Vague Patch Notes: When did Blue Protocol really die?
It was the middle of the night, for us, when we heard the news: Blue Protocol is dead. It will never be receiving a...
RuneScape fans revolt over Jagex’s second subscription fee hike in three years
Welp, the party is over for RuneScape fans: Jagex has once again announced that it's raising the price of the game.
"Membership pricing has been...
Steam sets a new all-time concurrency record with 37M players logging into the platform
Let there be no doubt to anyone who plays games on PC of who the 5,000-pound gorilla of the digital storefront world is: Valve's...
Blue Protocol is shutting down in Japan and will not be localized for the west
The writing has appeared to be on the wall for a while now, but it's now official: Blue Protocol is being shut down in...
World of Warcraft: The War Within racks up player praise and frustrated memes along with hotfixes
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
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...
MY.GAMES is handing Skyforge publishing off to Innova, and yes this is confusing
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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,...
Laniatus-owned Idea Fabrik claims The Repopulation is back online, renews assault on former contractor
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
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
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
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
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...
Let’s Build A Dungeon is an upcoming MMO development sim from developer Springloaded
Do you want to build an MMO but lack either the access to venture capital sufficient to fund it or the willingness to grift...
