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A major global studio based in South Korea, known in the west for games like WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and Aion, among many others.

Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: MMO Expansion of the Year

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MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for MMO Expansion of the Year, which was awarded to Final Fantasy XIV's Shadowbringers...

The MOP Up: Flyff Classic is in the works

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If you are one of the millions of die-hard Flyff Online fans who pine of the days of yore, then here's a great Christmas...

MOP Awards: Best MMO Player Screenshots

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Every Friday morning after breakfast, I crack open the comments to the previous week's One Shots column and pick the most eye-catching and interesting...

The Game Archaeologist: Seven ways EverQuest reshaped MMO history

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To many veteran MMO players, the opening horns of EverQuest's score are enough to trigger vivid memories, violent hallucinations, and an unstoppable desire to...

Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Music of 2020

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MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Music of 2020, which last year wasn't directly awarded; instead, we...

End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2020

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With so many delays, it's a wonder that anything released this year at all! And while new patches and expansions trickled rather than flowed...

The Daily Grind: What MMO abilities make you feel like a rock star?

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I'll admit that there's a shade of vanity that prompts me to bust out my best and most noticeable skills whenever I'm in an...

The Stream Team: Jumping for joy (and pain) in Guild Wars 2’s Wintersday

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'Tis the season of joy in Guild Wars 2. And with the Wintersday jumping puzzle, 'tis also the season of pain -- this is...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 302: Your MMO mail, our MMO opinions

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Justin and Bree tackle an all-mailbag show, with topics including gaming music and writing mainstream awards, MMO exploration, crafting and EVE Online, vanilla Guild Wars 2, the "one MMO" gamer, MMOs that make you want to play other MMOs, WoW transmog, Raph Koster's brain, and Shadowbane.

The Daily Grind: What MMO has the brightest future right now heading into 2021?

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A Massively Overthinking roundtable about MMOs with bright future that we did a few years ago was so popular that we decided to make...

Guild Wars 2 confirms its next Icebrood Saga chapter title and hides interesting Cantha tidbits

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ArenaNet is going to be taking a little holiday break but not before it talks up a variety of future goodies for Guild Wars...
Whee or something.

Battle Bards Episode 183: Theme parks

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This episode is your ticket to the greatest amusement park experience known to gamers! With cotton candy and ride tickets in hand, the Battle...

The MOP Up: Snake, Braddock, and Rambo charge onto World of Tanks Console

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World of Tanks' console edition is getting all '80s happy with the launch of season 3 this month. Wargaming announced that players can obtain...

Into the Super-verse: A heroic year of superhero MMO development

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As we get ready to tuck 2020 into the annals of history and venture into the wilds of 2021, it's a good time for...

One Shots: Memories in crystal

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We don't just take screenshots of MMOs to impress each other but to cement memories that would otherwise fade away to the ravages of...

Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Worst MMO Business Model

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MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Worst MMO Business Model, which was awarded jointly to Star Citizen and Fallout...

Asheron’s Call 2 died 17 years ago, then came back, then died again, and here we are

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On December 30th, 2005, Asheron's Call 2 was shut down - the first time. That was 15 years ago. And then, without warning, seven...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2021

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So... 2020 didn't go exactly as anyone planned. Our predictions for this past year were pretty janked up by that whole pandemic thing and...

Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Biggest MMO Surprise of 2020

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MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Surprise of 2020, which was awarded to the revival of City...

Grim and glad tidings spread across Blade and Soul

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Do you like your holiday season dour or delightful? If you venture into Blade and Soul this week, you can have both! This week's Grim...

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