Industry

When Google first announced Stadia this past spring, promising it would "revolutionize" the industry, our readers were skeptical. And now that we know much...

Yesterday, we covered the news that Bless Online was sunsetting in Japan, leading many of us to wonder whether the Steam version live in...

I've been thinking a lot about esports lately. This is not actually something I like to think about, mind you; my general attitude toward esports...

It seems weird to be writing about Trion Worlds again, but here we are. MMO players will recall that back in 2015, three gamers...

Last month, PC Gamer ran a piece about Anthem and EA focusing on EA's belief that the way the industry goes about releasing games...

Last month I saw a video from YouTuber Josh Strife Hayes with an eyebrow-raiser of a thesis: He essentially argues that we have too...

Let's say that there's a mobile game you really want to play, but you don't like playing on your phone and said phone is...

Thank goodness it's a sunny day out there because Strauss Zelnick brought some serious shade for the industry to Baird's 2019 Global Consume, Technology,...

It looks like yet another version of Bless Online is calling it quits, as the Japanese server admins announced yesterday it'll close down that...

Back in March (which somehow feels like a hundred years ago?), Google announced Google Stadia - not a console but a platform that will...

Add another game to Blizzard's development graveyard. According to Gamespot, the World of Warcraft studio decided to cancel an unannounced game project that has been...

One of my favorite MMO stories is how I got into Black Desert in the first place. It was right after I tried out...

April showers bring May flowers, but big-hearted gamers bring forth good deeds any month of the year! And May was no different. Generosity with...

Our days of playing the fun "who's buying Nexon this week" game are quickly coming to a middle as apparently the auction has finally...

It's sort of been a longstanding truism, especially for MMOs, that you can't build a game worth playing in a short length of time....

Remember just last week when the commissioner of Overwatch's premiere and eponymous league left his position? That alone was a bit of a surprise, but...

A few weeks ago we teased newly announced MMO Eternal Magic for offering a beauty contest "for the girls," which, OK, we all know...

Gosh, every so often you just get a big surprise like Starbase, which came out of nowhere this week to just drop onto the scene...

Microsoft seems to be branching out with its game distribution policies, as it announced this week that it will be working to make more...

There's a special place in my heart for lootboxes and exploitative monetization, and that place is somewhere below the revulsion I feel for Martin...