Funcom is hiring for the ‘cooperative online shooter’ it teased earlier this year
Remember earlier this year, when Funcom announced in its Q4 2017 financial presentation that its North Carolina branch had greenlit a "cooperative online shooter"...
Star Citizen fans raise pay-to-win objections over removal of in-game currency stockpiling cap
Our inbox exploded last night with Star Citizen tips, and that can mean only one thing: money shenanigans. In-game money, that is, but this...
EA adds new Origin Access premier membership that includes Anthem head start
Do you trust EA with your money? Want to do so on a regular basis? Then you are set up and primed for the...
PvP-centric sub MMO/MOBA hybrid EverFeud has launched its $105K Kickstarter
As we foretold yesterday, the PvP-focused MOBA/MMO hybrid EverFeud has officially launched its Kickstarter today. Developer PSB Entertainment has described the title as a hyper-competitive...
NCsoft is working on an Aion-related ‘next-generation’ MMORPG
No matter what your feelings may be toward NCsoft, it is great to see that the developer and publisher continues to greenlight MMORPGs instead...
The Daily Grind: Are you actually using Steam’s new chat and group features?
Last week, Steam pushed live the changes to its social features it first announced back in June. As we wrote at the time, its...
Monster Hunter World: 8.3M sold, PC performance drag, and Steam data
Capcom has reason to cheer: Monster Hunter World crushed it on PS4. The Japanese publisher's latest revenue report shows that the game sold 8.3...
Gigantic’s last matches are now playing out ahead of tomorrow’s sunset
There will be no stay of execution for the gorgeous MOBA Gigantic, as PWE has put up a countdown clock for the game's final...
Diablo franchise history book Stay Awhile and Listen nears the end of its Kickstarter
Has it really been a month since we covered Stay Awhile and Listen, the second volume in David Craddock's history of Blizzard's development of...
PvP-centric sub-based MMO/MOBA hybrid EverFeud launches Kickstarter tomorrow
Gotta love a friendly tweet in the morning that reminds me about a game I'd forgotten about! I'm talking about EverFeud, a game we...
Chinese MMO company NetEase invests $50M into SpatialOS MMO platform
Improbable's SpatialOS is moving on up in the world: The company announced this week that China's NetEase has invested $50 million to acquire a...
PUBG’s Brendan Greene discusses Steam numbers, Fortnite, and dealing with toxicity
PUBG's Brendan Greene did an interesting interview with RPS last week with some quotes worth highlighting. For starters, he has an interesting take on the...
The Daily Grind: Do you care more about an MMORPG’s playerbase or revenue?
SuperData put out a couple of reports and analyses last week that suggest Fortnite is "cannibalizing" other games, specifically in terms of revenue and...
God Eater Online is shutting down in September
Sadly, it does not seem that God Eater Online really talks much about the experience of turning deific entities into snacks. If you were...
Make My MMO: Camelot’s beta one, Fractured’s successful Kickstarter (July 29, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, anti-grind, PvP-optional MMO sandbox Fractured became the biggest traditional MMORPG to fund on Kickstarter this year (Temtem pulled in more cash...
Space survival game ROKH has suspended development
Following ROKH's early access debut in May 2017, the space survival game faced significant obstacles. It got bogged down in a legal dispute last fall...
Riot’s Marc Merrill was just joking about a League of Legends MMO
It's always good to know that this genre that we love and enjoy can be the butt of the games industry's jokes. Last week,...
Betawatch: Fallout 76 starts beta testing in October (July 27, 2018)
Good news for those of you patiently (or not-so-patiently) waiting for Fallout 76 to enter beta testing, you have a date! Slightly worse news,...
EA would like a slice of that sweet, sweet battle royale pie, please
EA is still eyeing battle royale, but maybe not the way you're thinking. During the company's quarterly investor call this week, everyone clearly had Fortnite...
CCP has obliquely confirmed it’s working on a brand-new ‘action MMO’
Remember back in December, when the gaming world noticed that CCP's hiring page sought a lead designer to run "a new and highly ambitious...