TitanReach plans its comeback after suddenly receiving full funding from a mysterious benefactor
Apparently, some beneficent soul descended upon Square Root Studios' TitanReach and saw fit to bring the game back up from the dead. After the...
Betawatch: Book of Travels begins teasing early access, again
In the long saga of Book of Travels doing almost everything other than actually entering its promised early access state, this week marked an odd...
MMO Business Roundup: Discord’s funding, Bungie’s lawsuit, and harassment in online gaming
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news.
Discord: Investors love dumping money into Discord, and they're continuing the trend, as the...
Kingdom Under Fire 2 is shutting down in October
It's almost time to wave farewell to Kingdom Under Fire 2; publisher Gameforge has announced that the title will sunset for good on October 26th,...
Ashes of Creation snags former Elder Scrolls Online lead writer as new senior narrative designer
It would be easy to assume that Ashes of Creation will be thin on lore owing to its PvP sandbox nature and its main...
Raph Koster’s plan is to build the metaverse tech, build a sandbox MMORPG on it, then open it all up
If Raph Koster's metaverse talk has you more confused than before, then don't worry; his new more technical blog is going to scramble your...
Conan Exiles is cracking down on toxicity and sploits on official servers
Funcom appears to be cleaning up the Conan Exiles official servers, as this week it announced a change to its terms of conduct. It specifically...
Amazon Games hired a former Ubisoft Toronto boss to lead its new Montreal studio
Amazon Games announced today that it's picked a new leader for its new Montreal-based studio: Alexandre Parizeau. If that name sounds familiar, it's because...
Funcom picks up the Conan IP and ‘dozens’ more with latest acquisition
One of the trickier parts of the MMO business is the interplay between IP holders and the companies that make games with those IPs...
Eternal Crusade is now officially shut down for good
We're not entirely certain, but this probably means that the heretics won. Eternal Crusade is now shut down for good, with the developers posting one last...
Yet another top Google Stadia executive has left the project
If you were thinking that eventually the long long of bad things happening to Google Stadia was eventually going to run out, well, you're...
Riot Games claims it made headway into diversity efforts over 2020
Ever since Riot Games was called out by its own employees and the state of California as a truly toxic and sexist workplace, the...
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s layoffs, Star Citizen’s concept ship shenanigans, and more MMO crowdfunding news
Crowfall's layoffs dominated the crowdfunding headlines this week, as the Kickstarted MMORPG admitted that it had downsized, attributing the move to a transition to...
Twitch unleashes a lawsuit against two alleged hate raid organizers
In August we reported on efforts by streamers to call attention to hate raiding and other forms of harassment targeting Black, POC, and LGBT+...
The Epic v. Apple ruling permanently stops Apple from blockading third-party purchasing
Happy Friday, and happy one more entry in the longrunning Epic-Apple feud, as today, the judge in the Epic v. Apple lawsuit, Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers,...
EG7’s acting CEO Ji Ham discusses investment in existing Daybreak games and support of a ‘AAA project’
Last week we noted that Enad Global 7's acting CEO Ji Ham, who himself was tapped for the position in a surprise management shake-up,...
Tencent, Netease hit with stock losses amid China’s gaming industry clampdown
If you've been following the gaming industry for a while, you probably remember the big "freezes" that the Chinese government placed on new game...
So it turns out Raph Koster is building the metaverse and a sandbox MMO on top of it
Last week, we covered Playable Worlds' Raph Koster's teasing about a metaverse. This week, he's delivered a lot more than a tease.
"We have built...
World of Tanks community rep resigns in protest over firing of fellow Wargaming staffer
Wargaming, the studio behind World of Warships and World of Tanks, is garnering the wrong kind of attention all over again, this time for...
Crowfall confirms layoffs, attributing them to switching to a ‘live service’ op
On Labor Day, we reported that Crowfall team ArtCraft had suffered a round of layoffs. While ArtCraft itself declined to comment on the record...
