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...
Wild Buster is back as Champions of Titan under a new publisher
Remember Wild Buster? Back in February, Valve booted its publisher, Insel Games, off Steam, accusing it of review manipulation after a dev leaked a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 182: Follow the Torchlight
Justin and Bree discuss World of Warcraft, Star Wars Galaxies, LOTRO, Torchlight Frontiers, Diablo, RuneScape Classic, Trove, and No Man's Sky. And also haiku!
Riot and Tencent appear to be on unpleasant terms with one another
Some fans are still probably a bit miffed that Riot Games (maker of League of Legends and that's all) teased them about the possibility...
NCsoft Q3 2018: Aion, Blade & Soul, Guild Wars 2 revenues dip, while NCsoft teases three new titles
NCsoft's second quarter financials for the year hit this morning, and it's not exactly bad news. Sales are down slightly, but everything looks wimpy...
Hi-Rez reorganizes SMITE, Paladins, and Realm Royale teams as newly renamed substudios
Hi-Rez Studios is making bold moves today: It's just announced that it's splitting up the band, unbundling its games teams into separate but joined...
EverFeud’s Kickstarter has been canceled, but the devs say they’ll ‘pursue other options’
At the tail end of July, we covered the Kickstarter of EverFeud, a PvP-focused MOBA/MMO hybrid that sought $105,000 to fund development. Unfortunately, the...
Monster Hunter World breaks its Steam record but now faces a regulation nightmare in China
The record for highest concurrent users on Steam for a game launched in 2018 goes to Monster Hunter World, smashing the record set by......
Bethsoft: Dodgy reseller lawsuits, new media review policies, and Legends crossplay ultimata
Today in why we can't have nice things, it appears that Bethsoft is using its legal weight to crack down on folks selling fully...
Pearl Abyss sees hefty revenue bump thanks to Black Desert
Pearl Abyss, the Korean developer of Black Desert, posted its Q2 2018 earnings report this past week, showing both significantly increased revenue and profits...
Fallout 76 signs on Inon Zur for another musical tour of duty in the wasteland
It's hard to imagine a Fallout game these days without the haunting and beautiful score of video game composer Inon Zur. Fortunately, players this...
League of Legends Lead Designer Ghostcrawler moves to an unnamed project
Let's play connect-the-dots today and see if we can see a picture forming over at Riot Games, shall we? Back in July, its co-founder...
Elder Scrolls Online drops Murkmire, Wolfhunter trailers, buffs subscriber benefits
ZeniMax is dropping some good stuff at QuakeCon for players of The Elder Scrolls Online. If you're a dedicated subscriber, you're in for some...
Greed Monger delays refunds again because of crypto market dips
There's been another update in the long-running saga that is Greed Monger.
Greed Monger is easily the most infamous MMORPG Kickstarter failure to date, having raised...
Discord has launched its own video game storefront into beta, and it kinda looks like a Steam-GOG mashup
We all rolled our eyes when Valve's new Steam chat client borrowed heavily from Discord's proven best practices for chat, but most people didn't...
