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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One Shots: Day one of the conquest
There's nothing like that heady feel of stepping out into the game world for the first time, taking in the sights of the newbie...
Massively Overthinking: Solving the MMO gear obsolescence problem
Last weekend, Amazon told players in a New World Discord Q&A that the expansion still on the way will essentially nullify existing gear to...
Jack Emmert’s NetEase-owned studio rebrands as Jackalyptic Games, teases Warhammer 40K title
The studio is named Jackalyptic Games, it's owned by Netease, and it's headed by Jack Emmert. You might think that you wouldn't want to...
Aion Classic is granting sub benefits to North American players for a whole month
Aion Classic is having a bit of a moment this spring. It finally launched for European players, and then the North American branch launched...
Amazon appears to confirm Throne & Liberty will be a free-to-play title when it launches in the west
With Throne & Liberty delayed for the zillionth time and yet another round of betas still on the way, would-be players have had a...
The Stream Team: Investigating Fort Salma for Mordremoth’s mayhem in Guild Wars 2
While investigating Scarlet's insanity... er, work with the ley lines, Massively OP's MJ discovered that Mordremoth appears to be targeting waypoints on the Asuran...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 422: Two Lord of the Rings MMOs to rule them all
Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's new LOTR MMO (again), LOTRO's King's Gondor, WoW's Fractured in Time, official WoW Classic hardcore, Diablo IV, FFXIV, and financials for NCsoft, Square, and Pearl Abyss, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, and SWG Legends.
Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons’ second chapter, What Lies Within, launches May 23
Guild Wars 2's next living story chapter is officially launching a week from today on May 23rd. It's called What Lies Within and will...
City of Heroes Rebirth rogue server marks four years with XP buffs, a badge, and a Nemesis invasion
Another of the rogue servers for City of Heroes has made it to a big milestone: a fourth year of operation. That rogue server...
One Shots: Who left the gas stove on?
So. This is awkward. I know everyone has an excuse why you were definitely not messing around with the giant's gas stove in Blade...
Design Mockument: Let’s bring back WildStar, only good this time
The other night, a couple of us were talking in work chat about missing WildStar. I also miss WildStar... or more accurately, I miss...
NCsoft’s Aion Classic launches the Revenant class and new Telos zone
Aion Classic's big news this spring has until now been focused on the launch of Classic in Europe under the Gameforge sigil, but this...
NCsoft Q1 2023: NCsoft confirms Throne & Liberty’s delay to back half of 2023
NCsoft's Q1 2023 financials have arrived, and it wasn't the best quarter for the Korean gaming giant, which saw both mobile and PC games...
The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2’s Entanglements
In Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 2, MassivelyOP's MJ has been learning more about her former foe, Scarlet, as well as finding more...
Flameseeker Chronicles: What we learned (and didn’t) from Guild Wars 2’s spring 2023 roadmap
The most nerve-wracking thing about being an MMORPG player is uncertainty. MMO players don't like change, and when a change is teased, many of...
Eden Eternal has relaunched with a side order of NFTs and a delay on Steam
It's re-launch day for Eden Eternal, and if you haven't been following along, well sit back because we're about to do a recap, and...
The Soapbox: MMO housing is so much more than a frivolous feature
When The Sims launched in 2000, what seemed like a dull and laughable concept on paper proved to be one of the most compelling...
The Stream Team: Going to town for the Master of Peace in Guild Wars 2
Starting Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 2, investigating the Zephyrite presence in Dry top included a jumping puzzle achievement of doom, one that...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 420: The New, Mad World of Warcraft
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's content cadence, the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard buyout, Blizzard's messy financials, WoW's 10.1 patch, the end of forums for New World and Lost Ark, the death of a whole class in MapleStory, the messy launch of Mad World, and the surprise return of Fractured, plus adventures in LOTRO and Star Trek Online.
Guild Wars 2’s balance patch brings bugs, buffs, and boundaries on gambling
As promised, the next spring balance patch is upon Guild Wars 2 today, although it's apparently been a bit of a technical trainwreck thus...
