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What's 45% of your MMO playerbase lost in less than a year when you have a blockbuster movie on the way? https://twitter.com/warcraftmovie/status/661573910094155776 Eh, the clip is a good distraction, anyway. The full trailer is due Friday. Source: Blizzard Twitter

I imagine that the launch of Heart of Thorns was quite a bittersweet event for the ArenaNet gang: The sense of relief and celebration when the big red button was pushed was palpable, but it's not as though the Guild Wars 2 developers then got to sit back and relax after a long road to expansion release. We've seen...

Do you need a game that's so dark that if it were any darker it'd be a pure black rectangle on your monitor? Are you craving a mature-themed vampire MMO with some serious bite? Then perhaps Dogma: Eternal Night (previously called Project Dogmat) might be for you. Developed by Prelude Games Factory, Dogma is picking up the dropped ball by...

Players have been adventuring in EverQuest II for more than a decade now, and that's a good reason to celebrate. Even as the developers are preparing for the launch of Terrors of Thalumbra, there's time to celebrate the big milestone for the game, starting with the Heroes Festival kicking off on November 6th. Travelers to Freeport or Qeynos can...

Overwatch's tagline is, "The world needs heroes." If we might amend that motto in light of a recent story, it should add "...but no more lawsuits, please." Blizzard recently finished up a legal fight to secure the Overwatch name and trademark. Innovis Labs had a previous Overwatch trademark application for a video game but signed a co-existence agreement with Blizzard in 2014....

It's not common at all to see Arabic-language MMOs release in the west, which is why the recently released Areeb World might merit some attention. The game, which does not have an English version, features a scientifically advanced city that was destroyed by powerful robots created by the population. To help rebuild the metropolis, players jump into roles such as teacher...

Strange things are afoot at Blizzard Activision. Even while the studio is preparing for BlizzCon and the trailer reveal for the Warcraft movie, it announced that World of Warcraft has dropped another 100,000 subscriptions during this past quarter to end at 5.5 million. The studio said that this puts the game's population in a "relatively stable" state. WoW lost almost 3 million subs...

Back in June, Massively OP's Justin Olivetti wrote an article listing what he considered the 10 healthiest MMOs, a subject that quickly proved controversial, in part because the definition of "healthy" is so hard to pin down. "There are a lot of variables to consider," he wrote. "I researched several angles, including player tracking services, frequency of patches, financial...

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 next expansion for EverQuest II will include not one raid, not two raids, but four raids for players to take apart. If you can hardly wait to see what those raids will look like, you can check out the game's new raid preview on the official site, which shows off the quartet from the entry level to the...