Betawatch: Star Citizen is going to kill you now
Look out, Star Citizen players! The latest update is going to kill you and make you drop all your stuff whenever that happens! Yes, technically...
Nexon’s Q3 2021 financials tease ‘virtual worlds’ from Embark Studios
Nexon this week released its Q3 2021 financials, which were down 4% year-over-year, largely thanks to the fact that Q3 2020 was so lucrative...
Apple was denied its request to postpone third-party payment options
Welcome to the continued aftermath of the Epic/Apple lawsuit. When we last left off, Apple was trying to postpone its acceptance of third-party payment...
NCsoft Q3 2021: Guild Wars 2 just had its best quarter in years
NCsoft's Q3 2021 financials are a story of good news, bad news. Let's do the bad news first: The Korean gaming giant reported a...
New Zealand’s Grinding Gear Games ramps up hiring for Path of Exile 2
Grinding Gear Games took the wraps off Path of Exile 2 earlier this year, when it admitted that the game has been taking longer...
MMO Business Roundup: Discord crypto mess, Unity buys Weta, Roblox Q3 2021 financials
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Business business business... is this working?
Discord: Well, Discord's gone and ticked off its...
CIG announces plans to open a new Manchester UK studio in May 2022
How many studio locations does it take for Star Citizen to get made? At least one more, apparently, as CIG has announced that it...
Riot Games teases Legends of Runeterra’s Path of Champions and new LoL spinoff Hextech Mayhem
Riot Games is continuing its cavalcade of announcements and reveals this week. First, the company's Riot Forge division revealed another League of Legends spinoff,...
EverQuest II celebrates its 17th anniversary, hires a new tradeskill designer
Where were you back in November 2004 when EverQuest II first came on the scene? A lot of expectations were placed on this follow-up...
Activision-Blizzard labor organizers score win for contractors as the Actiblizz lawsuits continue
Last week, following the brutal Activision-Blizzard investor call that saw the delay of multiple Blizzard titles and a stock plummet, the A Better ABK...
Ubisoft offers pay raises to stanch losses as workers rally public support for change
One has to imagine that the suits at Ubisoft were secretly delighted that Blizzard's scandal this year took the public's attention away from its...
Developer Core Loop raises $12M to make an in-development blockchain MMO
This past Friday saw yet another link in the blockchain craze that seems hell-bent on subsuming MMOs get forged with an announcement that development...
League of Legends’ animated series Arcane rakes in rave reviews across the internet
It would appear that Netflix has another hit on its hands with the premiere of the League of Legends animated series Arcane, which made...
The Daily Grind: Do you pay close attention to MMO studio financial reports?
Investor reports are bland, boring, and usually not what anyone finds to be gripping reading even if you're an investor in a given company....
Square Enix earnings drop, FFXIV subs rise, and NFT is here to stay
All things considered, Square Enix is mopping its brow after its latest earning's call and thanking its lucky stars that it wasn't worse. The...
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker has been delayed until December 7
If you've been counting the days until Final Fantasy XIV's next expansion arrived, you're going to have to count a little bit longer. Producer...
Betawatch: Lost Ark surges for its closed beta week
We're hoping that you're going out there to find the ark! It is assumed that this is the main goal of Lost Ark because why else...
Riot Games is partnering with Rihanna’s makeup brand Fenty to promote Arcane
File this one in the bin where I put all the weird cross-promos for a snarky end-of-the-year post: Riot Games is collaborating with Fenty...
Desert Oasis: Unearthing the origin story of Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss
On our side of the pond, the exploits of various popular video game companies and their founding are well documented. But when it comes...
The Daily Grind: Do you support MMOs that you don’t like or play?
Last month when Book of Travels launched, I caught a comment from a MOP reader, Kothoses, who said something that really grabbed me. He...
