Betawatch: July 10th, 2015
Star Citizen managed to seize everyone's attention this week. Was it the opening of a new office for the game's development studio? The latest...
Guns of Icarus overhauls its UI, adds new deathmatch
The latest Guns of Icarus newsletter says that steampunk airship multiplayer title's new and improved UI is the result of 23,124 words worth of...
World of Tanks’ Xbox One beta event starts July 11
World of Tanks is coming to Xbox One for a two-day beta event beginning on July 11. Testers will receive login bonuses that include...
Camelot Unchained crammed a bunch of people into a zone and it went pretty well
Camelot Unchained's Mark Jacobs returns with the game's latest Friday update. He says that it's a short one on account of a monster update...
The Daily Grind: Is the age of mobile over before mobile MMOs even got started?
In analyzing survey responses returned from more than 250 developers this year, the organizers of GDC Europe did everything but declare mobile dead. "PC...
Daybreak slammed with apparent DDoS attack [Updated]
The most recent updates are toward the bottom of this post. This article is still being updated as of July 12th.
Daybreak is currently suffering...
Blade & Soul’s chi and pet systems teased
Want to know even more about Blade & Soul's Chi? There's a new update on the fantasy title's website that offers a few cryptic...
Notch: ‘F2P is bait and switch and should be illegal’
Well, there's at least one game developer who hasn't sold his soul to F2P. That would be Markus "Notch" Persson, otherwise known as the creator...
BioWare creative director on getting back to SWTOR’s story
EA has released a new dev blog by Knights of the Fallen Empire creative director Jesse Sky. Sky likens Star Wars: The Old Republic's forthcoming...
Elite’s Braben on self-publishing and the perils of virtual reality
Frontier CEO David Braben is interviewed at VideoGamer.com, and he has some interesting nuggets both for fans of Elite: Dangerous and for industry watchers...
Smed calls out Lizard Squad e-thug convicted of 50,700 cybercrimes
The Finnish courts sentenced 17-year-old Lizard Squad member Julius "zeekill" Kivimaki today, but Daybreak's John Smedley isn't having any of it. Convicted so far of...
Blizzard, Snail Games are part of a Russian nesting doll-type lawsuit
Blizzard. Lawsuit. The World of Warcraft studio seems to be constantly dealing with some legal action or another. But now it may have gotten...
Elder Scrolls Online dominates PlayStation 4 charts
While ZeniMax has yet to release any sales numbers from Elder Scrolls Online's console launch, at least one thing is crystal clear: the MMO...
Derek Smart says Star Citizen, ‘as has been pitched, will never get made’
The most polite possible way to describe Derek Smart is "contentious." He's indisputably worked on several games of huge scope without great reception. But...
ARK gets modding support, internal documentation to follow
Do you like ARK: Survival Evolved? Do you like modding? If you answered yes, I've got good news in the form of the ARK's...
Reddit CEO apologizes for mistakes and poor communication
The fallout from last week's Reddit-wide protest (which spilled over into several MMO subreddits) over a fired employee and high friction between the company...
Former WildStar dev Stephan Frost is now WoW’s design producer
WildStar lost a lot of dev talent over the past year, but at least one ex-Carbine staffer has landed on his feet. Former WildStar...
Ion’s Dean Hall wants to show how much innovation is possible in MMOs
If you're curious about Dean Hall's new Ion project that was recently announced at E3, a new interview at Polygon might be worth reading.
Hall explains...
Star Citizen’s new Frankfurt office features 21 devs now, 50 by year’s end
Cloud Imperium has opened a new development office in Frankfurt, Germany, according to the company's latest press release. Star Citizen, dubbed a "first person...
That guy who redesigned Guild Wars 2’s UI is now tackling WoW’s website
Remember back in January when an ArenaNet forum user named Amax redesigned the UI for Guild Wars 2? As it turns out, Amax is Gradinar Razvan, who...
