Warcraft Adventures fan remaster project reaches completion after six years
Back in the long long ago, there was a Blizzard project titled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans, a point-and-click adventure game that explained...
CCP Games’ VR multiplayer game aspirations expire as EVE Valkyrie, Sparc, and EVE Gunjack go dark
This past weekend saw CCP Games' run at VR games development die on the vine, as the shooter EVE Gunjack, the sports title Sparc,...
Little Orbit talks APB Reloaded’s 64-bit update and new blockchain online shooter STFU
Little Orbit is getting quite chatty these days, which certainly benefits All Points Bulletin: Reloaded desperate to hear about the future of their title....
Final Fantasy XIV is a bright spot on Square Enix’s otherwise bleak quarterly report
Square Enix's latest financial report is a textbook example of "good news, bad news" for players. The bad news is that the studio had...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best leveling curve?
Last weekend I logged into a City of Heroes rogue server to take my kids for a round of radio missions. I let my...
Embers Adrift hires a streamer and YouTuber as its narrative designer
That headline might read like it's a weird jump for Embers Adrift to make, hiring a streamer and YouTuber as a part of its...
Betawatch: Overwatch 2 wonders if you’d pay big money for skins
It's been a quiet week on Lake Betawatch, even with as Overwatch 2 seeing how players feel about dropping large sums on character skins...
Tencent seeks larger stake in Ubisoft, Unity considers Chinese spinoff
China continues its wrangling of the western gaming industry with moves on both Ubisoft and Unity. Reuters reported yesterday that Tencent is attempting to increase...
WoW Factor: Dragonflight, Wrath Classic, and trying to stop the bleeding
So if you somehow missed it, Activision-Blizzard posted its most recent earnings report this week. It was not good for the company as a...
AdventureQuest 3D, of all games, tweaks Blizzard’s nose over mobile MMO cancelation
If you're sad about the cancelation of Blizzard's mobile Warcraft MMO Neptune, maybe some self-promotional cheek from the crossplatform indie MMO AdventureQuest 3D to...
Blizzard is union-busting again, this time targeting the Diablo IV team
It would appear that Blizzard just can't stop trying to fight those pesky workers. QA devs at Blizzard Albany, formerly known as Vicarious Visions...
Stalkers harassed Destiny 2 devs with racist voice mails and doxxing, new court filings show
Earlier this week, we wrote about Destiny 2 studio Bungie's plan to reduce comms between developers and players temporarily over some extreme harassment and...
Blizzard-NetEase financing dispute leads to canceled Warcraft mobile MMO ‘Neptune’
Blizzard has apparently canceled an in-development MMORPG. Bloomberg, which first broke the news, says the game was code-named Neptune and was a "massively multiplayer...
Project L is confirmed to be free-to-play with ‘respectful’ monetization
Riot Games was long known for making exactly one game (League of Legends) but it's lately been diversifying into other fields. That diversification is...
Microsoft argues Acti-Blizz buyout won’t stifle competition because its games are ‘nothing unique’
Microsoft is on some weird flex stuff right now, swinging a mighty purse stuffed with $68.7B right at Activision-Blizzard's face while also saying the...
TwitchCon will have no mask or vaccination requirements despite the ongoing pandemic
So let's just do a quick recap, shall we? This year's PAX East had vaccination and masking, and people still reported cases of COVID-19...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2022: More revenue dips for WoW, ABK, and Blizzard in spite of Diablo Immortal
Welcome back to our regular coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials. As of this afternoon, we have Q2's results, comprising April, May, and June 2022; let's...
Gamigo director and producer moves to new position at co-development studio Lost Boys Interactive
Gamigo has seen one of its executive-level staffers shift to a different company entirely: Matthew Pettit, who was part of Gamigo's Austin, Texas office...
Would you buy a mythic skin in Overwatch 2 for $45? Asking for a Blizzard
Players of Overwatch 2 are reportedly being asked some very worrying questions by Blizzard: Fans of the shooter have shared images from a survey...
Bungie reduced direct communication with players over ‘real threats’ to devs
It's becoming clear that Destiny 2 developer Bungie is experiencing a problem with playerbase toxicity - readers will recall that the studio is taking...