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Amazon Game Studios gave John Smedley a new online game team to run

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If you wondered what John Smedley was up to following the death of Pixelmage Games and Hero's Song in December, now you have an...
Very convincing.

WildStar buffs its subscription rewards program

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Carbine Studios reeeeaaaally wants to make it worth your while to subscribe to WildStar. It already has a "signature rewards" program for subbers that...

Elite Dangerous halts sales of standalone Arena product

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At the tail end of last week, Frontier pulled Elite Dangerous: Arena from sale across all platforms. "We’ve been looking at our metrics which suggest...

The Daily Grind: Do you ever play MMORPGs against ‘type’?

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Perhaps owing at least in part to the charisma of its chief executive, Camelot Unchained is one of those rare in-production MMORPGs that seems...

Elder Scrolls Online now boasts 8.5M players

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At a press event today at ZeniMax Online Studios HQ, Elder Scrolls Online's Matt Firor announced something we rarely get out of any MMORPG...
TUG

What in the world happened to TUG?

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TUG, better known as The Untitled Game, burst onto the scene in May of 2013 with a Kickstarter, which didn't elicit the same groans...

Five reasons behind the failure of Hero’s Song

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In July of 2015, MMORPG fans were stunned to hear that John Smedley was stepping down from his post as president of Daybreak. After...

League of Legends data feature in New York state lawsuit against Time Warner

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Remember back in the day when you'd complain about your lag and connectivity issues in an online game, only to have the studio tell...

Obsidian hands off Armored Warfare to My.com

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Obsidian Entertainment has gotten out of the tank business, as the developer announced that it has handed off Armored Warfare in its entirety to...

The Daily Grind: Where are all the sports-themed MMORPGs?

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On those rare occasions when we mention EA's FIFA series, usually relating to court cases over online gambling, I'm always struck again by how...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained, Mekria, TUG, and more (February 11, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowfunding was... well, it was a big week for gaming in general, and Kickstarted games rose to the challenge! In fact,...

Shards Online plans wipe, drops NDA ahead of impending Steam launch

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Shards Online's latest newsletter is homing in on the game's Steam launch. The game hit always-on alpha back in January, but now it's eyeing...
IT'S FUN TO CHARTER AN ACCOUNTANT

Black Desert’s western launch helped Kakao’s games division have a great 2016

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Kakao is a major company in South Korea with over 5000 employees and its fingers in many pies, from a major instant messaging app...

Valve sunsets Steam Greenlight, proposes dev submission fees to ‘decrease the noise’

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Valve is determined to keep itself in the news this weekend, apparently: Yesterday, the company announced it's shutting down the Steam Greenlight platform. That's...
Not to be confused with BreakLawyers. That's a whole different game from the start.

Nexon Q4 2016 financials down slightly QoQ and YoY, 2017 LawBreakers launch planned

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Nexon released its Q4 2016 and full-year 2016 financial results today, painting a mixed picture for the quarter and year: Revenues are down slightly...
And this time, we mean it.

Betawatch: Albion Online prepares for Sir Galahad the Patchly (February 10, 2017)

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The extended beta for Albion Online gives the developers time to add more to the game. For example, when the Galahad patch goes live,...

Valve is working on three VR titles, feeling effects of travel ban

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Valve's Gabe Newell and Erik Johnson have confirmed that the company is working on a trio of VR-centric games, not cheapie experiments but full-scale...

Activision-Blizzard Q4 2016: Record quarter for Blizzard thanks to World of Warcraft and Overwatch

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Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financial reports have gotten boring since the companies decided to stop reporting World of Warcraft subscribers in 2015, am I right? But in...

Mekria Online cancels its $110K Kickstarter

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Just a week and a half ago, we told you all about Mekria Online, a brand-new in-development MMORPG focused on both PvE and PvP....
So, probably not.

Best Buy is pulling Oculus demo stations

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The best hope for VR headsets to move units is indisputably in the field of demonstrations. That's really always been the hope that the...

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