World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth sells ‘more than 3.4 million’ copies for a ‘day-one sales record’ for WoW
We were just grumbling on this week's MOP Podcast about not having any idea how well World of Warcraft's Battle for Azeroth had sold...
Roleplay-centric Project Oasis World fails to fund
It has certainly been a rough summer for Kickstarter MMORPGs. On the heel of a pair of failed projects from last week comes the...
Ashes of Creation addresses My.com concerns, localization, pay-to-win, publishing, and regionlocks
Earlier this week, the Ashes of Creation team sparked a wildfire of concern when it announced that it'll partner with My.com to publish the...
Shigeru Miyamoto didn’t want to make an MMO because he would get bored
Have you ever wondered about an MMO developed by Nintendo's resident legend, Shigeru Miyamoto? You may be intrigued by Miyamoto's remarks at the Computer...
Guild Wars 2: New systems team, outfit vouchers, PvP updates, Revenant overhaul, and anniversary sales
One of my big grumps with Guild Wars 2 and plenty of other MMORPG cash shops is the time-limited items. The stuff I want...
EverQuesting: The history of the EverQuest franchise
Back in 2013, I took a walk through the annals of the EverQuest franchise's history. What started as one title not only blossomed into...
Twitch Prime is terminating most of its ad-free viewing benefits – here’s what it means for you
Even if you're among the select elite of society that has access to Twitch Prime and its bevy of benefits, you will no longer...
My.com will publish Ashes of Creation in Europe and the CIS region [Updated]
We've updated at the end of the article with an additional statement from Intrepid.
Ashes of Creation is barreling on toward its first real alpha,...
First impressions of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, part 4: Conclusions
Part four covers expansion odds and ends plus the conclusion to our series: the problem with Azerite, progression, and why the expansion isn't bad, just weakly executed.
Cliff Bleszinski promises to detail Boss Key’s demise in his upcoming autobiography
For those of you who missed it over the past year or so, the path of Boss Key Productions was one of being founded...
Make My MMO: Two canceled MMO Kickstarters and two languishing, but plushies for the win (August 18, 2018)
It's been a weird week in MMO crowdfunding. The Codename Reality Kickstarter isn't looking good; devs have raised under 2% of their original half a million dollar...
Take-Two scores in lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto franchise hack distributor
US courts have once again aligned with game companies in a lawsuit against cheaters and purveyors of cheat programs.
This time, it's Take-Two Interactive doing...
Betawatch: Fallout 76 shares details on PvP and crossplay (August 17, 2018)
There's still stuff happening with Fallout 76, even though players aren't testing it yet. You can at least test things out in your mind...
Mortgage company analyzes the price differences between video game housing, including Final Fantasy XIV
How much is your house worth in The Sims 4? Obviously, the game attaches a value to it, but that's just game terms and...
The Daily Grind: Should being an MMO ‘whale’ absolve a player of toxicity or push him to the front of a queue?
Longtime MOP reader Agemyth recently brought to our attention a couple of bits of commentary that disturb at least my own fundamental sense of...
Rend’s Jeremy Wood on how Frostkeep borrows from Blizzard, Dark Age of Camelot, and PlanetSide
GameDaily has an interview with Rend's Jeremy Wood this week that covers a bunch of meta topics of interest to MMO players and watchers...
Diablo III is heading to the Nintendo Switch this fall
We may now know at least one of the several Diablo projects that Blizzard was teasing last week. Blizzard Watch reports that Diablo III...
Orake’s devs ask someone, anyone, else to take over this 2-D MMO
No, you've probably never heard of Orake before -- and chances are that you never will again, either.
The crude-looking indie MMORPG has been slowly...
A judge has mostly denied Star Citizen studio’s motion to dismiss the Crytek copyright lawsuit
MMO-watchers will recall that just before the turn of the new year, Crytek filed to sue Cloud Imperium, the company behind the sprawling and...
Jagex gets into games publishing while RuneScape crosses $1 billion earned
Jagex isn't content to be "just the RuneScape studio" these days. The company announced today that it is preparing to move into the publishing...
