A major global studio based in South Korea, known in the west for games like WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and Aion, among many others.
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Peek at Guild Wars 2’s notes for next week’s balance patch to see whether you’ve been buffed or nerfed
Is it a proper balance patch if anyone walks away from the list of changes completely happy? ArenaNet is putting that question to the...
Massively Overthinking: How essential are hardcore gamers to an MMO’s health?
Last week, there was a positively eyebrow-raising thread on the Guild Wars 2 subreddit that tied neatly into the overall MMORPG meta discussion many...
Netmarble’s Q4 2019 were up YOY as the company raked in $1.6B for the year and pushes west
I'm gonna say a weird thing about Netmarble: It has the cleanest, most non-misleading investor report of any of the ones I've poked through...
Blade & Soul patches in the third specialization for the Assassin along with Lyn Assassins
Yes, you can now make a Lyn Assassin in Blade & Soul. If you have a burning need to do an in-game version of that...
The Soapbox: Why does it feel like I don’t have time for an MMO when I really do?
This guest Soapbox was commissioned through MassivelyOP's Patreon program and is authored by Steve "Sray" Blouin, a name our longtime commenters will surely recognize...
Guild Wars 2 eyes new achievement track for onboarding newbies
ArenaNet appears to be continuing its attempts to make Guild Wars 2 palatable to new players - both in terms of content in the...
Perfect Ten: Dead MMOs resurrected via rogue servers
Last December, the Massively OP 2019 Awards gave its "Best Trend" nod to the rise of rogue servers in the MMO genre. Preservation of...
Guild Wars 2 rehires a former programmer, drops PvP patch and season next week
You know what I don't love? Chronicling how more Guild Wars 2 devs have left the building. So I'm not going to do that....
Jack Emmert isn’t sure Daybreak will publish his next MMO, says DCUO is as big as it was four years ago
In January, Daybreak finally announced the fruits of its "realignment" that we'd been covering since last summer: It was splitting off new substudios for...
Flameseeker Chronicles: What Eye of the North means for Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga has so far been filled with plenty of nostalgic callbacks to the original Guild Wars’ Eye of the North...
The MOP Up: Runes of Magic helps you catch up
You might or might not be aware that last December, Runes of Magic rolled out new "catch up" servers that allow players to level...
Battle Bards Episode 162: Mystery abounds
Do you love a good mystery? A hidden secret? A riddle wrapped in an enigma and presented on a platter of puzzle? Then you’re...
Blade & Soul Korea announces ‘Frontier World’ alternate servers and continues its Force Master spec tease
Don't get me wrong, Blade & Soul players here in the west are getting some nice stuff with the next update, but the Korean...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG do you wish got a glow-up?
No matter how much we love mechanics, even our most cerebral writers and readers still admit to being graphics snobs. It's human: We like...
Failing to down Drakkar in Guild Wars 2 turns on free-for-all open PvP in the zone
All right, so it's a little bit harder to beat Drakkar at this point in Guild Wars 2. That's fine. You kind of expect to...
Guild Wars 2 will begin its first public Swiss tourney PvP test tomorrow
Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet has been murmuring the words "Swiss tournaments" for months now, all the way back to Mike Z's big post...
Perfect Ten: MMOs I’m optimistic about in 2020
I didn't actually plan to make this an annual feature or anything; I thought of it last year as a fun list, and then...
NCsoft Q4 2019: It was a rough quarter for MMORPGs, especially Guild Wars 2
NCsoft corporate had a solid financial quarter for the last three months of 2019, with increases in revenue quarter over quarter and year over...
Blade and Soul takes a closer look at the upcoming Way of the Phantom Assassin specialization
While by no means the deep dive that one might want for a new class spec, Blade and Soul has at least offered a...
Guild Wars 2 just put an end to cheese mechanics in the Drakkar encounter
It's patch day for Guild Wars 2, and that usually means one of two things: a tiny one-line bug tweak, or a major release....
