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Nexon is shutting down its multiplayer medieval war game Warhaven in April

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You may not have thought much about Warhaven this week prior to reading our PvP columnist Sam Kash's take on the game's current state...

EVE Online’s board game Kickstarter is live – and it met its funding goal in under an hour

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Apparently there are plenty of EVE Online fans who would like the board game version of the spaceship sandbox to be a thing. Yesterday...
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The Final Fantasy XIV live-action TV series is apparently dead in the water

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Remember that talk about adapting Final Fantasy XIV into a live-action television series? No, not the Dad of Light series that included FFXIV as...
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Microsoft lays off 1900 workers: Blizzard sheds Mike Ybarra, its survival game, and its customer support in one day

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We've updated this story at the bottom with some of the latest news that has come forth about the scope of the layoffs and...

The Day Before studio claims to be the target of misinformation and a hate campaign

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When Fntastic's survival shooter The Day Before officially shut down its servers, we had assumed it would be the last headline to come out...

SoulWorker hands publishing duties off to Valofe ‘for its continued enhancement and maintenance’

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SoulWorker is another one of those action MMOs that has had a history of being passed about more frequently than a football: The game's...

ArenaNet opens up more job postings for Guild Wars 2 and its still-developing unannounced project

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In a month where we saw multiple gaming and tech companies kick employees to the curb, we're going to offer a puff of fresh...

The British Army apparently abruptly scuttled its new recruitment game in Fortnite

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Games as military recruitment tools aren't entirely new to readers here, primarily in the case of the official US Army FPS series America's Army,...

Riot Games laid off over 500 people last night, and no we don’t know what it means for the Riot MMO

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Riot Games is joining the seemingly endless list of game studios continuing to dump workers overboard: Last night, the company announced it is shedding...

Embers Adrift and Monsters & Memories devs come together to talk indie MMORPG devlopment

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This week saw the developers of two classically styled MMORPGs come together to talk shop, as Monsters & Memories creative director and producer Shawn...

Bethesda begins to roll out Elder Scrolls Castles, its latest Elder Scrolls mobile game

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Elder Scrolls Online players looking to take their gaming addiction on the go have a good cause to rejoice this week, as Bethesda surprised...

GDC’s 2024 industry survey: Game devs weigh in on AI, layoffs, unionization, RTO, and more

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Every year, GDC conducts an industry-wide survey of game developers and compiles the results in its State of the Game Industry, the 2024 edition...
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Vague Patch Notes: What City of Heroes Homecoming means for the wider MMORPG industry

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As you have probably noticed from the fact that I have been writing about City of Heroes nonstop since the Homecoming server got its...
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Baldur’s Gate 3 boss pushes back against the industry’s renewed ambition over games subscription models

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This week offered another example of executive foot-in-mouth disorder when Ubisoft director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay suggested in an interview that games subscription business...

Guild Wars 2 studio says no accounts involved in new social engineering claim were compromised by CS

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The Guild Wars 2 Reddit community has been up in arms this week over a gigantic thread started by former ArenaNet partner and content...

Epic and Apple appeals are rejected by the Supreme Court, making the original 2021 ruling final

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The past few years' worth of gaming news have been something of a whirlwind to say the least, so let us take a moment...

Ubisoft talks up its subscription services and making gamers ‘comfortable’ with not owning titles

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Allow us a moment to lean back in our rocking chair, coddle a cup of sarsaparilla, and look up at the sky as we...

Star Citizen’s CIG was hit with a measly $190 fine for… not filing its 2022 financial report on time

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"If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class," so sayeth the meme, and that...

Make My MMO: MMO crowdfunding at the top of 2024, from Ashes to Zenith

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Welcome to our very first Make My MMO of 2024! When we last checked in on the crowdfunded games of our genre, we were...
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Betawatch: SMITE 2 encourages you to smite what has already been smitten

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So, who had SMITE 2 on their watchlists for this year? Probably not many people, but Hi-Rez Studios has announced that the game is...