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...
Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss prepares IPO in Korea
Multiple Korean outlets are reporting that Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss is preparing an initial public offering and seeks a fall listing on the Korean stock...
The final PlayStation 3 has rolled off of the assembly lines
So long to the PlayStation 3, it seems; after a decade of manufacturing, the final edition of the console has been made, and the...
David Brevik says Hellgate London was ‘a game ahead of its time’
If you were harboring some sort of secret hope that David Brevik would return to the battered and bruised Hellgate London to realize its...
Make My MMO: Legends of Aria’s alpha, Ashes of Creation’s lofty ambitions (May 27, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Legends of Aria -- which we'll probably never stop accidentally calling Shards Online -- began its alpha, introducing testers and...
Betawatch: Shot Online Golf is hosting its first beta test (May 26, 2017)
Golf! It's technically a sport, but it's mostly a waste of space and resources under the guise of one. Rather than actually wasting water,...
SuperData April 2017: Smooth sailing for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Hearthstone
SuperData's April worldwide digital video games market summary has arrived, and with it we get a glimpse into the top gaming studios. And only...
How Overwatch was born in the ashes of Blizzard’s Project Titan MMO
A new piece out on the PlayStation blog is picking at MMO players' Project Titan scar.
Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan explains that after the seven-year Project...
Wild West Online addresses Sergey Titov rumors [Updated]
Rumors spread on Reddit yesterday suggesting that Sergey Titov is involved in Wild West Online have been partially but not fully debunked. Titov, you'll recall, was...
Black Desert leaps to Steam today, launches the Striker class, and bans exploiters
It's a huge day for Black Desert fans! Not only is the game launching on Steam later today (the splash page is up, just...
World of Tanks apologizes for threatening to censor YouTuber
World of Tanks developer Wargaming has apologized for essentially threatening to abuse YouTube's copyright law to retaliate against an unpaid promotional partner who published a video...
The jury is out on whether or not DOTA 2 actually belongs to Valve
It's not very interesting to see a big company take knockoff companies to court to argue that the knockoff companies are violating intellectual property....
