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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Battle Bards Episode 195: In the mountains
Attempting to summit the very best of MMO music, the Battle Bards head up, up, up into the mountains with this episode! What musical...
Blade & Soul: Revolution adds the Blade Dancer, the Blackram Supply Chain, and a new story act
Do you like the Blade Dancer in Blade & Soul but hate its relative lack of presence in a mobile version of the game?...
Massively Overthinking: Is ‘layering’ tech actually MMO community poison?
MOP reader ACuriousTanuki left a brilliant comment on a Palia article earlier this month that I thought deserved more discussion. Tanuki wondered about how...
Blade & Soul kicks off new challenges and content with the Winds of Summer update
It's summer time in Blade & Soul (also in the real world), and that means it's time for a challenge. Don't ask how the...
Interview: Neverwinter’s lead designer on the level squish and why the new cap will (probably) be 20 forever
Neverwinter is about to embark on a major retooling of its entire leveling curve, resetting level 80 players to a new hard cap of...
Desert Oasis: Black Desert’s Atoraxxian dungeon is a good idea, but will it last?
Burger and Fries, Mario and Luigi, Garfunkel and Oates. Are there any other iconic pairs? Oh yeah! RPGs and dungeons. Be it the sprawling...
Character creation and name reservation for Aion Classic begins today
Quickly! Get home and get ready for Aion Classic! There's no time to explain why! Oh... wait, it turns out that's actually our job,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 326: Lost Ark is finally found
Justin and Bree discuss E3 2021, Book of Travels, Elder Scrolls Online, Fallout 76, Diablo II Resurrected, Sea of Thieves, Riders Republic, Transformers Heavy Metal, Albion Online, Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis, Lost Ark, Aion Classic, and LOTRO, with adventures in Sims 4, WoW Classic, SWG Legends, Crowfall, and Albion, plus a mailbag topic on difficulty walls in MMOs.
Guild Wars 2 Seeds of Truth and Point of No Return are freely claimable ahead of Dragon Bash next week
This week's Guild Wars 2 freebies are up for grabs: Everyone can log in and snag two season two living world episodes, Seeds of...
The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2 organizes new player tips thread
If you're getting into Guild Wars 2 for the first time or can actually admit that you don't know everything about the game, there's...
MOP’s quick and dirty guide to finding the perfect MMORPG for your tastes
Probably one of the most commonly asked questions both here on Massively OP and in various MMORPG discussions everywhere else too is simply, "What...
Massively Overthinking: Abysmal MMO launch experiences
Elite Dangerous' Odyssey launch has been a stark reminder to me that not all launches and launch experiences are the same. To hear some...
The 2021 Nexon Developers Conference is now public, and it includes a Guild Wars 2 audio panel
As promised, Nexon has kicked off the Nexon Developers Conference this week, with nearly 50 dev-led sessions on "data analysis, programing, visual art and...
Aion Classic is really happening in the west, and it’s launching in ‘the Americas’ on June 23
We've been covering NCsoft's release of Aion Classic overseas and the teases and hints that it's been leveling at the western playerbase for a...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO prisons where you can do the time of your life
Chillin' in the clink. Spending time in stony lonesome. Thrown into the slammer. Checking in to the big house. Doing (perfect) 10 to life...
The Daily Grind: What convinces you that an MMO ‘leak’ is the real deal?
So let's talk about the alleged Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons "leak" that's been floating around Reddit the last few days. An anonymous leaker...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 325: The bards sing of Palia
Justin, Carlo, and Bree discuss Elyon, Swords of Legends Online, WoW Classic Burning Crusade, Elder Scrolls Online Blackwood, Aion Classic, Crowfall, Trove, Neverwinter, and Palia, with a mailbag topic on spiritual successors and Guild Wars vs. Guild Wars 2.
Guild Wars 2’s Echoes of the Past and Tangled Paths are free to unlock this week
All summer long, ArenaNet is dropping old episodes of Guild Wars 2's living story for free for folks who missed them many years ago. Thus...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Three better ways Guild Wars 2 could have wrapped up The Icebrood Saga
It’s easy to be critical of a game when it lets us down. In some ways, it’s equally easy to fall into the trap...
The Daily Grind: Do you roll MMO alts that you never actually level?
Roger at Contains Moderate Peril penned a fun piece a while back about the lost alts - the alts that get left behind, the...
