Week in Review: Charrmed, I'm sure

by Brianna Royce on Apr 24th 2011 8:00PM

Massively Meta, Week in Review, Miscellaneous

At the end of every week, we round up the best and most popular news stories, exclusive features, and insightful columns published on Massively and then present them all in one convenient place. Miss a big MMO or WoW Insider story last week? You've come to the right post.

This week, we were positively charrmed by ArenaNet's official reveal of the Guild Wars 2 Charr. We knew the ferocious felines would feature prominently in the upcoming Guild Wars sequel, but now they've been explored in detail. We checked out GW2 blog posts on starting zone design, creature and gender design, and writing lore for the "bad guys." We even got a glimpse of the Charr in a brand-new video sporting in-game footage!

Join us past the break for a look at this week's other top MMO stories.

Massively's Easter event roundup
Bunnies and eggs in your MMOs!
Blizzard adds WoW guild chat to iPhone Mobile Armory app
The new smartphone service is part of Blizzard's paid package.
The Soapbox: Eat your tanking or you won't get your ice cream
Eliot discussed WoW's new Call to Arms "bribery."
The Game Archaeologist plays with MUDs: The games
We covered some of the best text-only MMOs still around.
The Secret World's Dag Scheve talks MMO story
Our exclusive chat with Funcom on the upcoming horror/conspiracy MMO.
New APB Reloaded blog dishes on beta version 1.5.0
The GamersFirst team delivered a Q&A on its F2P APB relaunch.
An exclusive look at RIFT's Update 1.2 and beyond with Scott Hartsman
Trion's Scott Hartsman dished on RIFT's incoming content.
The Road to Mordor: Four more years, four more years!
Happy fourth birthday to Lord of the Rings Online!
ARGO Online launch day is here
The steampunk MMO opened its doors to the masses.
TERA Visions trailer sighted in the wild
En Masse delivered a new TERA fly-through video.
The Perfect Ten: MMO forum terms beaten to death
Justin rounded up the top 10 forum terms we wish would die.
Through Turbine's palantír: Developers outline LotRO's future
We interviewed Turbine on its plans for Rise of Isengard and more.
Choose My Adventure: A pirate's life for me!
Karen donned her eyepatch and wooden leg for a trip into PotBS.
First Impressions: Gunshine
Our first look at this unusual social-friendly browser-based MMO.
Massively interviews EVE senior producer Arnar Gylfason
CCP Zulu filled us in on Incarna, PvE, and more.
Masively's look at DDO's new crafting system
Turbine gave us the scoop on tradeskilling in DDO.
Enter at Your Own Rift: Cry me a river
Karen investigated RIFT's recent event woes.

And from our sister site, WoW Insider...

The OverAchiever: Guide to Noblegarden 2011
WoW Insider's guide to WoW's Easter holiday.
Let's read Activision Blizzard's 2010 10-K annual report
The Lawbringer poked around in WoW's finances.

Tags: joystiq, massively-meta, meta, roundup, top-stories, week-in-review, weekly-recap, weekly-roundup, wow-insider

Reader Comments (5)

When GW2 comes out you might as well just change the name of the site to guildwars2.joystick.com. What's the point of even featuring other MMO's anymore. LoL, no i kid, but not really... :)

@vaughan42 Joke or no, I'm sure if an MMO is popular enough joystiq could create a dedicated site for it, not unlike wow.joystiq.com.

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@vaughan42 I'm pretty sure we'll see one for SWToR and GW2 as well, Rift is really picking up speed, wouldn't be all that surprising to see it get it's own blog site this year if they keep up their pace.

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