Warframe’s Digital Extremes joins other studios in raising funds for Hawaii wildfire relief
With the death toll from last week's devastating wildfires in Maui climbing well over a hundred people lost, and with an entire town displaced,...
Genshin Impact recounts the RPG’s early dev challenges as it previews Version 4.0’s new characters
With Genshin Impact being the massive success that it is, it's hard to imagine that developer Hoyoverse would be anything but full of confidence...
Hawaii-centered Fractured Veil pitches in with disaster relief following last week’s wildfires
The terrible wildfires that ravaged populated sections of Hawaii's Maui island and killed around a hundred people last week continues to draw global attention....
EG7 Q2 2023: Daybreak’s MMORPGs are ‘predictably stable’
It's starting to look as if the Daybreak-run EG7 conglom is finally at the end of its bonkers revenue run: According to the Swedish...
RIFT appoints yet another community manager following previous departures
The revolving door for RIFT's community managers is a source of slight amusement and never-ending frustration for the MMO's beleaguered community. In 2022 alone,...
The Pokémon Company is donating $200,000 to Hawaii in the wake of wildfires
This past weekend, The Pokémon Company announced that the Pokémon World Championship would be held in summer of 2024 in Honolulu. But of course,...
Embracer Group’s botched $2B deal was with Saudi Arabia’s Savvy Games Group
If you're a fan of the games put out by Cryptic Studios or just Gearbox Publishing in general, you probably have not forgotten that...
Overwatch 2 is (still) getting absolutely pummeled on Steam
There's an old adage that goes, "All publicity is good publicity." It's not an infallible statement, though, because we can't imagine that any company...
Electronic Arts announces online server shutdowns for three more of its games
It's really hard to know how many people were using online multiplayer or accessing online servers for Dead Space 2, Crysis 3, or Dante's...
Rockstar absorbs platform behind Red Dead Online and GTA Online’s modded roleplay servers
This is either great news or terrible news for players of Red Dead Online and Grand Theft Auto Online: Cfx.re, the platform that lets...
Roblox Q2 2023: Roblox sees a net loss of $282M, goes all in on AI
Roblox's financial reports have been both bizarre and repetitive for years now, and we're afraid Q2 2023 is no different. While the company saw...
Destiny 2 has a new Commander Zavala following the untimely death of Lance Reddick
The tragic death of actor Lance Reddick hit the Destiny 2 community hard this past spring, as Reddick was not only a hardcore player...
BitCraft developer releases source code for its SpacetimeDB backend engine to everyone on Github
How has the 20-person Clockwork Labs studio been able to put together its sandbox MMORPG BitCraft? With the use of its bespoke backend engine...
Vague Patch Notes: Almost nobody can save struggling mid-to-small MMOs
A week ago, we all sounded off on the best way to save a small-to-mid-size MMO that was struggling, as prompted by a discussion...
Pearl Abyss Q2 2023: EVE surges, Black Desert stumbles, Crimson Desert hedges
August is a month of quarterly financials, and the season hasn't been kind to the type of MMO company that publishes its numbers. So...
Dark and Darker launches into paid early access in spite of ongoing legal battle with Nexon
It has been quite a while since we heard from the PvPvE dungeon crawler Dark and Darker, but readers might remember that all through...
NCsoft Q2 2023: Throne & Liberty delayed as revenues, mobile games, and MMOs decline
While we've already covered the major delay to Throne & Liberty revealed during NCsoft's investor call this week, there was more to the financial...
New World devs discuss the art and writing behind the MMO’s illustrated cinematics
Amazon is back with another Forged in Aeternum video for New World this week, this one helmed by Narrative Director Rob Chestney, who chats...
Square-Enix Q1 2024: Overall profits and MMO sales drop as FFXVI underperforms
The latest earnings report for Square-Enix has been released for the period ending on June 30th, 2023, and it's good news for the company...
Unity Q2 2023: Buyout of ironSource pays off with a YOY revenue increase as net losses continue
The second quarter numbers for Unity are in, and it looks like good news for investors. The company's revenue has reached $533M - an...
