Star Wars Galaxies Restoration rogue server confirms leak that it’s considering subscription benefits
Uncertainty has enfolded Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Restoration III, as a player senator leaked financial plans from the team that suggest the...
Make My MMO: Project Gorgon’s hardcore living, Ashes of Creation’s alpha 2
Project Gorgon rolled out a big patch at the tail end of June, adding a new dungeon, a hardcore hardcore living skill, and more...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Dawntrail peak player concurrency has apparently topped even Endwalker’s
In case you were still wondering whether Final Fantasy XIV's Dawntrail was a hit with MMORPG gamers, wonder no more, as apparently the game...
CCP Games CEO says making EVE Online’s dev platform open source cements the MMO’s legacy
EVE Online developer CCP Games is planning on making its Carbon development platform open source sometime later this year, which will grant interested developers...
EA is killing PS3 and Xbox 360 online functionality for three Battlefield games
If you've been enjoying playing Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, or Battlefield Hardline on your older consoles, you should get in your last matches in...
Layoffs have once again impacted workers at Ubisoft and Microsoft
We have the unfortunate duty to report that layoffs in the gaming industry don't appear to be abating anytime soon, as there are new...
Star Citizen raked in higher profits over the month of June and the second quarter
One might suspect that the month of May would have been a big one for Star Citizen's piggy bank owing to the Invictus event...
Daybreak bought Palia studio Singularity 6 and aims to bring the game to launch
File this one under "did not see this coming in a million years but also not sad about it whatsoever": Daybreak has acquired Palia...
MMO Business Roundup: Roblox’s 4D AI, Perfect World’s layoffs, Bethsoft’s unionization, and Rockstar’s ambitions
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Roblox - The controversial games giant now claims that it's "building...
UK employment tribunal says Star Citizen studio discriminated against autistic employee
While we recognize that this monetary ruling is barely a bug bite to the wrist of Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games, we'll take...
Sega is promising a new open-world and massively multiplayer Crazy Taxi game
If you've never played Crazy Taxi before, the gameplay is very simple to describe: Someone gets in your taxi, you drive to the designated...
Tribes 3 Rivals heads into de facto maintenance mode as developers offer compensation
There's bad but perhaps not unexpected news for Tribes 3 Rivals players today as developer Prophecy Games has put out a rather flatly titled...
Amazon Games shares its long focus approach while saying that the Lord of the Rings MMO is ‘not too far away’
It can be pretty easy to assume that the strategy of Amazon Games is to throw handfuls of anything at the wall to see...
Massively Overthinking: How ‘massively multiplayer’ do we expect MMORPGs to be?
Earlier in June on the MOP Podcast, Justin and I took a stab at answering the age-old question of what, exactly, constitutes an MMO....
The virtual Ikea in Roblox is open with 10 virtual employees
So maybe you work at Ikea. We don't judge you. But with the help of Roblox, 10 employees of the company get to work...
Perfect Ten: The MMORPG terms we use but never define, from murderhobo to sandpark
Over in Vague Patch Notes, I have an ongoing series of columns that I describe as being primarily about having useful notes for us...
Pokemon Company’s threat of potential legal action against Palworld appears to have fizzled out
During the height of Palworld's popularity, gamers threw a lot of accusations in the direction of developer Pocket Pair, claiming plagiarism of Pokemon's designs...
Sigh, yes, a man tried to bludgeon another man with a hammer IRL over ArcheAge
File this one under "why we can't have nice things:" Yahoo reported last night that a feud in ArcheAge went way too far, as...
View counts for New World Aeternum’s official announcement trailer see a mysterious spike
A lot of the time, when PR tells us how many views a game gets on YouTube or Twitch, it's an easily ignored metric...
Blue Protocol’s fate up in the air after Bandai Namco Online declares insolvency
It's probably wise for us to severely ratchet down any expectations or hopes of seeing a triumphant release of Blue Protocol in the year...
