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Pearl Abyss Q1 2024: Revenues hold steady as Crimson Desert gears up for reveals
Pearl Abyss makes its English financials website a bit of a navigation nightmare, but the company's Q1 2024 earnings presentation is indeed up - which is more than we can say for its financials, which are basically flat.
The Black Desert and EVE Online company ended Q1 with 85.4B KRW - around 62M USD. That's down a half a percent...
Star Citizen showcases the creation of the two brand-new animals coming to alpha 3.23
Land on any planet in Star Citizen currently and you'll be greeted by things like weather patterns, flora, and very possibly a derelict or two. What you won't find are any animals, however. That's going to change with alpha 3.23's release, as CIG has finally put together two animals to populate certain planets. That's not quite three, but it's...
WoW Classic hosts a ‘welcome back weekend’ with free play through May 13 for Cataclysm’s pre-patch
These days, it feels as if World of Warcraft is trying to make you choose whether you want to live with WoW Classic or Retail -- or have bedrooms in both houses. This weekend, however, the former gets custody of you former players as WoW Classic hosts a welcome back weekend of free play.
From now through Monday, anyone with...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest you’ve ever spent working on a specific MMO goal?
The other day, I saw a tweet from Wowhead that quoted Blizzard confirming that it's meant to take a long, long time to collect all the birdies from World of Warcraft's Noblegarden... six years, in fact, and that's not an April Fools' day joke. Something about the revelation provoked my contrary side; it's the kind of grind that seems...
The Stream Team: Dungeons & Dragons Online goes on A Witch Hunt
Massively OP's MJ and her party got a bit of a reputation after breaking up the party of satyrs in DDO. Now, the Feywild's Master of the Wild Hunt wants the group to join in the current hunt to prove their worth. The target? The powerful hag Beatrice, who was terrorizing the Gatekeepers in Stormreach with her two sisters...
Massively Overthinking: Why and how we mod our MMORPGs
Last week, the MOP team was sitting around in our virtual offices, talking about modding Elder Scrolls Online, all because some of our readers were encouraging Chris to pick up some mods for his playthrough for Choose My Adventure. Justin and I started musing on how we approach modding very differently - he doesn't mod much, but I always...
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server Empire in Flames turns 7, teases Mandalorian content
Among the multiple Star Wars MMOs with reason to celebrate during this most hallowed of weeks is Empire in Flames, a rare roleplay-friendly Star Wars Galaxies rogue server. As the player team noted, the server has just taken its seventh trip around the sun.
"Today officially marks the anniversary of An Empire in Flames server," the team wrote on May...
Dawn of Defiance is a Greek mythology-themed co-op survival game headed for early access this year
Do you like survival titles like Valheim or Enshrouded but you're tired of the whole Nordic and Viking vibe? What do you feel about that sort of setup but in ancient Greek mythology instead? That's the very broad strokes approximation we can reach with Dawn of Defiance, a newly announced co-op survival title from developer Traega that lets up...
Gigantic patches out crashes and bugs, promises ranked mode’s release soon
Ever since Gigantic made its bumpy return, developer Abstraction has been attempting to provide the TLC our PvP columnist Sam feels it seriously needs. It's that focus on fixing bugs and crashes that headlines the MOBA's latest patch, which attempts to run over several problems for all versions of the game.
The hotfix zeroes in on what Abstraction calls "pressing...
DC Universe Online reruns Spring Seasonal event with new items and adds a new ally in latest patch
The spring season is in full bloom across the heroic and villainous sides of DC Universe Online, as today marks the return of the Springtime Seasonal event, which is running between now and Wednesday, May 29th. And this year's event is absolutely full of colorful rewards.
Players can enjoy springtime cosmetics like fairy wings, elf ears, a thematic new chroma...
Tencent and Control developer Remedy cancel co-op Project Kestrel
Steel yourself for great disappointment: A game that you probably had no idea was in the making has been cancelled. Massively OP grief counselors are standing by to take your call.
Remedy Entertainment, which is famous for its past work on the Alan Wake and Control franchises, announced that itis pulling the plug on Project Kestrel. This was a co-op...
Miracle-Gro asks gamers to film gardening in games from Stardew Valley to Minecraft
This is such a weird crosspromo that I literally dropped what I was doing to write it up because I know this is gonna be a contender for the Golden Yachties at the end of the year: A whole bunch of farming games are the subject of a promotional content/event with Micracle-Gro, which is basically a popular gardening brand...
EA wants to try in-game advertising again, but promises a ‘thoughtful’ approach this time
This year has already provided all kinds of CEO-level lunacy, so what's one more to the pile, right? This latest case of C-suite brainworm brilliance comes courtesy of Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson, who confirmed in the company's latest earnings call that he's considering another round of real-world ads in video games. Again.
"As we think about the many, many...
Fractured Online’s new patch with playable demon races is live today after a day of delay
Kickstarted sandbox Fractured Online is back with its second major update since its relaunch into early access, and if you like demons - as in, you've always wanted to actually be one - then this is the update for you.
Today's patch includes the two new playable demon races - Blood Demons and Hellfire Demons - along with the racial...
Albion Online broke its Steam player concurrency again as it contends with block in Indonesia
Sandbox Interactive hasn't released Albion Online player counts since Albion Europe went live, but if Steam is any indication, it's going over super well.
According to SteamCharts, the game's peak player count on Steam (though not its average) is at its highest ever, over 27,000 peak concurrent just on that platform. That's just a sliver of the game's playerbase, of...
Tamriel Infinium: Four reasons you should stop sleeping on Elder Scrolls Online
The paradox of Elder Scrolls Online is that while it continues to be a Top 5 MMO thanks to the studio muscle and IP fandom, it's not a game that seems to get talked about in the way the other titles do. It's quietly successful, out there doing its thing, and almost being too down-low that it gets overlooked...
Legends of Aria Classic relaunches this afternoon as devs commit to ‘refining the core game loop’
Legends of Aria is set for a proper relaunch today as promised, after a fairly low-key surprise open beta last weekend for the Kickstarted game that's been through more twists and turns than a pretzel thanks to a game rename, sale to a crypto outfit, and abandoned legacy server.
But Citadel Studios' Derek Brinkmann is pushing onward with the reboot...
Vague Patch Notes: The problem with forever adding classes to MMOs
The second expansion for Final Fantasy XI, Chains of Promathia, launched to extremely mixed reception, and there was one overwhelming reason for that lack of enthusiastic endorsement. Oh, sure, there were problems with the expansion's difficulty and balancing, but one of the biggest and most persistent criticisms was the fact that it was an expansion with no new jobs. People...
Monsters & Memories shares another dev progress report, announces plans for a June public playtest
Like clockwork, the sandbox MMORPG Monsters & Memories has published its latest progress report for April development, but it first opens with some pretty exciting news for those who are closely following the game: a rough timeline for its next round of testing.
Niche Worlds Cult is eyeing another public playtest for some time at the end of June, with...
Microsoft continues shrinking ZeniMax and Xbox with voluntary severance deals
Sure, Microsoft shuttered a bunch of studios and added more layoffs to its pile earlier this week, but it can't possibly get worse, right? Unfortunately, it can. As Bloomberg reported last night, Microsoft has plans to continue the bloodbath. In addition to the four closed studios and abandoned games, the company aims to push more people out out Xbox...
