Interview: ArtCraft’s J. Todd Coleman on prepping Crowfall’s Artisan Engine for the broader industry
Yesterday, Crowfall studio ArtCraft announced it was spinning off a brand-new company dubbed ArtCraft Technologies that would basically turn Crowfall's engine into a marketable...
Perfect World updates its Arc client with new features
You may or may not use the Perfect World Entertainment Arc launcher to play games like Neverwinter and Champions Online. There are lots of...
Game Workers Unite condemns ArenaNet for Guild Wars 2 developer firings
Grassroots advocacy group Game Workers Unite posted a statement on Pricegate today, "emphatically denouncing" ArenaNet for firing Guild Wars 2's Jessica Price and Peter...
The ESA claims crunch issues in the industry have been declining over the past decade
Crunch - the act of putting in way too much overtime to get a video game completed and out the door - is a...
LawBreakers helped kill The Amazing Eternals during testing
The death of The Amazing Eternals partway through its testing was a shock for numerous fans, all of whom were looking forward to the...
IGDA calls for transparent guidelines on game studio social media and harassment following Guild Wars 2 dust-up
Regardless of who you believe had the right and wrong of the ArenaNet Twitter fiasco last week, game developers have expressed concern over the...
Crowfall studio ArtCraft spins off new company to license its MMORPG-oriented Artisan Engine
Well now things just got interesting over in the land of Kickstarted Crowfall. ArtCraft announced this morning that it's spinning off a "new division" called...
Overwatch players raised almost $13M to fight breast cancer in ‘Pink Mercy’ campaign
Remember last spring when Blizzard ran that big "Pink Mercy" charity campaign in Overwatch? The company's run the numbers, and it turns out Overwatch...
Titanfall Online is over before it had even begun
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...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG deserves way more hype than it gets?
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)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, the Kickstarter MMO crowd held its breath to find out whether or not Camelot Unchained would indeed make its...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained has to delay that beta (July 6, 2018)
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
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
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
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,...
Twitch is cracking down on high-profile streamers using inappropriate language
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...
The Daily Grind: How early should an MMORPG’s hype cycle begin?
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
Please note that this article has been heavily updated over the last week as this story has continued developing. New additions are at the...
It’s starting to look like Valve is trying to murder SteamSpy on purpose
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
The battle of the trolls in the Star Citizen community reached new lows this week as someone apparently impersonated a former dev on Glassdoor...
