Skull and Bones is now targeting February 2024 for its launch following eleventy billion delays
Insider Gaming is reporting that Ubisoft has finally narrowed down Skull and Bones' launch date to February 16th, 2024. And believe it or not,...
Unity ejects Weta Digital from its portfolio and lays off 265 more employees
In the frantic race to the bottom in 2023, Unity is pushing hard to cross the finish line first. The former game engine darling...
Sony Interactive Entertainment and NCsoft announce a ‘strategic’ partnership
What exactly are Sony Interactive Entertainment and NCsoft doing together? Painting each others' nails? Plotting the destruction of their most hated of all animals,...
Quantic Foundry’s survey examines the motivations of gamers drawn to sci-fi settings
Quantic Foundry - aka the Nick Yee-backed analytics company that's most well-known for its Gamer Motivation Model - has shared some responses from an...
Diablo IV receives a sudden wave of positive reviews on Steam by suspected bot accounts
There are some strange things going on at the Steam page of Diablo IV. According to the eagle eye of a Redditor by the...
CCP Games’ EVE Online-adjacent blockchain game Project Awakening confirms a December 6 playtest
Back in March we reported that CCP Games had begun development of Project Awakening, a blockchain game set within the EVE Online universe. The...
Pantheon influencers show off pre-alpha MMORPG footage as Visionary Realms loses a marketing staffer
Is Visionary Realms attempting to staunch the bleeding of player trust, or this all just part of an existing plan? That's certainly up for...
Vague Patch Notes: The myth of the ‘first’ MMORPG
One of the things I like to joke about every so often is various myths about the history of MMOs, and a lot of...
Marvel Snap’s publisher is shutting down but developer says the TCG will ‘continue to operate and flourish’
ByteDance, the Chinese company responsible for the TikTok app, has decided that entering the gaming market is not going to work out after all....
WoW Factor: Fine, let’s talk about Blizzard being dumb with early access
All right, let's get it over with.
I didn't really want to write this column, not because I didn't think there was anything to talk...
MMO Business Roundup: NetEase’s Worlds Untold, Embracer, Ubisoft, unionization, and Epic v. Google
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry and business news. Numbers numbers numbers!
NetEase - The Chinese megacorp NetEase just can't...
Destiny 2 peak player concurrency hits a new all-time low on Steam
Bungie has already acknowledged the deep player disappointment in Destiny 2, but now we're all able to see at least a part of that...
Make My MMO: Project Gorgon rebounds, Pantheon regroups
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks!
Pantheon has fully backtracked on its plans to launch the 247 extraction...
EG7 Q3 2023: Daybreak’s MMO revenues dip ahead of Q4 expansion deluge
Daybreak parent company Enad Global 7 has released its Q3 2023 financial report this week, and it's good for the company, if weaker for...
Perfect Ten: Classic video games that would make terrible MMORPGs
There was a time when MMORPGs were all based on existing storied single-player RPG franchises, and that time was when Ultima Online launched and...
The next PAX East is scheduled for March 21 to 24 in 2024
It would behoove someone to make sure that PAX as a convention is not run by Dracula from Castlevania. It's basically the same thing,...
Amazon Games is hit with another round of layoffs, but the MMORPGs are not affected
Amazon Games is queueing up its second layoff of the year: According to Aftermath, the company has laid off another 180 games workers, adding...
NetEase secures new trademark for Sword of Justice, aka the wuxia MMORPG Justice Online
Perhaps there's some market in our corner of the globe that's hungry for a wuxia-styled MMORPG, or perhaps NetEase is hungry for that western...
Blizzard’s art savant Samwise Didier is retiring after more than three decades at the studio
Thirty-two years is a heckuva run at any studio, especially when you've been one of the artistic inspirations for some of that studio's most...
Betawatch: The Wagadu Chronicles heads to early access on December 4
It's happening, folks: The Wagadu Chronicles is heading into early access on December 4th, just like the headline says. That means you'll get your...
