The Daily Grind: Does Daybreak’s involvement with LOTRO and DDO worry you?
Yesterday, we were all pretty astonished to learn that Turbine has spun out Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online --...
Entropia Universe player returns $10,000 lost in accidental auction
If you've played an MMORPG long enough, you've probably misclicked and done something foolish, like deleted your mount, dropped your best sword on the...
Smed says Hero’s Song is ‘working through some things’
We've had several tips this week from players concerned about Hero's Song. One, for example, suggested that several employees had left Pixelmage Games and...
Turbine spins LOTRO and DDO teams out to new studio, using Daybreak as publisher
Welp, didn't see this one coming.
Turbine has just announced that it's spinning off the Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online...
Cold Iron’s Craig Zinkievich on funding, the genre, and the MMO nature of the game
Earlier this month, we got a curious press release from a new gaming studio called Cold Iron. I might have skipped over it but...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Most Likely to Flop in 2017 or Beyond
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Most Likely to Flop in 2017 or Beyond, which was awarded to Blade & Soul last...
Make My MMO: Elyria concedes coiffure complaints (December 17, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Chronicles of Elyria brought up that most critical of MMORPG features: hairstyles. I'm not even kidding; not 10 days...
Betawatch: Guardians of Ember starts heading into head starts (December 16, 2016)
First, Guardians of Ember had a headstart period for early access. Then, it actually hit early access. So it was even earlier access there....
Pro e-sports team opens retail shop in London
So file this one under "that happened": A pro-gaming team has opened a pop-up e-sports retail store in London.
The team is Fnatic, and really...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Worst MMORPG Business Model of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Worst MMORPG Business Model of 2016, which is another new consideration for us this year...
Guardians of Ember denies misappropriating League of Legends concept art, tackles server issues
Following the early access launch of Runewaker's Guardians of Ember this week, Massively OP was made aware of player-floated allegation that the studio had misappropriated...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG Business Model of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Business Model of 2016, which is a new award we're doling out...
Elder Scrolls’ Todd Howard to be inducted in video game hall of fame
Bethesda Lead Designer Todd Howard is slated to be the next inductee in the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hall of fame for...
Is Heroes of the Storm a failure from the e-sports side?
Does it seem like Heroes of the Storm is still struggling to find its niche? On the one hand, that question is ridiculous at...
Robot brawling MMO Robocraft now counts 9.5M players
Freejam announced today that Robocraft, its early access robot-themed, builder-centric action MMO, has dinged up to 9.5 million players just as the game is...
Blade & Soul has gone free-to-play in Korea
Back during November's G-Star in Seoul, NCsoft announced that Blade &Â Soul's Korean version would be joining the Western and Taiwanese servers in their free-to-play...
Trion Worlds responds to Reddit allegations over ArcheAge website security
Early this morning, a first-time Reddit poster alleged that he or she had run a "basic web security evaluation" on Trion World's game websites,...
Evolve developer Turtle Rock Studios is working on a new multiplayer FPS with Perfect World Entertainment
Back in October, Evolve ceased its apparently successful revival and moved into maintenance mode, with developer Turtle Rock Studios handing off the game and...
China bans streaming games not approved by the Ministry of Culture
China's Ministry of Culture is the government agency that covers (among other things) what imagery can and cannot be shown in a video game....
Twitch adds AutoMod system to stop nasty comments before they post
Streaming stuff can be pretty darn cool. We're fond of our own streams, just by way of example. But no one likes having stream...
