Industry

They said what? They’re using that business model? They hired whom? [Follow this category’s RSS feed]

The Game Archaeologist: Lucasfilm’s Habitat

16
Some of you reading this may simply never have known a world before the internet existed by virtue of your age. It's not your...
There's a thing with this game and redheads, huh?

Betawatch: September 4th, 2015

16
The pre-alpha testing for Crowfall has started, which is really great even if it's mostly just people beating the snot out of one another...

GTA Online is having a Labor Day sale plus bonuses

0
Rockstar has announced that Grand Theft Auto Online is having a Labor Day sale. No, it's not a cash shop sale, but an actual...

Here are the winners of Guild Wars 2’s emblem contest

21
Remember Guild Wars 2's guild emblem contest? Well, it's over! And ArenaNet has chosen five winners from more than 500 entries, after a judging...

EverQuest II is throwing a double XP party all weekend

7
Looking for something to do on Labor Day? If you're not going outside, you could always go to Norrath and enjoy a 100 percent...

RSI’s attorney responds to Smart’s Star Citizen demands

489
The strange saga of Derek Smart's quixotic campaign against Star Citizen continues. The game developer sicced his lawyer on RSI last month, delivering a series...

Massively Overthinking: Building your dream MMORPG

122
Massively OP Kickstarter donor xenaphex wants to hear about our dream MMOs. What really makes you tick? What would you build with a million-bajillion...

Heroes & Generals releases Xylander patch

7
Reto-Moto has updated World War II shooter Heroes & Generals with a patch called Xylander. It adds new killing tools for Soviet players as...

EverQuest Next has a big internal playtest today

134
EverQuest Next is still very much a thing according to Daybreak producer Terry Michaels. On a livestream recorded earlier this afternoon, Michaels said that...

ESPN is hiring an e-sports editor

36
Remember a year or so ago when ESPN CEO John Skipper created a minor stink in the nerdosphere by pooh-poohing e-sports and intimating that...

Trion Worlds shies away from sub-only games, praises Defiance’s console success

79
RIFT fans with long memories will recall how the game first launched in 2011 as a subscription-only title, staying that way for about a...
Put these in a room.

Marvel Heroes studio Gazillion hit with layoffs [Confirmed]

84
It's sad news for fans of Marvel Heroes and Super Hero Squad Online as at least one of the teams behind Gazillion's successful titles appears to...

The Daily Grind: Why don’t more PvP sandboxes have consequences?

167
Eco's recent stretch goal reveal tickled my fancy, mainly because I've been ranting about the lack of meaningful criminal justice systems in PvP sandboxes for...

Pathfinder Online lays off almost entire staff

273
Paizo CEO Lisa Stevens has announced to Pathfinder Online supporters that the majority of the Goblinworks team working on the game has been laid off. We...

Eco’s proposed death penalty doesn’t mess around

23
Eco, the global ecosystem survival game that recently blew through its $100,000 Kickstarter goal, has added a player-run criminal justice PvP system as a...

SWTOR vets form new studio, partner with Nexon

47
Korean F2P giant Nexon announced today that it has entered into a "strategic partnership" with newly formed QC Games. Nexon America will publish and market...

Ask Mo: The state of Massively Overpowered

97
Ask Mo is back, and today Mo and I are answering a few meta questions about Massively OP itself. Our first question is from long-time...

Valiance teases its character creation progress

22
In-development superhero MMO Valiance Online updated its website today with a few pics showing off its character creation system. The textual description refers to the...
loud noises

This is how Crowfall has evolved over the past 16 weeks

13
Crowfall's latest video is a 25-minute affair that shows you how the crowdfunded PvP fantasy title has progressed from stacks of Post-It notes, index...

SMITE tweaks the old gods and the new

5
SMITE's latest patch is here, and it features a new god (Xing Tian), new skins, new voice packs, new emotes, new avatars, and new...