Allods Online looks for approval on Steam Greenlight
Allods Online is looking to join the not-very-exclusive Steam club by going through the greenlight process. Right now the game is up on Steam...
Ultraviolence, virtual worlds, and why I hate myself for loving GTA Online
OK, maybe that title is overly dramatic. Still, I feel guilty for liking Grand Theft Auto Online. I've touched on this before, as have...
Linda ‘Brasse’ Carlson on ArcheAge, community management, and her new role at Trion
Linda "Brasse" Carlson is one of the MMO industry's most beloved community specialists, and genre fans everywhere boggled just a bit when Daybreak laid...
The Daily Grind: Would you watch a movie based on your favorite MMO?
I'm not the biggest World of Warcraft fan. That said, I'm pretty interested to see what Duncan Jones does with the Warcraft movie. This is...
Tree of Life launches early access on May 27th
Nothing like a quick turnaround to pique your interest in a game, right? Tree of Life came out of nowhere to announce that its brightly...
Nexon Korea apparently yoinked some Blizzard artwork
There are certain phrases you never really expect to come up over the course of a work day, and boy, "Nexon steals artwork from...
Funcom financials trend downward, new CEO appointed
While it could have been worse, Funcom's Q1 2015 financials could have been a heck of a lot better, too. In yesterday's financial report,...
Sony is hiring developers for Project Morpheus
Sony is apparently ramping up development on its Project Morpheus VR headset, which was announced in early 2014. According to a job posting, the...
NCsoft hopes its AI tech will lead to less predictable game environments
NCsoft is spending time and money on artificial intelligence, according to a report in the Korea IT Times. "Controlling games mobile environment is...
CCP Games buys back $20m in bonds, drops Legion trademark
News is circulating in the EVE Online blogs and forum that developer CCP Games has just bought back $20 million in publicly traded bonds....
Blizzard ordered to pay costs in stymied lawsuit against gold seller
It's not always a foregone conclusion that Blizzard will emerge triumphant from its many court cases. Recently, it chalked one up in the "loss"...
Make My MMO: May 16, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Gloria Victis developer Black Eye Games let us know that it's in "the home stretch" in terms of...
The Game Archaeologist: Multiplayer BattleTech
It was the 31st century, where feuding factions decided to settle their differences by throwing multi-ton war robots at each other. It was also...
Camelot Unchained’s Friday update talks blowing stuff up
Mark Jacobs has posted Camelot Unchained's traditional Friday update. In it, he thanks a couple of backers for their gifts to the team, and...
Project HON is cancelled by NCsoft
Remember Project HON? It was a giant robot combat game in the Unreal 4 engine, and every trailer released for it looked stompy and...
Massively Overthinking: What would persuade you to play a classic MMO?
For this edition of Massively Overthinking, Kickstarter donor Sargon wants us think back to 1997, when Ultima Online launched and parted MMOs from graphical MUDs forever....
Space Engineers opens its code base to modders
Hey space engineers, how would you like access to the source code of, um, Space Engineers? You can have it, since developer Keen Software...
Nexon revenues rise in early 2015
After reading through Nexon's financial report for Q1 2015, one can imagine the company skipping along while whistling a merry tune. Yes, it's generally...
Rumor: Blade & Soul might be in internal testing for US release
Hey, you all remember the guy causing a whole kerfluffle about the fact that WildStar is supposedly going free-to-play? Good times! But the Redditor...
Raph Koster used MMO design to help revitalize a bar trivia game
You might know Raph Koster from his MMO legacy as a designer on Ultima Online or Star Wars Galaxies, or perhaps from his current...
