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The Bethsoft layoffs saga has just gotten weirder. Last week, Irish news outlet The Connacht Tribune reported that 300 customer service representatives had been newly let go from Bethsoft's Galway offices, established in 2011 to support the then-unreleased Elder Scrolls Online. The Tribune claimed only five or six employees remained. In response, Bethsoft told Gamestop-owned blog Gameinformer that the Galway studio was still in...

People who were hoping for Gigantic to hit full retail release some time this year are no doubt a wee bit disappointed that the game is delaying its launch after a round of layoffs. A new post on the official site goes into more detail regarding the layoffs and the launch schedule. The short version? The shift to Windows...

Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really fit into the MMO category. Join me each week for Not So Massively, where I gather together the top stories from the biggest MOBAs, competitive card games, first person shooters, and other popular online games...

The Elder Scrolls franchise is no stranger to delays, which is why it's almost tradition for it's spin-off card game to reveal that it won't be making its anticipated launch window of this year. When pressed about whether or not The Elder Scrolls Legends would be squeaking into 2015, Bethesda Vice President of Marketing Pete Hines broke the bad --...

This has not been an easy year to be a fan of Pathfinder Online, but the last update fans had was that there were rumblings of a new investor interested in the project. Acting CEO Lisa Stevens recently announced that she will be hosting an end of the year chat with fans on December 29th at 8:00 p.m. EST,...

Fans of retro-themed pocket spaceships rejoice, for Pixel Starships is heading to a worldwide launch on January 6th. The game recently came out in Australia after a period of beta testing stretching back to early November. Pixel Starships bills itself as "the world’s first total starship management game in an 8-bit massive online universe." The team ran a successful Kickstarter campaign...

December's many article roundups and awards always remind me that it's hard to remember what happened last month, let alone what happened way back at the beginning of the year, so this year, I wanted to go through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we launch into 2016. We started publishing as...

Are you a fan of Entropia Universe? Then you can - I'm sorry, I can't do this. I don't know how in the world to contextualize this. I can understand the idea that Entropia Universe wants to sell a thing to its biggest fans for money. That's fine. I can even almost understand the fact that it costs $5,000 out...

Everyone always wants to know what's coming next for their favorite game. As Lord of the Rings Online players are nearing the cusp of Mordor itself, it's understandable that there are many questions that are out there concerning the game's future. Enter the 2016 producer's letter, with the team discussing the "major initiatives" that are planned for the new year....

The Daily Dot has a long piece out this week on its Kernel subsection all about Star Wars Galaxies and its emulator underground. Author Dennis Scimeca chronicles the life of SWG and the NGE, chats with Raph Koster, and tracks some of the designers working on the core SWGemu project. But will it ever be finished? "After 11 years' worth of work, ...