Gigantic developer Motiga lays off roughly a fifth of its employees
It seems fair to say that Gigantic's development has had a troubled history, what with the game having hopped publishers, changed platforms, and seen...
Virtual reality MMO OrbusVR has launched a one-week Kickstarter campaign
A week ago, we told you about OrbusVR, a full-scale VR MMORPG built for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift -- and today, the...
Riot Games wins $10M in a lawsuit against League of Legend cheating software
At least today, cheating does not prosper, particularly for those who attempted to circumvent the rules in League of Legends.
A court awarded $10 million...
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s crafting, RUiN’s Kickstarter, Ashes of Creation’s gameplay (March 4, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, we sent MOP's Matt Daniel into Crowfall, from which he emerged with many opinions on the state of the game's...
Betawatch: Robocraft hits beta testing (March 3, 2017)
Life is weird. You would think that once Robocraft was a thing I would never have played anything else, simply because it's a game...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Earthtear Cavern home will be buyable next week
Fans of The Elder Scrolls Online's Homestead housing will probably want to take a peek at the coming-soon announcement for the cash shop, which...
Niantic cracks down on third-party sales in Ingress
Stop cheating, you cheating cheaters, or else we're gonna take your stuff.
That's the gist of the message out of Niantic this week to Ingress...
ARK Survival Evolved rolls back official servers following Amazon outage
Did Amazon's Web Services outage on Wednesday wreck your day? It wrecked a lot of the internet, including ARK: Survival Evolved, which uses the...
MMO publisher Gamigo buys MMOGames.com
What happens when a global publisher of MMORPGs acquires an MMO news site? We're about to find out, as the Gamigo Group announced that...
Oculus drops the price of its VR headset to $499
Do you know people who would love to hook themselves up with VR headsets but balk a bit at the price? Oculus is making...
Pokemon Go: 650M downloads, update cadence, and Ingress 2.0
There's lots going on with Pokemon Go right now, thanks in part to the official Pokemon Day that kicked off the week. Here's a...
Take a peek at the first 15 mods being funded through ARK: Survival Evolved’s new creator program
Earlier this week, Studio Wildcard teased its new paid modding program for ARK: Survival Evolved, and now it's released more details as part of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 106: Ready to relaunch
Justin and Bree discuss The Secret World's relaunch, Landmark's sunset, ESO: Morrowind, Albion Online, Guild Wars 2, Ship of Heroes, and Champions Online, with a mailbag questions on ESO and multiplayer immersion.
Exclusive: Indie sandbox El Somni Quas has been ‘rebuilt from scratch’
Over the last few months, we've published several exclusive dev diaries from El Somni Quas, an indie sandbox from a Czech studio that cut...
EVE Online saw big bump in players and profits in 2016
Don't count EVE Online as over and out just yet. The long-running space sandbox reported a remarkably good year for 2016, posting an increase...
ARK: Survival Evolved rockets up Superdata’s January revenue rankings
The latest Superdata Research report is in for the month of January 2017, and in addition to an increase of 9.8% of digital game...
The Daily Grind: Is an MMO still an MMO if it lacks chat?
In the comments of Andrew's last Soapbox on whether or not Pokemon Go properly constitutes an MMO, veteran MMORPG designer Raph Koster argued provocatively against...
Nexon invests money into IMC Games as part of Tree of Savior mobile partnership
Nexon has made a "strategic investment" into Korea-based IMC Games, the companies announced in a press release this morning. IMC Games is known to MMO...
Funcom is ‘relaunching’ The Secret World in 2017, but it’s maintenance mode for Anarchy Online and Age of Conan
Funcom's fourth quarter 2016 financial report for investors landed this afternoon, and it's a doozy, especially for MMORPG players. Of most interest is the...
Make My MMO: The Exiled arrives to mixed reviews on Steam (February 25, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, The Exiled was released to the wilds of Steam early access. Formerly called Das Tal, the buy-to-play indie sandbox attempted to...