Make My MMO: Pantheon raises another $2.4M in investor funds
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen's Visionary Realms got a welcome blast of new funding this week with a haul of $2.4M in Series A...
Star Wars: The Old Republic is looking for a new development director
With the recent loss of long-time SWTOR mainstay Charles Boyd, the MMO's community could use any shot of positive news about the game's future....
Betawatch: Ship of Heroes invites you into its housing beta
Ship of Heroes wants you to visit a house. Specifically, it wants you to visit its house, as it is opening up its housing...
Jagex acquires US-based work-for-hire game developer Pipeworks Studios
Jagex, which is best known around these parts as the company behind RuneScape and Old School RuneScape as well as the publisher of Space...
Ubisoft announces game cancellations, game delays, and company cost-cutting measures
The financial fortunes for developer and publisher Ubisoft are looking a bit more grim in the wake of an internal email and its first...
Neopets gets hacked for all user account data and source code, hacker offers everything for sale for bitcoin
So who had "Neopets gets hacked and sold on the black market" on their 2022 bingo card? When you think about online games, you...
Working As Intended: MMOs that wish they were Star Wars Galaxies
"My friends and I would skin someone alive for an SWG 2," an old Star Wars Galaxies player recently wrote on Reddit, and that...
Square-Enix finally makes good on its threat of selling NFTs with NFT-linked action figures
You may have thought that after seeing NFT prices crash along with cryptocurrency prices crashing, Square-Enix would have backed down from its inane blather...
Diablo Immortal set to launch July 25 in China after bizarre delay
Back in June when Diablo Immortal launched here in the west, Chinese publisher NetEase surprised everyone by delaying the game's release in China itself,...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMO gamers just frogs in a boiling cookpot?
Longtime MOP reader Miol recently wrote us a long email inspired by a non-MMO stream he'd been watching during which the streamer went off...
EVE Online addresses community safety and promises more action to police community behavior
There's been some drama unfolding in EVE Online recently, the kind of drama that is at once not surprising when you see the cast...
It’s been exactly one year since Activision-Blizzard’s sexual discrimination and harassment scandal broke out
One year ago today, I was puttering around in the evening, probably playing video games, when our tipbox exploded with the news that a...
Raph Koster talks about the ‘mission’ of Playable Worlds, his vision of the metaverse, and player ownership
Raph Koster is no stranger to talking about the concept of the metaverse - he's done it a couple of times already, trying to...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen lands $2.4M in funding and elaborates on its death mechanics
The latest newsletter out of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has some pretty important news to share with its fans on both a game...
Microsoft-owned Minecraft bans NFT and blockchain implementations over exclusivity, unreliability, and fraud
If you can't see the writing on the wall when it comes to blockchain shenanigans, you should probably get your eyesight checked out because...
MMO Business Roundup: Blizzard Albany’s union, BioWare Pride, Sony’s antitrust lawsuit, and the P2E ‘hustle’
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Activision-Blizzard: Another group of QA testers within Activision-Blizzard have announced they're...
NCsoft West and ArenaNet’s DEI committee members talk about company diversity in a video
Members of the DEI committee for Guild Wars 2 publisher NC West and developer ArenaNet have come together in a recent video to talk...
Entropia Universe is laying NFT eggs that promise ‘rewards-earning opportunities’ for holders
It's been a hot minute since the real-world currency sci-fi MMO Entropia Universe made headlines here, and when it did, it was due to...
Bungie accuses Destiny 2 player of cheating and harassment in latest lawsuit
The development studio of Destiny 2 is once again in the news thanks to yet another lawsuit being filed against one of its players....
Albion Online looks past on the five years of operation since its launch
Today does not mark the five-year anniversary since what Albion Online is counting as its official launch date of July 17th, 2017. That was...
