Leaderboard: Is Steam Direct’s developer fee too high?
Back in February, Valve announced that it would be sunsetting Steam Greenlight and replacing it with a new platform called Steam Direct, which would...
Shroud of the Avatar’s Richard Garriott on launch and philosophy following equity crowdfunding announcement
Last week during its seasonal telethon, Shroud of the Avatar's lead developers surprised watchers by announcing an equity crowdfunding campaign that allows players and...
Amazon Game Studios grabs H1Z1’s art director
Amazon Game Studios continues to lure talented developers away for its new multiplayer projects. Sebastian Strzalkowski became the latest to defect to the new...
Rumor: Aeria Games no longer publishing Bless Online for western audiences
Rumors are flying this morning that Aeria Games has been dismissed as the western Bless Online publisher. MMORPG.com reports that it received "fairly substantial...
Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation’s Kickstarter, Shroud of the Avatar’s equity crowdfund (June 3, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Ashes of Creation's Kickstarter came to a close with $3.2M and nearly 20,000 backers, making it the biggest MMORPG Kickstarter...
Kickstarter to take no action on Ashes of Creation’s campaign following referral program confusion
Last weekend, we ran an article covering PC Gamer's detailed investigation into Ashes of Creation's pledge system. At the time, PC Gamer's Steven Messner wrote...
Betawatch: Master x Master sets a launch for this month (June 2, 2017)
No to worry, ladies and gentlemen, your long Master x Master-less nightmare is almost over. The game has officially announced a full launch on...
Massively Overthinking: 2017’s MMORPG zeitgeist
This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...
Ashes of Creation’s Kickstarter has successfully funded at $3.27M
Ashes of Creation's Kickstarter has successfully funded this morning, bringing in a grand total of $3,271,809Â US out of its $750,000 goal with almost 20,000...
Colony MMO Seed secures additional funding
Last week we reported that Klang Games is making an interesting-looking colony survival game called Seed that is utilizing SpatialOS to create this expansive...
Habitat is back online in a museum
If you're not familiar with Habitat, that's understandable, but you can catch up on the history of the title with our own column on...
Ryzom transitions to a freemium business model
As of May 31st, Ryzom (formerly Saga of Ryzom) has transitioned into a slightly different business model that will take a little explaining.
Essentially, the...
League of Legends NA e-sports league reorg means $75K pro player salaries, revenue sharing, and player association
Riot Games is in the midst of a major reorganization of its League of Legends e-sports organization, at least in North America. The company...
Guild Wars 2 signs on Wizards of the Coast dev as narrative designer
What is Wizards of the Coast's loss is ArenaNet's gain.
Michael Yichao announced on Twitter yesterday that he was leaving the Dungeons & Dragons company...
Shroud of the Avatar makes $2M equity crowdfunding pitch, plans 2017 launch
Shroud of the Avatar's Summer Telethon concluded last night, having raised from players $115,000 and unlocking multiple stretch goal rewards for players, including balloons...
‘Summer of SWTOR’ brings back the MMORPG
Squeaking in just under the wire for the dev team's promised May delivery date, Star Wars: The Old Republic published its (remaining) 2017 roadmap yesterday. The...
Black Desert sells over 127,000 copies on Steam, adds three new servers with today’s patch
The first MMO hit of the summer is already upon us, as Black Desert's debut on Steam has paid off in dividends. Thanks to...
Grim Dawn sells 1M copies, previews Inquisitor class
While you've been off playing other games, Grim Dawn has become a sleeper hit in the ARPG community. The dark game just announced its...
Echo of Soul and the order of the Phoenix update
For a game that once promised it would provide "everything an MMO player could want," Echo of Soul hasn't exactly toppled popular culture and...
A UK university will offer e-sports business coursework, and this is a truly good thing
Most of the people playing e-sports are exceptional gamers, and to get that good at anything, you miss out on a whole bunch of...
