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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.

Guild Wars 2’s build and equipment templates are coming on October 29

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Earlier this year when ArenaNet was doing damage control following the layoffs, one of the most exciting pieces of news about the future of...
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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs do you keep installed long-term, even when you’re not playing them?

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I tend to be the kind of person who keeps MMOs and other video games installed a long time, especially if I've gone to...

Runes of Magic is now fully integrated into Gameforge’s website

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Runes of Magic has now been completely eaten and digested enfolded into the Gameforge website as of today, giving the MMORPG a new home...

The MOP Up: Warframe’s community designs stunning fashion

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One really neat aspect of the ultra-popular Warframe is that Digital Extremes invites artistic community members to design cosmetics for the game. The best...
Gonna go fight a boss.

Global Chat: Diving deep into Project Gorgon

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While you're over there playing the same-old, same-old MMO, do you know who is having a spectacular time discovering one of the most original...

One Shots: An oldie but a goodie

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Last week's screenshot challenge to share pictures of older MMOs that still check out (visually, I mean) resulted in a small avalanche of Lord...

Eternal Magic has been accused of ripping off Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft, and SMITE

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It's no secret that Eternal Magic, the now-in-beta PvP MMO from Chinese developer Duoyi, got off to a bad start with the community earlier...

Guild Wars 2’s next major class balance patch is dropping October 1

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Forget your pumpkin spice lattes, Tyrians, because you will soon be drinking deep from the cup of a balance patch that is due to...

The Daily Grind: If you could bring back an MMO for a single day, what would you do in it?

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Here's the good news: You've been handed a device that has the power to resurrect a sunsetted MMORPG and activate servers for you and...

City of Heroes’ Homecoming announces Issue 26 Page 3, Halloween content, and collab with other rogue servers

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City of Heroes' Homecoming servers, rogue or not, are pushing forward into legitimacy. As we've been covering, the servers, which have been publicly outed...
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Vague Patch Notes: Crime and punishment and intent in MMOs

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Last week, we saw Blizzard explain its philosophy behind why some World of Warcraft bugs in which players got to get more stuff than...

Interview: ArcheAge Unchained’s Merv Lee Kwai on housing, RMT, and the future of the game

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The announcement of ArcheAge Unchained and its buy-to-play, no-pay-to-win ruleset has been one of the big surprises of the season for the five-year-old MMORPG...

Massively Overthinking: MMOs, challenge, and flow

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A couple of weeks ago, MMO developer Mark Kern tweeted a controversial claim about how challenge and interactivity is the point of games (and...

The Stream Team: MOP experiences Guild Wars 2’s new prologue, Bound by Blood

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There is more content ready to be explored in Guild Wars 2, and Massively OP is up to the challenge! How dangerous could a...
We got it back, after all.

City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers are now blocking copyright-infringing characters

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Players on the City of Heroes Homecoming servers enjoyed a privilege they were never afforded during the game's pre-shutdown run time: While NCsoft was draconian...

The Daily Grind: What constitutes a ‘classic’ MMO to you?

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Earlier this week, a job posting on Blizzard's career site made it clear that the company considers Diablo III one of its "classic" games....
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 239: Astellia ascending

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Justin and Bree discuss Astellia, Guild Wars 2, ArcheAge Unchained, WoW, LOTRO, PlanetSide Arena, and Project Gorgon, with a mailbag topic on making gaming more productive (or not).

The Stream Team: Crashing Aion’s 10th anniversary party flea market

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Who is a decade old now? Aion is! And Massively OP's MJ is unfurling her wings and heading in to crash the party... er,...
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Fight or Kite: Guild Wars 2 PvP – where good intentions and stubbornness meet

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Earlier this month, Guild Wars 2 Game Director Mike Zadorojny had an interview with PCGamesN in which he discussed a number of items - most...

The Daily Grind: Has a class spec or overhaul ever saved an MMO character for you?

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Thieves and rogues and backstabby stealthy types don't usually do much for me in MMORPGs. Oh sure, I play a stealth thief in literally...

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