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Not So Massively: Lost Ark is junk food gaming (in a good way)
Having originally played the alpha and the beta, I thought my plan for Lost Ark would be to play other things for the first...
The Daily Grind: Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons launches today – are you coming to Cantha?
After years and years of joking about and begging for Cantha, Guild Wars 2 players are finally getting it with the launch of End...
The Stream Team: Endgame and island adventures in Lost Ark
When MOP's Chris last was streaming Lost Ark, he was just making his initial steps into the MMOARPG. Now, he's made it to the...
One Shots: So far from the jungle right now
Jared the Tiger grew up in the lush jungles of Tyria -- up to the day that he stepped into that trapped and found...
Global Chat: How is the actual story of SWTOR’s Legacy of the Sith?
To kick off this week's parade of MMO essays by bloggers in the virtual trenches, SWTOR site Going Commando gave us an honest review...
The Daily Grind: Are you looking for reasons to *not* play MMOs?
Earlier this week, I was chatting with MOP's Chris about Conan Chop Chop when he mentioned that the game is surprisingly intense. "It will...
Massively Overthinking: Is free-to-play as bad as we thought it’d be a decade ago?
It's 2022 and we're about to talk about free-to-play like it's 2012! Back then, the conversation was all about which MMORPG would fall to free-to-play...
Lost Ark brings back Twitch drops for the weekend, addresses gold seller spam
If you missed out on Lost Ark's Twitch drops promo during the first chaotic week of the game, fear not: Amazon is bringing it...
Diablo Immortal explains everything that was learned and changed thanks to closed beta feedback
You may not believe that Blizzard is listening to player feedback on the regular, especially not when it comes to Diablo Immortal in general (we...
Lost Ark says it’s working to fix European servers’ ongoing queue and matchmaking woes
The experience of central EU players of Lost Ark has been an absolute mess. As we've been reporting, massive player counts in the region...
The MOP Up: Uncharted Waters Online decodes the secrets of human heritage
Uncharted Waters Online's "greatest challenge yet" arrived last week with its Olympia patch. This update added a new legacy theme to decode, a fight...
One Shots: Stepping back from the brink
A little while ago, I read how some visitors to the Grand Canyon have actually fallen in and perished because they would get a...
Into the Super-Verse: The joy of travel powers in superhero MMOs
I lived for level 14. Before level 14 was torture -- after was bliss.
I speak, of course, of City of Heroes "back in the...
Dark Nemesis Infinite Quest is an upcoming hack-and-slash mobile MMORPG now open for pre-registration
Yes, we have another mobile MMORPG on the horizon. This one is a hack-and-slash title from Chinese developer Nuverse called Dark Nemesis: Infinite Quest,...
Path of Exile fans are grumbling over the mystifying and expensive new Kirac battlepass
Whenever we get tips that essentially tell us we might want to take a peek into a game's subreddit, I know it's my turn...
Massively Overthinking: Lost Ark and its place in the MMORPG genre
We've all been watching Lost Ark a very long time; I remember writing an article about it way back in 2014 because I was...
Lost Ark patches in the groundwork for new server cluster Europe West [Update: West is live now!]
Amazon's Lost Ark patch overnight wasn't a huge one: It's largely a list of bug fixes with dyes, store connection, in-game schedules, DX11, chat,...
Jukebox Heroes: Highlights from Lost Ark’s soundtrack
It's been a shameful while since I last delivered a Jukebox Heroes column to you, but what better occasion is there for a revival...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 360: The flood of the Lost Ark
Justin and Bree discuss Lost Ark, Conan Chop Chop, Lord of the Rings IP, WoW 9.2, and TitanReach, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, and Lost Ark, plus a mailbag topic on zones we just can't stand.
Why I Play: Examining why Lost Ark has me so hooked
Lost Ark has hooked me pretty deeply. I’m just over 30 levels and five or so days into the game right now, which sometimes...
