published its schedule for March activities, which includes a set of PvP-focused login rewards, new endeavors, a Deathmatch weekend, the Jester's...
The Stream Team: Egg-xamining the Guild Wars 2 dragon egg
First she was teased with the idea of a circus, then Massively OP's MJ discovered that there actually was a circus on the volcano...
The Stream Team: A Guild Wars 2 Trip to the Circus
There are times when a quest or story chapter name taken out of context can really lead one's imagination in a very different direction....
The Stream Team: The joys of Rising Flames in Guild Wars 2
What's the best way to get Massively OP's MJ pumped for a story chapter in Guild Wars 2? Name it Rising Flames! Having just...
Massively Overthinking: Has an MMO cadence switch-up ever actually worked out for the best?
When I was going through our historical awards for the debrief earlier this month, I had a little chuckle looking at the awards for...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs with creative idea hooks
There's so much blatant -- and lazy! -- copying in the world of entertainment and arts that anything novel is to be cherished. I've...
The Stream Team: Journey into the Bloodstone Maw in Guild Wars 2
Having just finished the mastery that was blocking her story progress, Massively OP's MJ is now able to continue Guild Wars 2's Living World...
The Stream Team: Investigating Guild Wars 2’s Bloodstone Fen
After Eir's memorial, Massively OP's MJ boarded an airship... like anyone thought that was a good idea! After all, airship is synonymous with explosion...
The Stream Team: Living the Guild Wars 2 Season 3 life
With holiday events over, Massively OP's MJ can return her focus to finishing up the Guild Wars 2 story. And to do that, she...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Vague Patch Notes: Going solo isn’t a problem in MMORPGs
So I'm wrapping up a month of talking about how MMORPGs are by necessity social games. These are games in which you need other...
Flameseeker Chronicles: How to gear up in Guild Wars 2 in 2024 – without breaking the bank
Gearing in Guild Wars 2 is simultaneously really nice and also very frustrating. It's nice because there is no uber tier of stats locked...
Here’s how the ‘cellular automata simulation’ in Raph Koster’s new sandbox MMORPG Stars Reach works
In the wake of the announcement of Stars Reach, Playable Worlds' Raph Koster has been making the rounds of Reddit and the gaming blogosphere...
Sandbox MMORPG Pax Dei opens preorders for its newly announced June 18 early access
Is it too soon for Pax Dei to be hitting early access? We're about to find out, as Mainframe Industries announced this morning that...
Tamriel Infinium: The history of Elder Scrolls games (before and after Elder Scrolls Online)
There's nothing quite like that feeling when you first dip your toes into a particular game only to discover that it's part of a...
Guild Wars 2 quietly kicks off its Return to Living World S1 event for the next week
Blink and you'll miss it, as ArenaNet isn't widely promoting it apart from a calendar note and mention on social media: Guild Wars 2...
Guild Wars 2 shares patch notes for its next balance update, prepares the return of Living World Season 1
It's both a look to the future and a blast from the past for Guild Wars 2 players, as ArenaNet has posted the initial...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO resolutions for 2024
Stop right there. I know you're about to object and say that you don't do resolutions, let alone MMO resolutions. That's fine. A lot...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions
We've been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the...
