Year in Review – July 2019 (news) By Bree Royce - November 6, 2019 6:59 PM 0 Mike Morhaime waxes nostalgic about the crunch of early Blizzard MMO strategy title Destiny’s Sword fully funded its $23K Kickstarter this weekend Atlas launches single-player mode beta amid promises that multiplayer is the team’s ‘priority’ Another DDOS e-thug has landed jail time – this one owes Daybreak $95K TennoCon 2019: Empyrean connects Warframe with railjack ships and ‘raids’ RuneScape’s Land Out of Time has launched – check out the trailer Catching up with City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers as NCsoft negotiations continue Naoki Yoshida wants to collab with Blizzard to bring Diablo and WoW to Final Fantasy XIV Trademarks hint at big changes for Daybreak Game Company That new Lord of the Rings MMORPG is still happening, now with Amazon’s New World team on board Albion Online’s Percival update is live with new solo random dungeons and customization perks After suggesting it’d save Player Studio, Daybreak has quietly shuttered it for EverQuest instead EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s comms blackout will lead to absolute anarchy Neverwinter’s Uprising module launches August 13 with a new Gith race and lowbie experience For Science: New longitudinal study demonstrates no link between video games and aggression Kickstarter canceled the campaign for MMORPG RAW just a day before it funded Villagers & Heroes’ massive A Tale of Earth and Sea expansion launches Shamans and much more today Gamer-oriented ‘Gamer Goo’ lotion vows to ‘banish sweaty palms for good’ Co-op action RPG Killsquad is in early access and already topping Steam’s sale list Daybreak filed for yet another studio trademark just a week ago Fallout 76’s latest patch hit like an A-bomb (and not in a good way) A lawsuit against Jagex for muting a player is thrown out in five days A Tale in the Desert prepares for its ninth iteration Here’s how much vehicles in Star Citizen cost in-game (as of right now) Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce departs the studio Mordhau says it’s now ‘taking toxicity and racism seriously’ plus adding more maps and modes Life is Feudal: MMO is officially going free-to-play with bonuses for existing players Legends of Aria is finally launching August 6 – with a huge new patch friendly to PvE players Guild Wars 2 announces legendary upgrades and a community event to unlock ’em UK’s Gambling Commission considers prosecuting video game companies that facilitate gambling SuperData June 2019: WoW’s back in the top 10 as Overwatch players have spent $1B on in-game content Shroud of the Avatar’s Release 68 kicks off a new update cadence Guild Wars 2 has officially announced collab for armor-lookalike clothing line Daybreak on EverQuest 3: ‘We will definitely do something with the IP’ New Frontier launches on Steam with the publisher that supposedly was not connected to the game Guild Wars 2 is plotting a big living world announcement during PAX on August 30 The Elder Scrolls Online’s Scalebreaker launches August 12 – check out the QuakeCon 2019 roadmap A 16-year-old kid took Fortnite’s World Cup this weekend, pocketing $3M EVE Online hints at a ‘chaos era’ and hikes up market fees World of Warcraft’s Patch 8.2.5 includes Goblin and Worgen makeovers, bee mounts, and party sync Another World of Warcraft expansion ‘leak’ surfaces, this one called Shadowlands Bandai Namco says it has ‘no plans’ to release Blue Protocol in the west ‘at the moment’ Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds is live once again, along with the legendary upgrade event New Frontier updates former Wild West Online players on its relationship to Free Reign Entertainment Blizzard was ‘blown away’ by World of Warcraft Classic beta engagement Alpha MMO battle royale Mavericks has been canceled as its company enters bankruptcy Star Trek Online Awakening is launching September 10, starring Anthony Rapp Exposé tracks how one dude fudged a whole company and swindled 25 devs over an MMO