It’s 2024 and the ESA is still fighting game preservation, forecasting a depraved ‘online arcade’
Star Wars The Old Republic’s GU 7.5, Desperate Defiance, includes a farming system and solo Ventures
Final Fantasy XIV’s studio and boss are getting a rename in a year of change for Square-Enix
EG7’s 2023 annual report claims Daybreak and SSG collectively count 264 staffers
Helldivers 2 delists from Steam in non-PSN countries as studio boss admits fault in debacle
Sony walks back returning PSN account requirements for Helldivers 2 PC players
Microsoft shutters multiple studios, abandons Redfall, bolsters Elder Scrolls Online staffing
Kickstarted afrofantasy MMORPG The Wagadu Chronicles is sunsetting before launch
Vampire survivalbox V Rising officially departs early access with the launch of 1.0 Ruins of Mortium
Helldivers 2 players try to undo reviewbomb damage and restore a fired community manager
Kakao Q1 2024: ArcheAge 2 and Chrono Odyssey are apparently back on track for 2025
Microsoft continues shrinking ZeniMax and Xbox with voluntary severance deals
EA wants to try in-game advertising again, but promises a ‘thoughtful’ approach this time
Pearl Abyss Q1 2024: Revenues hold steady as Crimson Desert gears up for reveals
Lightforge Games halts social RPG production, downsizes to a skeleton crew
Square-Enix Q1 2024: Profits plummet as it promises to ‘reboot and awaken’
Albion Online has broken its population record again with 358K concurrent players
Diablo IV’s ‘Loot Reborn’ overhaul patch arrives today
Valheim’s F2P Ashlands biome patch has finally launched after a year and a half wait
Wayfinder’s summer Echoes update banishes always-online and microtransaction components
Palia studio Singularity 6 has been slammed with yet another layoff round
Ubisoft cancels The Division Heartland in spite of record annual corporate revenues
Interview: Wayfinder’s AJ LaSaracina on the Echoes transition, launch, and long-term plans
EG7 Q1 2024: Daybreak still mum on PlanetSide 2, new H1Z1 game hires lead designer
World of Warcraft’s Pandaria Remix speed-leveling event is live this afternoon
Dauntless and Fae Farm dev Phoenix Labs has laid off another 100+ people in latest restructure
Full-loot PvP MMO Abyss finally rolls into early access after several delays
NCsoft Q1 2024: Guild Wars 2 is on one hell of a revenue streak as Throne & Liberty stalls
WoW Classic Cataclysm formally launches tonight as Blizzard tunes WoW Remix
EVE Online blockchain spinoff Project Awakening begins Phase III and ‘hackathon’ testing today
Amazon Games opens new studio in Romania to support ‘ambitious long-term roadmap’
Sand is an open-world PvPvE game where players build stompy robot bases to explore an alien planet
For Science: Fandom’s survey shows a majority of gamers play to unwind and de-stress
Legends of Aria Classic lays out massive June overhaul patch, postpones subscription
Nightingale’s offline mode and QOL-laden 0.3 update are now live
Co-op multiplayer RPG Wuthering Waves makes its global release on PC and mobile tonight
Puzzle MMO Islands of Insight is getting an offline mode ‘in the coming months’
World of Warcraft will finally implement story mode raids starting with The War Within
EverQuest launches Teek and Tormax, a new pair of time-locked expansion servers for subscribers
Overwatch 2 is killing its Hero Mastery Gauntlet PvE mode at the end of season 10
Shroud of the Avatar execs expand on Slayscape, a procedurally generated battle royale RPG
Lawsuit accuses Activision and Facebook of partial blame in deadly 2022 school mass shooting
Tarisland announces a global release date of June 21 – here’s the new trailer
Star Trek Online’s Unparalleled is live on PC today, helmed by Denise Crosby
Warner Bros. battler MultiVersus officially relaunches with cross-platform play
Star Wars The Old Republic’s GU 7.5 Desperate Defiance launches today alongside The Acolyte collab
Mike Morhaime’s Dreamhaven game studios open playtest sign-ups for their upcoming games
No Man’s Sky’s Adrift expedition offers a lonely and hostile ‘alternative universe’
Wolcen is stripping out multiplayer and heading into maintenance mode
Fallout 76 counts 20 million players as franchise interest continues to spike
