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...
Funcom is hiring for the ‘cooperative online shooter’ it teased earlier this year
Remember earlier this year, when Funcom announced in its Q4 2017 financial presentation that its North Carolina branch had greenlit a "cooperative online shooter"...
Star Citizen fans raise pay-to-win objections over removal of in-game currency stockpiling cap
Our inbox exploded last night with Star Citizen tips, and that can mean only one thing: money shenanigans. In-game money, that is, but this...
EA adds new Origin Access premier membership that includes Anthem head start
Do you trust EA with your money? Want to do so on a regular basis? Then you are set up and primed for the...
PvP-centric sub MMO/MOBA hybrid EverFeud has launched its $105K Kickstarter
As we foretold yesterday, the PvP-focused MOBA/MMO hybrid EverFeud has officially launched its Kickstarter today. Developer PSB Entertainment has described the title as a hyper-competitive...
NCsoft is working on an Aion-related ‘next-generation’ MMORPG
No matter what your feelings may be toward NCsoft, it is great to see that the developer and publisher continues to greenlight MMORPGs instead...
The Daily Grind: Are you actually using Steam’s new chat and group features?
Last week, Steam pushed live the changes to its social features it first announced back in June. As we wrote at the time, its...
Monster Hunter World: 8.3M sold, PC performance drag, and Steam data
Capcom has reason to cheer: Monster Hunter World crushed it on PS4. The Japanese publisher's latest revenue report shows that the game sold 8.3...
Gigantic’s last matches are now playing out ahead of tomorrow’s sunset
There will be no stay of execution for the gorgeous MOBA Gigantic, as PWE has put up a countdown clock for the game's final...
Diablo franchise history book Stay Awhile and Listen nears the end of its Kickstarter
Has it really been a month since we covered Stay Awhile and Listen, the second volume in David Craddock's history of Blizzard's development of...
PvP-centric sub-based MMO/MOBA hybrid EverFeud launches Kickstarter tomorrow
Gotta love a friendly tweet in the morning that reminds me about a game I'd forgotten about! I'm talking about EverFeud, a game we...
Chinese MMO company NetEase invests $50M into SpatialOS MMO platform
Improbable's SpatialOS is moving on up in the world: The company announced this week that China's NetEase has invested $50 million to acquire a...
PUBG’s Brendan Greene discusses Steam numbers, Fortnite, and dealing with toxicity
PUBG's Brendan Greene did an interesting interview with RPS last week with some quotes worth highlighting. For starters, he has an interesting take on the...
The Daily Grind: Do you care more about an MMORPG’s playerbase or revenue?
SuperData put out a couple of reports and analyses last week that suggest Fortnite is "cannibalizing" other games, specifically in terms of revenue and...
God Eater Online is shutting down in September
Sadly, it does not seem that God Eater Online really talks much about the experience of turning deific entities into snacks. If you were...
Make My MMO: Camelot’s beta one, Fractured’s successful Kickstarter (July 29, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, anti-grind, PvP-optional MMO sandbox Fractured became the biggest traditional MMORPG to fund on Kickstarter this year (Temtem pulled in more cash...
