Final Fantasy XIV’s studio and boss are getting a rename in a year of change for Square-Enix
Apparently, Square-Enix has been doing more than replacing its president, moving its offices, losing money, and blathering about blockchain and gen AI: It's also...
Walmart now has a digital storefront for real-world goods operating from inside of Roblox
Buying things online from Walmart's website? Like some kind of boomer? That's so last decade. If you want to take your digital Walmart shopping...
Final Fantasy XIV is adding new logistical data center for European players May 7
What if you wanted to log in to a new logistical data center in Europe to play Final Fantasy XIV, but Naoki Yoshida looked...
It’s 2024 and the ESA is still fighting game preservation, forecasting a depraved ‘online arcade’
If you're a longtime MOP reader, you might remember that back in the late teens, we followed the Electronic Frontier Foundation's efforts to petition...
Square-Enix tells investors to expect $140M in ‘extraordinary losses’ this quarter
We're about to start getting Q1 financial reports across the games industry, but the teaser from Square-Enix isn't exactly exuding confidence that it'll be...
‘If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing,’ say gamers reviewbombing the remaining The Crew games
Ubisoft's self-inflicted wounds continue their slow damage-over-time effects as the company that responded to the Stop Killing Games initiative by killing The Crew 1...
Blizzard laid off prolific World of Warcraft writer and lore queen Christie Golden
Among the many people affected by Blizzard's massive layoffs in 2024 was Christie Golden, the rare games writer whose name a whole lot of...
Ubisoft resolves to launch two Web3 games this year but admits five years of work have yielded nothing
Just in case you were thinking that Ubisoft had stopped huffing the guff of Web3, blockchain, and crypto, allow a VentureBeat interview with blockchain...
Make My MMO: Starship Simulator’s $500K Kickstarter, Legends of Aria’s revival
The last few weeks have been absolutely packed for MMO crowdfunding news. To wit:
Legends of Aria aka Shards Online is back! The original...
IGN Live joins a long list of games industry events filling the June E3 hype void
The death of E3 has left quite a spring and summer hype vacuum for the games industry to try to fill - and Geoff...
Into the Super-verse: Why the resurrection of 20-year-old City of Heroes is worth celebrating, even if you don’t play
There's a certain poetry to the fact that this year, on the 20th anniversary of City of Heroes, we can all play the game...
World of Warcraft is retiring the Companion App as it looks forward to the Cataclysm Classic conversion
If you're still salty about being asked this ages ago, don't worry, World of Warcraft fans. Blizzard no longer cares if you have a...
Vague Patch Notes: When MMO designers build traps for players
So last week, I spent a whole lot of words talking about what "the meta" actually means when it comes to MMOs. Put very...
Game devs are concerned about the sustainability of live-service titles
It certainly feels like live service is being tacked on to many recent game releases (whether it makes sense or not), which of course...
Steam is altering the early access refund deal – pray it does not alter it any further
If ever you needed another reason not to purchase or play games in early access, Valve has stepped forward to give you a huge...
Palworld CEO addresses Tencent-backed ‘clone game’ Auroria and similar Chinese mobile titles
Pocket Pair CEO Takuro Mizobe is seeing what having the shoe on the other foot feels like, as he has apparently taken notice of...
Embracer Group announces plans to split itself into ‘three standalone publicly listed entities’
That's right, friends, Embracer Group is back in the business headlines again. Following the stated end of restructuring efforts, corporate leadership has now decided...
Torchlight Infinite skyrockets to its best numbers in over a year thanks to its Whispering Mist season
It may prove to be a momentary blip in the scheme of things, but a resurgence of interest in Torchlight Infinite has returned this...
Skull & Bones is already on 50% discount two months after launch
After being delayed approximately four thousand times, to the point that we were even making jokes about it to the date it released, how...
Entropia Universe announces plans to have an ‘AI president’ manage its MMO
Entropia Universe has not been one to ignore a big shiny bandwagon - remember that this MMO has tried to hawk egg NFTs and...
