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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.

Global Chat: Is it worth your time to alpha test MMOs?

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Taugrim raises a very interesting question this week on his blog. Namely, is it really worth your time to alpha test MMOs these days?...

Massively Overthinking: Should MMORPGs incentivize exploration – and how?

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Our Daily Grind on exploration last week sparked an intriguing follow-up from MOP reader Miol. "When asking about sightseeing and exploration in MMORPGs, you also...
Right round.

Netmarble’s earning report shows more revenue from North American markets than Korea

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Netmarble has released its earnings report for the most recent quarter, which means that if you love looking through investment reports for various companies,...

Guild Wars 2 has all the activities going on right now

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Perhaps to distract MMO players from next week's Battle for Tyria (or whatever) expansion, Guild Wars 2 is really cranking out all sorts of...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO features that deserve widespread adaptation

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You know what gets me excited about upcoming MMOs? It's certainly not the list of expected systems and features that have since become standard...

The MOP Up: PlanetSide 2 throws a summer rager (August 5, 2018)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

The Daily Grind: When was the last time you went sightseeing in an MMORPG?

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Are you into stopping and smelling the flowers, literally or figuratively? I started thinking a bit about this thanks to a tweet ZeniMax sent out...

The Stream Team: Poking into City of Heroes bases thanks to Paragon Chat

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You may not be able to return home to City of Heroes, but you can return to your home in CoH thanks to the...

Lineage II is launching Etina’s Fate update on August 22, retooling the exp grind curve

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Lineage II! The original! Well, the original sequel. It's getting an update! In three weeks! "The next major update for Lineage II and the conclusive...
Play it cool, boy, real cool.

Blade & Soul launches a frozen event dungeon to keep you cool for the summer

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If you want to stay cool in Blade and Soul for the summer, you're going to have to get cool. The summer event that's...

Global Chat: The ‘We Don’t Play World of Warcraft’ Club

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What do you do when you don't play World of Warcraft but everyone else all around you does and won't stop talking about it...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 180: Superstoked for heroic MMOs

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Justin and Bree discuss the influence of City of Heroes (Paragon Chat, SEGS, Valiance Online, Ship of Heroes, and City of Titans), plus WoW, No Man's Sky, SWGemu, Camelot Unchained, STO, CCP's new MMO, and Rend, with a mailbag entry on comments negativity.
Wings.

NCsoft is working on an Aion-related ‘next-generation’ MMORPG

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No matter what your feelings may be toward NCsoft, it is great to see that the developer and publisher continues to greenlight MMORPGs instead...

Ship of Heroes recaps its July progress, including work on characters, Unreal, and TrueSKY

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It was a bit of an unplanned superhero MMORPG weekend, what with news from City of Titans, Ship of Heroes, and City of Heroes'...
Cool times.

Paragon Chat now features City of Heroes supergroup base building, complete with import

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If you're wondering what that sound is echoing over the horizon, it's just every City of Heroes fan freaking out about the return of...

Global Chat: Getting a handle on Legends of Aria

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One of the great benefits of reading the wealth of MMO blogs out there is that you can touch base on a huge variety...
City again.

The Game Archaeologist: Digging up the history of City of Heroes

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For the longest time in the early 2000s, MMORPGs scared me off. They looked too obtuse, too grindy, too ugly, and too unapproachable for...
when yo crush read yo note that say lemme smash

Massively Overthinking: Random acts of MMORPG kindness

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Last week, down in the comments of an innocuous post about gamers being nice in Fortnite, a couple of MOP commenters requested a column...
For instance, six instances.

Aion EU ‘simplifies’ its gameplay with Patch 6.2 this September

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With server merges and transfers out of the way for Europe's version of Aion, the dev team is able to turn its attention forward...
Also, let's just put this out there, how about more robots?

City of Heroes emulator SEGS cranks up powersets

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The Super Entity Game Server (SEGS) continues to push forward with its version to bring a full-featured open source emulator of City of Heroes...

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