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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The Daily Grind: What MMO ability makes you feel truly powerful?
A couple of months ago, I received a legendary in World of Warcraft that allowed me to shoot out this gigantic AoE fireball every 90...
City of Heroes-inspired MMORPG Ship of Heroes has canceled its Kickstarter bid
The team behind Ship of Heroes has just announced that it's canceling its Kickstarter. Since the crowdfund's launch on April 4th, it had raised only $35,138...
Blade and Soul’s next update includes a training room and skill revamp
Blade and Soul's next update may be a literal game-changer, as the team is overhauling the skill system to make it more accessible and...
Global Chat: The fallout over Secret World Legends
The fallout over The Secret World's reboot into Secret World Legends has spread far and wide over the MMO blogging community, with many expressing...
ESL Gaming is shutting down Guild Wars 2’s e-sports section
ESL Gaming announced this afternoon that following two last e-sports cups next week, its Guild Wars 2 division will close.
"It's the end of an...
Master x Master closed beta begins April 6; signups are open now
D'awwww, look at that image of City of Heroes' Statesman, scowling down upon all the kids flocking to the Master X Master beta signup...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 111: Secret World’s Destiny
Justin and Bree discuss The Secret World, City of Heroes vs. MxM, Paragon Chat, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2 SAB, April Fools' Day, WoW 7.2, Destiny 2, and Club Penguin, with reader mail on Funcom and MMO guilds.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s Bastion of the Penitent raid lore
As promised, I'm making a return to the lore found within Guild Wars 2's newest raid Bastion of the Penitent now that we've summarised the...
City of Heroes-inspired Ship of Heroes’ $400,000 Kickstarter is live
Ship of Heroes has formally launched its Kickstarter today as promised, with a $400,000 ask.
The game is an Unreal 4 engine, full-scale MMORPG heavily...
Aion’s Book of Monsters is about to become your favorite bedtime story
With Patch 5.3 living large on Aion's servers, NCsoft is now turning its attention in North America to the upcoming release of Patch 5.4....
SuperData examines gambling practices across the online gaming industry
Gambling in video games has been a huge topic for devoted MMORPG players over the last year or so, as core MMOs like Guild...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the worst for ‘trash pulls’?
A week or two ago, Blizzard Watch had a post up polling its readers about which trash pulls in WoW they hated the most....
WildStar just lost its lead combat designer
This is not an April Fools' Day joke: WildStar's Lead Combat Designer just announced on Twitter that he has left Carbine Studios.
https://twitter.com/Steven_Engle/status/847950602784997376
"I'll give everyone...
Super Adventure Box is now live in Guild Wars 2
Super Adventure Box has returned to Guild Wars 2 today! We've previously reported that there is no World 3 this round, but there is...
Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #12-7
It's starting to get serious now.
As we well know, people are highly opinionated about everything, but when it comes to music, there seems to...
Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box begins tomorrow… with red weapons, without World 3
If you were holding out hope that this year's edition of Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box would come with loads of new content......
SuperData February 2017: World of Tanks perks up, Hearthstone is sinking
Happy SuperData day! That's the monthly holiday when we pore over the market analysis report, freak out over something doing well, freak over something...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most stable MMORPG (besides WoW) right now?
Massively OP reader Gail made an interesting observation in one of the City of Heroes Master x Master drama threads about what she called "corn...
The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on depictions of animal cruelty in MMORPGs?
Last week, when Guild Wars 2 revealed its latest minipet, there was a minor squabble on the forums as some players objected to it....
The MOP Up: ARK’s console editions get a hair-do (March 26, 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...
