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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Blade & Soul launches a frozen event dungeon to keep you cool for the summer
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
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
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.
NCsoft is working on an Aion-related ‘next-generation’ MMORPG
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
It was a bit of an unplanned superhero MMORPG weekend, what with news from City of Titans, Ship of Heroes, and City of Heroes'...
Paragon Chat now features City of Heroes supergroup base building, complete with import
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
One of the great benefits of reading the wealth of MMO blogs out there is that you can touch base on a huge variety...
The Game Archaeologist: Digging up the history of City of Heroes
For the longest time in the early 2000s, MMORPGs scared me off. They looked too obtuse, too grindy, too ugly, and too unapproachable for...
Massively Overthinking: Random acts of MMORPG kindness
Last week, down in the comments of an innocuous post about gamers being nice in Fortnite, a couple of MOP commenters requested a column...
Aion EU ‘simplifies’ its gameplay with Patch 6.2 this September
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...
City of Heroes emulator SEGS cranks up powersets
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...
The Stream Team: Frivolity in Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds
Feel like racing as a dolyak? You can in Guild Wars 2's latest festival! Although Festival of the Four Winds isn't new (it has...
Perfect Ten: The best expansions for specific MMOs
Looking over the past two decades or so, MMORPGs have grown by leaps and bounds with regular releases, events, and (of course) expansion packs....
Blade & Soul’s False Idols update brings new raids, better subscription benefits
Once the servers come back up today, Blade & Soul is going to have a lot to offer its fans thanks to the new...
The Daily Grind: Rank the top three housing MMOs ever made
WildStar. RIFT. EverQuest II.
If I had to choose three MMORPGs that contained the best housing systems and then rank them, that list up there...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 179: MMO parenting fails
Justin and Bree discuss Star Wars Galaxies Legends, World of Warcraft, Elite Dangerous, LOTRO's Weatherstock, Trion's layoffs, No Man's Sky's multiplayer, DDO, and Wizard 101 updates, with mailbag entries on how to start an MMO blog and spooky stuff in Guild Wars 2.
Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds has launched after four years asleep
Guild Wars 2 is going old school today with the return of the Festival of the Four Winds, a festival players haven't seen in...
One Shots: Party animals
Apologies for the disruption in the normal One Shots schedule over the past couple of weeks, but we're back and freakishly abnormal! Everyone behave...
The Game Archaeologist: Kesmai’s Air Warrior and Legends of Kesmai
Most studios would be overjoyed to have pioneered one significant advancement in video game history, but then again, most studios aren't Kesmai. While it's...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite non-awful gaming subreddit?
I want to flip the tables on the whole toxicity/Reddit thing a bit. Earlier this week, we talked about some of the problems Reddit...