ARK Survival Evolved is nuking low pop servers in just one week
ARK Survival Evolved is gearing up for launch, finally, which means it's now beginning to shelve some of the low pop servers across all...
Dauntless holds AMA covering free-to-play, Steam, wipes, and Monster Hunter Online
Yesterday afternoon, the 40-odd-member Phoenix Labs team held a Reddit AMA on Dauntless. Let's run down the highlights!
There are no hard dates attached...
Ghost in the Shell Online will close on December 6 in North America
So, remember how Ghost in the Shell Online announced it was shuttering in Japan without announcing that it was also shuttering in North America?...
Leaderboard: Do the HTC Vive’s and Oculus Rift’s price cuts change your opinion on VR pricing?
When Oculus dropped the price of the Oculus Rift down to $400 earlier this summer, supposedly temporarily (but not its first drop), analysts were...
ARK won’t be featuring console crossplay any time soon
Friends and family separated by gaming platforms won't be coming together for a joyous reunion any time soon if they're playing ARK: Survival Evolved.
Crossplay...
Path of Exile debuts in China, teases next expansion for December
First it was the launch of its nest expansion, The Fall of Oriath. Then it was its launch on the Xbox One. And now...
SkySaga shuts down production and goes on hold indefinitely
Very sad news today out of Radiant Worlds, which announced that Smilegate, its publishing partner, ordered that SkySaga's development be shut down immediately and pulled...
The Daily Grind: Do MMORPG studios worry too much about player retention?
Back in March, we used a Richard Bartle blog post to discuss retention in MMOs and how developers could up their stickiness factor. But in...
Xbox One X announces ‘select enhanced titles’ that include many online games
At its pre-Gamescom press conference this Sunday, Microsoft revealed more about its upcoming Xbox One X and its glorious 4K gaming capabilities. As part...
Conan Exiles is getting a retail box release
Just in case you weren't clear on the point that Funcom considers Conan Exiles to be the wave of the company's future, this should...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained is rapidly approaching beta (August 18, 2017)
The wait for the Camelot Unchained beta has been long and arduous in the way that only "just sit around and wait" can possibly...
Black Desert parent corporation is merging all its game businesses
MMORPG players know Kakao chiefly as the publishing and localization giant behind Pearl Abyss-developed Black Desert, but over in its native South Korea, the...
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds whupped League of Legends on Twitch last week
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds may have one of the worst video game names in history, but it set a new record on Twitch last week.
Gameloco founder...
Young adults are the prime market for virtual reality
It's a well-known maxim in gaming circles that younger players have more time but lack disposable income while older players have the money but...
Elite: Dangerous has passed 2.75 million sales
Good news for the Elite: Dangerous crew; according to the Frontier Developments Twitter account, Elite: Dangerous and the Horizons expansion have passed a grand...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 131: Just surviving
Justin and Bree cover Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire, LOTRO's Mordor, Final Fantasy XIV's playerbase, Dual Universe's investment, and NCsoft's financials, then interview H1Z1: Just Survive Creative Director Ben Jones.
PUBG and TERA dev house Bluehole denies that Tencent has invested in it
Tencent is sprinkling more money around: Yicai Global and Gamasutra are reporting that the Chinese conglom has invested money into South Korea's Bluehole Studio....
Johnny Depp will produce a TV show based on The Secret World
Your eyes aren't deceiving you, though I did a double-take too: Deadline is reporting that The Secret World aka Secret World Legends is getting a...
Blizzard has decided to keep Battlenet around after all
Remember last September when Blizzard said it would be "transitioning away from using the Battle.net name" for the "central nervous system for Blizzard games"?...
Korea’s FTC to investigate Blizzard’s StarCraft: Remastered hourly fees
The Korean StarCraft community is up in arms this week over Blizzard's rerelease of the game -- more specifically, its plan to effectively double-dip...