Black Desert Online merges down into EU and NA ‘New World’ servers
If you ever thought that Black Desert's server structure was unwieldy and esoteric, good news for you! Kakao has announced that the western version...
The Daily Grind: What MMO would make a killer board game?
On a master list of things I never expected to see, Riot Games making a board game even loosely based upon League of Legends...
Is the online pay-to-win situation improving?
MMO players looking for a hot-button topic often have to go no further than dredging up discussion concerning pay-to-win and its alleged affect on online...
Bluehole Studio and ArenaNet are hiring multiple devs
It is always much more of a relief to report on MMO studios hiring on new help rather than going through layoffs. Right now,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 90: BlizzConcerns
Justin, Bree, and Eliot discuss BlizzCon 2016, WoW's new cadence, Diablo III's content plans, the Nostalrius legacy server standoff, Funcom's financials, and Revelation Online.
Nexon is bringing a truckload of MMORPGs to G-Star this year
Nexon's MMORPG catalogue is about to get a whole lot bigger. In a press release issued today, the studio has announced 35 new games,...
Ascent: The Space Game’s presidential election and player-run GoFundMe
Among the fun quirks of sandboxes is the political intrigue they can spawn. One such drama is currently unfolding in indie sci-fi sandbox Ascent: The...
Dual Universe on post-Kickstarter funding and mining in the sandbox
Dual Universe's latest newsletter since its successful Kickstarter funding back in October is out this week. Novaquark tells players that it's almost finished building...
Project Gorgon is 25% funded on Indiegogo
Project Gorgon has raised a quarter of its goal on Indiegogo as of today and has tweaked a few pledge tiers, a new update...
NCsoft sues Lineage II partner over copyright infringement
Well this will make for awkward encounters in the corporate hallways.
Apparently NCsoft is levying a lawsuit against its own business partner, Netmarble, for infringing...
Blizzard co-founder returns to the company after a 12-year absence
Over the past weekend of BlizzCon news, you might have heard someone exclaim, "Oh my goodness, Allen Adham has come back to Blizzard!" This...
Funcom opens new store to sell Secret World merch
A while back, Funcom fans were able to purchase The Secret World t-shirts and posters through Welovefine. While that storefront has long gone defunct,...
Leaderboard: How much do you expect to pay for the Diablo III Necro pack?
Diablo's 25th anniversary announcements at BlizzCon have been welcomed by some players and blasted by others. While a significant portion of the content --...
The Daily Grind: What was your favorite part of BlizzCon?
BlizzCon 2016 was really hit-and-miss from my perspective. On the one hand, there was some really great stuff in there, like the discussion of...
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s $3M, Gorgon’s Indiegogo, Nebula’s launch (November 5, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news was a surprisingly big one for the genre! First, Crowfall broke $3,000,000 in crowdfunding to date, bringing the...
BlizzCon 2016: World of Warcraft’s Legion design panel liveblog
How did we end up here? This World of Warcraft expansion is crawling with demons. It smells like brimstone. No, really, how did we...
Betawatch: Revelation Online lands in closed beta (November 4, 2016)
After a week's delay, Revelation Online has arrived in closed beta. It even has a snazzy trailer to go along with it, which is...
Cheers to the MMORPG studios supporting Extra Life this weekend
Extra Life is kicking off this weekend! The charity group has been organizing game developers and players alike in an annual gaming marathon for...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2016: Blizzard claims ‘biggest quarterly online player community in its history’
Activision-Blizzard's Q3 2016 financial report PR just released, surprising no one with record-setting piles of money and success.
"The Activision and Blizzard segments had record...
EVE Online GMs removed at least 25 trillion ISK worth $400,000 from the game
If you've been reading the gaming news this week, you may have heard about the enormous amount of wealth that was recently removed from EVE...
