Obsidian’s Armored Warfare team hit with layoffs
Obsidian Entertainment has announced layoffs for an unknown number of staffers working on military MMO Armored Warfare.
Gamasutra reports that the cuts are planned to...
Heroes of the Storm’s game director passes the torch, moves to new Blizzard project
Heroes of the Storm Game Director Dustin Browder announced this afternoon that he's hanging up his hat and moving elsewhere within Blizzard to work...
Dean Hall says that there’s ‘no money’ in making games for VR
After all of the talk about how this was to be the year of virtual reality, the actual reality does not seem to be...
Take a look behind the curtain at The Matrix Online’s emulation history
The last message from The Matrix Online servers came back in 2009. The game is dead and gone. And yet there are still people...
Pokemon GO confirms rumors with Generation 2 update, 7800-store Starbucks rollout
The Starbucks leak is at least partially true: Niantic has confirmed that Pokemon Go has teamed up with the coffee company. Starting at 2 p.m. EST today,...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2016
About a year and a half ago, my colleague, co-worker, and friend to man and beast alike Justin compiled a list of the healthiest...
Dragon Quest Heroes II is hitting the PlayStation 4 in April 2017
Are you eagerly anticipating the day that Dragon Quest X graces the shores of North America? Well, too bad; that's not the announcement we've...
Conan Exiles infographic details the thin barriers between you and death
Turns out yesterday's Conan Exiles survival video wasn't the only thing Funcom had in store on the topic. Today, the studio's put out a...
China is cracking down on MMORPG lockbox vendors
Violently authoritarian government regulates nasty video gaming monetization exploit, and gamers are cheering? Yep, China is cracking down on lockboxes. A notice from the creepy Ministry of...
Legendary Entertainment is making an e-sports film starring Will Ferrell
Well, it's official: No one gets to act as if e-sports or video games are anything less than mainstream at this point. Legendary Entertainment,...
Eternal Crusade Q&A covers map imbalances and short-term development plans
Overwhelming force is a valid tactical decision, but it's not fun when you're playing a severely lopsided match in Eternal Crusade on either side;...
Former Cryptic devs form Cold Iron studio to build ‘AAA online action games’
Every wonder what happened to Craig Zinkievich after he moved on from Star Trek Online and Cryptic Studios? Turns out he and several other...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG developer has the best communication with players?
MMORPG developers come in lots of flavors of communication, with PR and community teams that run the gamut from "oh, we still pay for...
Daybreak confirms its president has stepped down, Columbus Nova exec continues in his stead
Last week, we reported on the news that Daybreak President Russell Shanks, who had been the President of the company ever since John Smedley resigned last...
South Korea outlaws creation and distribution of game hacking programs
Think the worst thing that can happen to you for helping gamers cheat in a video game is a ban? Think again, at least...
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s big world playtest, Star Citizen’s alpha 2.6 (December 3, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, ArtCraft says over 9000 gamers have been invited to try to break the three alpha servers active during Crowfall's "Big...
Guild Wars 2 PvP lead Josh Davis leaves ArenaNet
ArenaNet is short one grouch this week.
Associate Global Brand Manager and Competitive Events Manager Josh Davis, otherwise known as Grouch, announced on Friday that...
Rawr: Buy a World of Warcraft Mischief minipet — for the children
Let's face it: Almost every single MMORPG out there has useless crap you can buy in the cash shop and parade around in-game. So...
Betawatch: These are the dates of our lives (December 2, 2016)
I never wanted to be writing about betas for a living, you know. I wanted to be a novelist (once I realized that "combination...
Rumor: Daybreak’s Russell Shanks is out, Columbus Nova exec is in
Wilhelm over at The Ancient Gaming Noob has dug up what appears to be juicy Daybreak news. According to entries on Linkedin and Wikipedia,...
