Path of Exile cancels new lockboxes-within-lockboxes after ‘intensely negative’ feedback
So let's play a little round of bad news, good news with Path of Exile. Yesterday, with the Blight expansion not even a week...
Funcom is still working on co-op shooter and multiplayer Dune game, according to Q2 2019 financials
Buried under all the WoW Classic news at the end of August was Funcom's second quarter financial report. Let's rectify our oversight with a...
Bless Online has officially sunsetted – RIP, Bless
Back in June, Neowiz announced the sad news that Bless Online's western version on Steam - the last version left alive - was sunsetting...
EA’s infamous ‘sense of pride and accomplishment’ post now holds a Guinness record – for Reddit downvotes
By now, we're all familiar with the 2017 comment by EA about how lootboxes provide "a sense of pride and accomplishment." The remark was...
The Daily Grind: Did you ever skip any great MMOs to play something more popular?
With WoW Classic in the news so much lately, I've been thinking back to 2004 when the original World of Warcraft launched. We've spent...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s alpha 3.6.2 is live, but some features have been postponed
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen finally pushed out alpha 3.6.2 after a bit of delay - and that's not all that's being...
For Science: Another longitudinal study demonstrates no link between video games and aggression
Back in July, we covered a Stetson University paper for a study that examined over 3000 Singaporean primary and secondary school students over the...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained is no longer stuck on your character
Don't you hate when you're just walking along and find out you've got some other character stuck to you? No, probably not, for much...
Nexon Korea employees stage a protest to stop restructuring and call for job security
In late August, we reported on plans for Nexon's union members to protest against efforts to restructure the company and demand assurances that their...
Leaderboard: Does Guild Wars 2 need another expansion?
If you've followed NCsoft's quarterly investor reports for the last many years, you've probably seen dozens graphs of Guild Wars 2's revenues and the...
Steam is running a beta for its new library system starting on September 17
The current library for your games in Steam is... fine. It's fine. It offers everything that you absolutely need in a library system. It...
EVE Online studio CCP Games confirms it’s still working on an unannounced MMORPG
For the last couple of years, we've been getting little teases from EVE Online company CCP Games that it's working on yet another MMORPG,...
Final Fantasy XIV is experimenting with social media support through November
If you've got an issue with your Final Fantasy XIV account, you have another way of getting support through November 29th. Square-Enix has announced the...
Pearl Abyss takes over for Nexon and NCsoft as the biggest exhibitor at South Korea’s G-star
It's really unusual that neither NCsoft nor Nexon will be exhibiting this year at South Korea's G-Star conference in November. This prompted some nervousness...
World of Warcraft: Classic’s inevitable goldsellers are using modern chat functions to advertise
Gold selling isn't nearly as much of a thing on modern World of Warcraft like it used to be; the existence of the WoW Token...
A retailer release list doubles down on rumors for an Overwatch release on the Switch
With the next Nintendo Direct event for fans in the very near future, the rumors of Overwatch arriving on the Nintendo Switch are flying even...
Fallen Earth is going offline indefinitely (but hope remains for a reboot)
Fallen Earth's 10th anniversary event is about to become the post-apocalyptic MMORPG's last hurrah - at least for now.
Little Orbit announced on Tuesday that...
Gaming psychologist Jamie Madigan explains what ‘surprise mechanics’ actually are
We're all familiar with the "surprise mechanics" incident, the absurdist argument in defense of lootboxes from EA's VP of legal and government affairs Kerry...
Betawatch: Peria Chronicles is gone, WoW Classic has launched
I feel so alone, Peria Chronicle's gone, its release has cut and run;
Why should I be so blue? Well, what else can I do? Its...
Massively Overthinking: The future of WoW and WoW Classic
With WoW Classic finally launched, perfectly capping off the summer with jokes about queueing like it's 2004, we can't help but look to the...
