Black Desert and Ascent Infinite Realm publisher Kakao is investing in esports
Kakao is a massive South Korean company, and as most MMO fans reading blogs probably know, video games are just one element of that...
RuneScape Classic has gone dark, but you can relive its final moments
Crowds of players turned out to mark the final hours of RuneScape Classic yesterday, celebrating the impact that this initial version of the popular...
Hands-on with Monster Hunter World on PC: ‘A quick and dirty port’
So you've probably heard some news about the Monster Hunter World port. PC performance issues, keyboard and mouse issues, random crashing. I wish I could...
The Daily Grind: How do you define ‘hardcore’ gaming?
Quantic Foundry's latest report from its gamer motivation study is well worth your time to read, but for this morning's Daily Grind, I want...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney argues that Fortnite won’t be on the play store because of openness
Did you think that Fortnite's announced decision to avoid the Google Play store was just about money? Just because, you know, that was one...
The 22-year-old Meridian 59 heads to Steam
One of the MMORPG genre's longest-running titles is finally making the jump to Steam in the hopes of picking up a new generation of...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen, Camelot, Codename Reality, and EverFeud (August 5, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen did some just Star Citizen things as fans raised a pay-to-win stink over CIG's lifting of the...
Albion Online’s shift away from mobile was a matter of market forces
If you remember a lot of the early marketing for Albion Online, it focused quite heavily on how the game was going to feature...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained reaches the green fields of beta (August 3, 2018)
Someone break out the "It's Happening" image, because Camelot Unchained has entered its beta testing at long last! Yes, ti may have been delayed...
Vainglory brings its mobile MOBA fun to PC after becoming richer than kings
With so many MOBA games out in the field, it's pretty easy to overlook ones that happen to be on mobile. That would be...
Alarmingly, Fortnite will not be on the Play Store when it launches for Android because money
There were rumors about this, but now it's a known reality. Fortnite will not be launching on the Google Play store when it arrives...
World of Warcraft’s creative director asks players to ‘be patient’ regarding the story
Why do people care so much about the story in World of Warcraft, to the point that they are rioting across social media and...
Steam’s old flash sales might be making a comeback
Years ago, my crew looked forward to Steam sales, not for the insipid minigames but for the flash sales. They constituted a minigame all...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2018: Acti-Blizz sees revenue jump, massive engagement without big releases
Even in a quarter that didn't see a single major product or expansion release, Activision Blizzard made even more money than it did the...
MMO Business Roundup: Steam activity in decline, Sea of Thieves hits 5M players, MapleStory M downloaded 3M times
Time for a quick-and-dirty roundup of some industry news that appeals to the numerologists among our reading audience!
We'll start with a look at Steam,...
Tabloid muckracking, moral panic, and the mainstream media’s fuss over Fortnite coaching
With every huge online game, there's an accompanying rush of mainstream fuss over it - it's in the rules.
For example, Polygon has a piece...
Riot Games continues to tease the possibility of an MMORPG
What is Riot Games up to these days? The League of Legends studio is intentionally stirring up community interest over its future plans, first...
Destiny 2 is offering a $60 ‘Legendary Collection’ all-in-one bundle for Forsaken’s launch
We already knew that Destiny 2's Forsaken expansion is dropping on September 4th, but yesterday, Bungie announced that it's putting out a "Legendary Collection"...
CCP calls NetEase EVE Online partnership a ‘new era for internet spaceships in China’
NetEase is making bold moves this summer. First it threatened to sue battle royale clones in retaliation for PUBG Corp.'s lawsuit. Then it dropped...
‘MMOPEG’ Codename Reality seeks half a million Kickstarter bucks to ‘redefine the MMO genre’
If immersion and realism are what you crave in a new MMORPG, take a look at Codename Reality, another new game in our field...
