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Titanfall Online is over before it had even begun

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Korean website Game Focus is reporting today that Titanfall Online has effectively been canceled. As Kotaku notes, EA and Nexon have been working on the...
GOrging.

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG deserves way more hype than it gets?

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According to Friday's Daily Grind on hype cycles, a lot of folks think they begin way too early for most games. But what about...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained’s crash rate is coming down (July 7, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, the Kickstarter MMO crowd held its breath to find out whether or not Camelot Unchained would indeed make its...
My authority as principal is total.

Betawatch: Camelot Unchained has to delay that beta (July 6, 2018)

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It's important to note that however frustrated you might be about the fact that Camelot Unchained had to delay its long-awaited beta, the developers...

Women In Games report suggests strategies to promote gender diversity in e-sports

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The subject of gender imbalance in gaming, especially in professional e-sports, and how to rectify it has been a matter of debate within gaming...

Todd Howard says ‘Elder Scrolls Online is one of the biggest online games in the world’ as Ubisoft and Bethsoft weigh in on games as a service

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Are you all in on games as a service? Are single player-games over, replaced by much more profitable eternally online (and lockbox-ridden) titles? Bethsoft's...

Pokemon Go’s second anniversary report card sees high marks for content and innovation

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Today is Pokemon Go's second-year anniversary. Last year's report card had to grapple with things like the game's rapid rise and fall as a fad,...
Go away.

Twitch is cracking down on high-profile streamers using inappropriate language

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Twitch is working overtime by going after big-name streamers who use inappropriate language in chat. The platform's community policies have landed popular streamer Destiny...
Oh gosh why.

The Daily Grind: How early should an MMORPG’s hype cycle begin?

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GIbiz put out an interesting piece this week looking 10 years into the past to see where the buzz was in the game industry...

ArenaNet has let go two Guild Wars 2 devs following a heated Twitter confrontation

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Please note that this article has been heavily updated over the last week as this story has continued developing. New additions are at the...
No, you can't be quite this evil.

It’s starting to look like Valve is trying to murder SteamSpy on purpose

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Back in April, Valve announced new supposedly privacy-oriented changes for Steam that had what everyone assumed to be an unintended (and unannounced) side-effect: It...

Former Star Citizen dev refutes fake Glassdoor review made by troll on his behalf

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The battle of the trolls in the Star Citizen community reached new lows this week as someone apparently impersonated a former dev on Glassdoor...

Richard Garriott rejects idea that Shroud of the Avatar is a ‘flop’, says the game will run ‘forever’

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Shroud of the Avatar has long been an odd bird in the MMORPG crowdfunding space. Driven by the eccentric Richard Garriott, it raised large...

Conan Exiles has set another Funcom record, announces Jewel of the West DLC and patch

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Funcom's fortunes continue to rise thanks to Conan Exiles: The company announced today that it's "both the best-selling and fastest-selling game" in its history,...

Ashes of Creation claims it’s ‘now among the largest MMOs in production’

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Ashes of Creation claims it's "now among the largest MMOs in production" thanks to the addition of a large crew of new hires and...
Because the franchise is being brought back from the dead, you see.

Stay Awhile And Listen II is on Kickstarter covering the development of Diablo II

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Would it be wrong to call Diablo II the most influential sequel ever? Maybe. But it undoubtedly had a huge impact on the game...

Journalists and academics clash over the World Health Organization’s ‘gaming disorder’ classification

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Ever since the World Health Organization decided it will include its "gaming disorder" classification in its upcoming disease classification manual revision, game journalists, mainstream...

MMO business roundup: Virtual reality, Niantic, WoW emu hacking, and what Google’s up to

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We've got some MMO industry topics you shouldn't miss, so welcome back to our MMO business roundup! • Last week, Pokemon Go company Niantic previewed...

Warner Bros. denies wrongdoing in Bethsoft’s Fallout Shelter/Westworld copyright lawsuit

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Last week, we reported on an emerging lawsuit lodged over the new Westworld mobile game. Bethsoft is suing Behaviour Interactive and Warner Bros. over what it...
This is someone else's problem.

France’s gambling authority condemns but does not ban lockboxes

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The international community is becoming aware of the problems of lootboxes, and that means that laws are being formed in response to the business...

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