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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WildStar patches in Primetime and preps November booster events
The most recent patch for WildStar is Primetime, and it is indeed all about making it the time for Prime. The Genetic Archives raid...
Blade & Soul’s European maintenance is migrating servers to improve future maintenance
Good news, European Blade & Soul fans! Your server maintenance today is going to take twice as long as the North American server maintenance!...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs where you can live out your giant robot fantasies
Two years ago, NCsoft dealt a harsh blow to a certain subset of gaming fans when it canned the development of Project HON. This...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 142: The state of the sci-fi MMO genre
Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR, Destiny 2, RIFT, CCP's studio closures, Warframe, and Star Citizen's CitizenCon, with tidbits on Guild Wars 2, Trove, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, WoW, and BlizzCon, and a mailbag question on the future of traditional MMORPGs.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking Act II of Guild War’s 2’s Path of Fire story
In the last edition of Flameseeker Chronicles, I discussed the opening sections of Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire's story while providing you with a brief...
Ship of Heroes reveals its Dark Magic Blast powerset just in time for Halloween
If you're missing the Halloween flair of City of Heroes today as I am, maybe point your eyeballs at Ship of Heroes instead. This...
The MOP Up: Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet announced (October 29, 2017)
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...
One Shots: Mummies making tracks
Let me tell you, I'm not playing RIFT right now but still I am so very tempted to log on and purchase that squirrel...
PSA: WildStar is giving out free level 50 characters in preparation for next week’s raid
Time to skip over all of that meaty, pesky leveling content and enjoy an express pass to the endgame in WildStar... if that is...
Choose My Adventure: Not quite farewell to Guild Wars 2
I am not done with Guild Wars 2.
This may or may not come as a surprise to people, but it's still the case regardless....
Guild Wars 2 is releasing a vinyl soundtrack for Path of Fire and planning Extra Life shenanigans
You hipsters still have your vintage record players, right? I mean, how else are you going to enjoy Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire's...
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons MMO characters seem truly insane
We all like making the occasional observation about the weirdness inherent in video games, but most of us also recognize that what we're really...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 141: Mouse invasions and elf butts
Justin and Bree discuss MMORPG Halloween, Trove, World of Warcraft, EverQuest II, DDO, Life is Feudal, Bless, Destiny 2, and Project Gorgon, with a mailbag question on how and whether we should all be supporting struggling MMOs.
MMO blogger dives into the theoretical math behind lockboxes
MMO blogger Serrenity, whom many of you will recognize from his clever comments here on MOP too, has a compelling blog post on his...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite and least favorite type of MMO daily?
Over the weekend, Guild Wars 2 players on Reddit opened up a discussion about dailies in the game that spoke to me. I used to...
The Stream Team: Racing through Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King
Massively OP's MJ loved Halloween events before, but Guild Wars 2 is giving her reason to love them more! The game has added mount...
Paragon Chat to host City of Heroes shutdown vigil on November 30
Almost five years ago, the City of Heroes servers shut down for the last time, as thousands of online superheroes (and supervillains!) were unmoored...
The Daily Grind: How many of you are still playing Guild Wars 2?
As I type this, Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion has been out exactly a month. At the time, I remember making fun...
The MOP Up: Warface celebrates its birthday in Chernobyl (October 22, 2017)
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: Which MMO rules at Halloween events?
I'm almost never happier in MMORPGs than when October rolls around. There's so much moodiness and festivities revolving around Halloween, thanks to developers' undying...
