Fntastic pulls the plug on Escape Factory crowdfunding, shifts instead to another prop hunt game
If we're all very honest, the crowdfunding drive for The Day Before developer Fntastic's obstacle course platformer Escape Factory was very likely never going...
So now we know: Dauntless dev Phoenix Labs was bought out by a blockchain company last year
Back in 2023, we were dismayed at the news that Dauntless and Fae Farm studio Phoenix Labs was being crushed with a nasty round...
One week into Aeternum, how is New World doing? Here’s what we know
Let's take stock of New World Aeternum one week into launch, shall we? Or at least of what we can know for sure, which...
NCsoft Korea confirms restructure and layoffs, renames Throne & Liberty team to Studio X
Last night, we covered the disturbing industry news that NCsoft was planning a major restructure of its Korean branch owing to the long-obvious fact...
NCsoft Korea is reportedly restructuring after multiple weak revenue quarters
Korean media is reporting bad news for NCsoft, or at least fans of the company's developers and games.
Seoul-based Yonhap News has a long piece...
Hi-Rez’s Realm Royale Reforged and Divine Knockout will be sunsetting in February
The top of October spelled some worrisome portents for Hi-Rez studios as the company announced layoffs as well as team reductions for the original...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen opens CitizenCon, Fractured eyes F2P, Fractured Veil and Shadow’s Kiss sunset
Star Citizen's CitizenCon event kicked off this morning under a cloud of drama as backers tuned in to see where the game and S42...
Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42
The news that Star Citizen studio CIG forced developers to give up two weekends in order to make CitizenCon happen - followed by a...
SAG-AFTRA union agrees to resume negotiations with game companies, but strikes and picketing continue
Video game voice over artists who are members of the SAG-AFTRA union have been on strike against game companies since July as game studios...
So apparently the PlanetSide IP’s new owner is a private equity firm named Astrapto Capital
Let me provide some context for this post: At the top of 2024, Enad Global 7, which owns Daybreak and whose top execs came...
Three-year-old New World is labeling new non-Aeternum PC player reviews as ‘pre-release’
Amazon's MMORPG New World launched back in 2021 with almost a million concurrent players on PC through Steam. I was there. You were there....
New World Aeternum, still an MMORPG but now on console, has officially launched
This it it folks: The Europe and Oceania New World servers opened up in the wee hours of this morning, and now at 9...
Microsoft is sunsetting multiplayer functionality for Age of Empires 3’s classic version
So we have some good news and some bad news about multiplayer RTS Age of Empires 3. Let's do the bad news first: It's...
Star Trek Online ends grandfathered subscriptions – in exchange for free lifetime memberships
As if the news of Cryptic's mass layoffs and de facto demise this week wasn't news enough, now Star Trek Online's new caretakers appear...
Class action complaint alleges Ubisoft unlawfully shares personal information with Facebook
By now we're all pretty familiar with the option to log in to alternate platforms and websites through accounts like Google, Steam, and Facebook,...
Roblox Corp denies short-seller’s report that it lies to investors and hosts ‘a pedophile hellscape’
The dark clouds that hang over Roblox have been well-documented by us for quite some time, but now there's a damning new report from...
Apex Legends gets transparent about drop rates in response to a recent South Korean gaming law amendment
It's a generally widely understood assumption that items are made rare purely because the drop rate numbers are fudged by game studios, but players...
Tarisland lays out its philosophy for seasons ahead of Blight Dragon Elegy
With Tarisland's Blight Dragon Elegy launching later in October (no, we still don't know which day, bizarrely), Tencent is deep-diving what players can expect...
Perfect Ten: The complete list of CCP’s weird EVE Online projects and offshoots
CCP Games, like some other studios we could mention, seems to be a place where the team got one very successful MMO off the...
Embracer-owned Cryptic Studios will suffer devastating layoffs at the end of October
We've been keeping a very worried eye on Cryptic Studios for the last year or so, ever since it became clear that the floundering...
