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: 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...
Super Adventure Box returns to Guild Wars 2 next week!
Every time my 5-year-old sees the extra portal in Guild Wars 2's Rata Sum, I have to tell him it's for Super Adventure Box...
NCsoft rep says bringing City of Heroes toons to Master x Master was his ‘passion project’
We've been speaking with NCsoft West off the record this week, agitating for publicly printable answers on the Master X Master decision to implement City...
Meet City of Titans’ six heroic archetypes
Thanks to some website spring cleaning, City of Titans made a previously hidden article visible to the masses. This particular page outlines the upcoming...
Massively Overthinking: The City of Heroes Master X Master debacle
On Tuesday, NCsoft announced that it plans to introduce Statesman, from the long-sunsetted City of Heroes, as a playable character in its MOBA, Master...
Perfect Ten: Memories of an Anarchy Online noob
My initial foray into MMORPGs was, to put it nicely, quite ungraceful. I wasn't even aware that they were a thing until about the...
Ship of Heroes touts Unreal Engine 4 progress ahead of Kickstarter bid
Since our community has City of Heroes on the brain of late, let's recall that there are no less than five games inspired by...
Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #18-13
Last week we were off to a great start as we listened to the first batch of player-voted favorite MMO themes. As I said...
Fan creates Guild Wars 2 themed collectible card game
Ever been playing Guild Wars 2 and thought to yourself, wouldn't I rather be playing a card game? UK-based designer and developer Luke Dowding...
Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up WildStar
Writing about WildStar at this point feels weird.
Obviously, I just finished up playing the game for this feature for four weeks. It feels fresh...
Here’s why everyone’s pissed off about City of Heroes NPCs in NCsoft’s MOBA
Yesterday, NCsoft took the lid off a secret it's clearly been working on for a while: The company means to introduce a notorious and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 109: We are all Dragonborn
Justin and Bree discuss our PAX awards, Guild Wars 2, Wizard101, WoW, LOTRO, DDO, The Repopulation, EverQuest, Eternal Crusade, and Pathfinder, with mailbag questions on Funcom's mystery game and Landmark-like sandboxes.
