Riot plops League of Legends, Runeterra, and Valorant on the Epic Games Store as LoL’s Jinx comes to Fortnite
With its closest rival staggered after a poor quarterly showing and a brutal stock drop, Riot Games is leaping into the vacuum with a...
WoW Factor: Blizzard’s investment call was all bad news for World of Warcraft
Tuesday's investor call for Activision-Blizzard was not what I would generally call good news for the company across the board, but the reality is...
Kakao is taking over publishing ArcheAge in the west from Gamigo
It's the end of an era: The Western version of ArcheAge is getting a new publisher. Come December, Kakao will be running the game...
The Daily Grind: Which new MMO from 2021 do you have the highest hopes for?
This year has been almost an embarrassment of riches when it comes to new MMOs launching with a pretty sizable push. We saw Crowfall...
How to support Extra Life 2021, from Guild Wars 2 and EverQuest to LOTRO and City of Heroes
If you caught MJ's latest Massively Uplifting, you probably noticed that Extra Life is ramping up across the gaming industry, and particularly among MMORPG...
Lineage 2M kicks off its beta worldwide through November 7
Wait, didn't we already have this? Isn't there already a version of Lineage II playable on mobile devices? I can't keep up with this...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2021: Blizzard MAUs hold steady at 26M as Diablo II Resurrected drives revenues
Welcome back to our quarterly coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials, the release day of which has become one of the schadenfreude highlights of each...
Honor of Kings is getting an online open-world spinoff with plans for a global launch
How much time did you spend thinking about Honor of Kings yesterday? We're going to go ahead and guess "not a whole lot," but...
The Daily Grind: How often do you make it through the first month of a new MMO?
If you don't read MMO-related subreddits, you might not be aware that the folks coming in on the daily to insist that New World...
MMO Business Roundup: Ubisoft thinks crypto is just swell
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news.
Ubisoft: Ubisoft just can't seem to stop taking wrong turns here. During its...
Fortnite is closing down in China on November 15
One of the biggest names in battle royale is closing up shop in China in the middle of this month. The Chinese version of...
The Daily Grind: If your favorite MMO announced maintenance mode tomorrow, would you keep playing?
If you'll permit me to butcher the old phrase about getting older vs. dying... maintenance mode sucks, but it's better than the alternative.
Maintenance mode,...
Texas-based PAX South won’t be back thanks to COVID and declining participation
While the COVID pandemic has made us no strangers to gaming convention cancellations, usually announcements of such are followed up by a hopeful look...
Betawatch: Profane shows off its character creation models
We're going to go ahead and lay out a hot take for all of you this week: Character creation in an MMORPG is pretty important....
Amazon’s game studio VP talks about New World’s launch and the company’s vision for future releases
Christoph Hartmann, Amazon’s vice president of games studios, has seen a lot of false starts and stumbles with Amazon Games' previous projects, but with...
Vague Patch Notes: The fuzzy reality of MMO expansions
So for some reason right now, I'm thinking a lot about expansions. It might be because we've got Final Fantasy XIV's next major expansion in...
World of Warcraft, lacking any sense of shame, releases a new cash shop mount
The year is 2021. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has been out for nearly a year. It has had one content update. One. Every other game...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPGs of all time, 2021 edition
Five years ago this week - back in 2016 - the MOP team and readers did an epic Massively Overthinking picking out their top...
Blizzard fully assimilates Diablo II: Resurrected’s Vicarious Visions
It's always with a vague sense of unease that we witness studios acquired by larger game developers and then, more often than not, completely...
Activision-Blizzard partly meets some worker demands, dramatically cuts Bobby Kotick’s compensation
At 5:15 a.m. EDT this morning, Activision-Blizzard's PR team dropped a lengthy letter from CEO Bobby Kotick, addressing everything from the ongoing pandemic to...
