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World of Warcraft: The War Within racks up player praise and frustrated memes along with hotfixes

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Yesterday saw World of Warcraft's latest expansion, The War Within, open to everyone who plays the game (rather than just those who pre-ordered the...

Mobile online RTS Rival Kingdoms sunsets after eight years of operation

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The white flag has gone up, the soldiers have laid down their arms, and the nearly decade-old conflict on mobile devices is now at...
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MY.GAMES is handing Skyforge publishing off to Innova, and yes this is confusing

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It's the end of an era: Skyforge has been operating under the My.com/MY.GAMES banner since its launch back in 2015, but now it's moving...

Unleashed Games confirms its MMO Haven will be used for additional titles made with generative AI

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In the beginning half of the year, we started covering Haven, a developing MMORPG from Unleashed Games that promised gameplay beats familiar to those...

NCsoft Q2 2024: NCsoft says it’s not shifting focus away from MMORPGs

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In the chaos of August financial releases and Gamescom, we overlooked NCsoft's Q2 2024 financial release, so we're tackling it now. Unfortunately, it's not...

Amazon boss: ‘We’re still trying to find the hook’ for the new Lord of the Rings MMO

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With 10 titles currently in development, Amazon Games Studio is clearly hoping to diversify into success before sinking into unprofitability. One of the bigger...

Amazon Games says its publishing moves signal the company is ‘not hell bent on just being MMOs’

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Amazon Games is publishing the co-op title King of Meat. It has also entered publishing deals with Maverick Games for its narrative-driven open-world title...

New World will be a featured IP in Amazon’s new Secret Level animated series

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During this afternoon's Opening Night Live at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Amazon's Prime Video label announced Secret Level, a "new adult-animated anthology series" specifically...

Overwatch 2 banned 500K cheaters ahead of its season 12 launch today

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Overwatch 2's fight against cheaters and bad player behavior continues on, and while it's likely a never-ending war, Blizzard is opening its latest player...

Gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live(blog): Dune Awakening launches on PC early next year

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Gamescom 2024 in Cologne, Germany, is about to begin with Geoff Keighley's Opening Night Live spectacle, a two-hour parade of trailers, advertisements, and ideally,...
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Laniatus-owned Idea Fabrik claims The Repopulation is back online, renews assault on former contractor

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It's been quite some time since The Repopulation was in our collective radar, but that was because development of the game was ended in...

Steam visually filters out ‘humorous but unhelpful’ reviews, readies new game description rules for September

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Gamers who updated their Steam desktop app recently may have seen something a little new in their browsing experience: a feature that is visually...

Embracer Q1 2024: Sales and company debt lower while the LOTR MMO gets a mention

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If you were hoping for some form of revelation for Embracer Group's slate of MMOs to come out of the company's April-to-June investor report...

Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation’s alpha 2, Dual Universe’s player hosting

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It's been an interesting summer for crowdfunded MMOs. Ashes of Creation has hit August running, first with a preview of the Bard class, then...

GeForce NOW introduces the ability to access and use a small library of World of Warcraft mods

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While it's pretty easy to assume that the subset of players utilizing GeForce NOW's game streaming service to play World of Warcraft might be...
I actually kind of wanted to fly a kite.

Let’s Build A Dungeon is an upcoming MMO development sim from developer Springloaded

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Do you want to build an MMO but lack either the access to venture capital sufficient to fund it or the willingness to grift...

Diablo IV’s latest cosmetics crossover with World of Warcraft, but they’re going to cost you

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How badly do you want your Rogue in Diablo IV to look like Sylvanas Windrunner? Would you be willing to pay around $28 for...

Former Pearl Abyss America CEO takes the helm of NCsoft America

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Last week we reported on Pearl Abyss America CEO Jeonghee “JJ” Jin announcing the end of her tenure after six years for "a new...

Stop Killing Games Initiative stumps for signatures to pressure EU governments

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This past April saw the formation of the Stop Killing Games initiative, a grass roots attempt by YouTuber Ross Scott to enact laws that...

Borderlands film adaptation bombs in its opening weekend in terms of reception and ticket sales

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If you were hoping that the Mario and Sonic films were heralding a new age in good video game movie adaptations, the live-action film...