Daybreak bought Palia studio Singularity 6 and aims to bring the game to launch
File this one under "did not see this coming in a million years but also not sad about it whatsoever": Daybreak has acquired Palia...
MMO Business Roundup: Roblox’s 4D AI, Perfect World’s layoffs, Bethsoft’s unionization, and Rockstar’s ambitions
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Roblox - The controversial games giant now claims that it's "building...
UK employment tribunal says Star Citizen studio discriminated against autistic employee
While we recognize that this monetary ruling is barely a bug bite to the wrist of Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games, we'll take...
Sega is promising a new open-world and massively multiplayer Crazy Taxi game
If you've never played Crazy Taxi before, the gameplay is very simple to describe: Someone gets in your taxi, you drive to the designated...
Tribes 3 Rivals heads into de facto maintenance mode as developers offer compensation
There's bad but perhaps not unexpected news for Tribes 3 Rivals players today as developer Prophecy Games has put out a rather flatly titled...
Amazon Games shares its long focus approach while saying that the Lord of the Rings MMO is ‘not too far away’
It can be pretty easy to assume that the strategy of Amazon Games is to throw handfuls of anything at the wall to see...
Massively Overthinking: How ‘massively multiplayer’ do we expect MMORPGs to be?
Earlier in June on the MOP Podcast, Justin and I took a stab at answering the age-old question of what, exactly, constitutes an MMO....
The virtual Ikea in Roblox is open with 10 virtual employees
So maybe you work at Ikea. We don't judge you. But with the help of Roblox, 10 employees of the company get to work...
Perfect Ten: The MMORPG terms we use but never define, from murderhobo to sandpark
Over in Vague Patch Notes, I have an ongoing series of columns that I describe as being primarily about having useful notes for us...
Pokemon Company’s threat of potential legal action against Palworld appears to have fizzled out
During the height of Palworld's popularity, gamers threw a lot of accusations in the direction of developer Pocket Pair, claiming plagiarism of Pokemon's designs...
Sigh, yes, a man tried to bludgeon another man with a hammer IRL over ArcheAge
File this one under "why we can't have nice things:" Yahoo reported last night that a feud in ArcheAge went way too far, as...
View counts for New World Aeternum’s official announcement trailer see a mysterious spike
A lot of the time, when PR tells us how many views a game gets on YouTube or Twitch, it's an easily ignored metric...
Blue Protocol’s fate up in the air after Bandai Namco Online declares insolvency
It's probably wise for us to severely ratchet down any expectations or hopes of seeing a triumphant release of Blue Protocol in the year...
Anime hero shooter Second Wave and its developer shut down after a disastrous dev cycle
Over the course of last year, we had been reporting on Second Wave, an anime-styled hero shooter MOBA from developer Challengers Games that looked...
Embracer Group talks up aspirations for AI tool integration with a ‘human-centric approach’
Embracer Group would like gamers to remember that it's still pretty villainous. The company's annual report for 2024 is out, and among its colorfully...
Riders of Icarus is shutting down its Southeast Asian servers without any sort of character transfer
There was a time when Riders of Icarus was fine, but everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only replace "when the Fire Nation...
Interview: Bohemia on multiplayer sandbox Ylands’ Switch release, Steam development, and games as a service
A few weeks back, we caught wind of a big change for Bohemia Interactive's cutesy multiplayer pirate sandbox Ylands: It's launching on Switch, but...
Valve faces an $838M UK lawsuit that accuses Steam of overcharging consumers and monopolizing prices
That's right, it looks like another legal firm is hoping to take a big meaty swing at Valve's enormous and probably jowly face: The...
World of Warcraft general manager John Hight leaves Blizzard ‘to explore new opportunities and challenges’
The World of Warcraft team and Blizzard at large has seen another one of its long-standing senior devs leave the company. After 12 years,...
‘I have to run a sustainable business’ – Microsoft’s Phil Spencer addresses layoffs and studio shutdowns
Some new statements out of Microsoft CEO Phil Spencer during this year's IGN Live gaming presentation can be absorbed as either admission of the...
