Make My MMO: Project Gorgon builds a new city, Camelot Unchained teases Star Citizen
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Project Gorgon has been cooking up a big patch. "Next week's update includes a new city for players with...
UK researchers identify link between lootboxes and problem gambling
Are lockboxes just another form of gambling? That depends on which government entity, scientist, lawyer, or doctor you ask. But maybe the question we...
Betawatch: Star Citizen wants you to mine rocks and buy another concept ship
What do you know, there's another concept ship for sale over in Star Citizen. And it's relentlessly specialized in one specific field, making it...
THQ Nordic suggests it bought Kingdoms of Amalur and MMO Project Copernicus chiefly for their IP
When THQ Nordic announced last week that it was acquiring 38 Studios' castoffs - Kingdoms of Amalur and MMORPG Project Copernicus - the news...
Riot Games hires former Uber exec to advise on still-raging sexism scandal
Earlier this week, League of Legends developer Riot Games announced that it has hired the services of former Senior Vice President of Leadership at...
Black Desert patches in pirate and equestrian events as Pearl Abyss reclaims Russian publishing
Black Desert heard you liked events, so it's trotted out events aplenty for this week's patch: Ride on Time (uggggg, that one hurts) for...
CCP Games discusses EVE Online as a forever game, its 300K players, and its mobile and big screen aspirations
Variety has a fresh interview with CCP Games CEO Hilmar Petursson on the sale of the company - and its chief asset, MMORPG EVE...
Fortnite on Android has lots of fake versions with malware, spyware, and so forth
Hey, remember when concerns were raised about Fortnite on Android not having any built-in security by avoiding the Google Play store? After all, it'd...
China’s delays on video game licenses may last another 4-6 months
It's been a bit of a rough go for games in China recently; Monster Hunter World was the first massively popular game we watched...
Belgium begins criminal investigation into EA’s noncompliance with gambling laws as lockboxes remain in FIFA
Activision-Blizzard and Valve may have cooperated with European nations' lockbox demands, but apparently EA won't be playing ball.
You'll recall that at the end of...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has had at least a million concurrent players for a year
For all the jokes about another game eating its chicken dinner, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is still doing quite well for itself on Steam. The title...
RuneScape hits highest sub peak in seven years as Jagex pulls in record financial performance
If you're not paying attention, you might never realize that RuneScape is still kicking ass and taking names. But the money doesn't lie, and...
Former Cryptic employee reveals story of how City of Heroes assets and source code accidentally ended up on players’ computers
Hey, you guys remember that time that City of Heroes accidentally pushed all of the game's assets and source code into a patch, then...
Roblox secures another $150 million in funding
Consider this your regularly scheduled reminder that Roblox makes money and also serves as an attractive investment for making more money. Yes, the company...
EVE Evolved: What could the sale of CCP Games mean for EVE Online?
Just a few days ago, we awoke to news so unexpected that it made me check I hadn't time-traveled to April 1st: EVE Online...
Superdata has been bought by Nielsen
You all remember SuperData, right? We cover a lot of their reports about industry performance and all of that fun stuff, because we obviously...
Make My MMO: Crowdfunding for Shroud of the Avatar’s comic and an injured dev (September 8, 2018)
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, it's a minor miracle that anybody is paying any attention to Kickstarted games, what with all the mega...
Betawatch: Ashes of Creation furthers its alpha amidst a news bomb (September 7, 2018)
So, uh, yeah. This week. You notice how the "breaking" box there is overstuffed with stories? That's because this week has just been crazy...
Overwatch League signs on six more teams for its 2019 season
If Blizzard were to stop adding new things to Overwatch, it would die, like some sort of new content shark. That's already a known...
The Daily Grind: So how worried are you about Pearl Abyss’ buyout of CCP Games?
The panic over the impending Pearl Abyss buyout of CCP Games has been palpable for the last 24 hours. The EVE Online Reddit was...
