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It’s been three weeks since Hand of the Gods players have had any news from Hi-Rez

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Stretch your mind back to February 20th, when Hi-Rez's SMITE-infused free-to-play online card game Hand of the Gods formally launched. The studio appeared to...
Oh look.

Boss Key shutters after Radical Heights, LawBreakers fizzle

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Boss Key is closing down following the struggles of LawBreakers and Radical Heights, though the latter will apparently remain playable for now. Cliff Bleszinski...

Ouch, Conan Exiles players are pretty pissed off about Funcom’s PvE Conflict server switcharoo

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It's not every day that an online game changes the official ruleset of whole servers the day after everyone rolled characters, but that's exactly...
Bye.

Star Trek Online is discontinuing monthly subscription purchases

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There's a business model shift taking place for Star Trek Online, although you could argue it's a somewhat lateral shift. The game will no...
Nope!

Daybreak has now been hit with layoffs [Confirmed]

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Daybreak has now confirmed the layoffs, and we've got lots more information from our own sources - see below for updates and context. Multiple game...

EVE Online Executive Producer Andie ‘CCP Seagull’ Nordgren is leaving CCP Games [Updated]

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It's always tough when a development studio loses one of its top people, but today's news is sure to sting more than usual for...

Daybreak update: Chief Publishing Officer Laura Naviaux has left the company

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Yesterday, Massively OP put together a piece on MMO company Daybreak Games Company and its corporate overlords, chronicling the US government's asset freeze of...

Daybreak says it has ‘no affiliation’ with Columbus Nova, the company it said bought it in 2015

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Note: We've updated this piece heavily at the end with Daybreak's statements and further links. A chain of business connections could have a real and...

Russia’s Telegram crackdown blocks access to WoW, EVE, and Guild Wars 2

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If you play Guild Wars 2, World of Tanks, EVE Online, or World of Warcraft in Russia, you may find that access to these...
caaaaaardies

Star Trek Online is finally adding playable Cardassians with its next expansion

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A playable faction of Cardassians has been something Star Trek Online fans have wanted more or less since the game wanted, to the point...

Romain ‘Tilty’ Amiel departs Funcom and Secret World Legends

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Secret World Legends players are in for a shock: Game Director Romain Amiel is moving on from Funcom. MMO vets will recall he's been...
What you are chasing and will not get.

Perfect Ten: Why trend-chasing doesn’t work at all for online games

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Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...
And go punch

PAX East 2018: Hands-on with the surprisingly solid combat of Ashes of Creation

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This year's PAX East featured a lot of games early in their testing phase, but Ashes of Creation was one that had splurged for...
Very nice, how much.

PAX East 2018: Hands-on with The Elder Scrolls Online’s Summerset

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One of the fun parts of this job - or one of the odd parts, depending on how you prioritize things - is how...

Ultima Online’s F2P conversion, Endless Journey, is officially live with new ‘deluxe starter pack’

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At 20 years old, Ultima Online is finally doing what its EA-backed handlers at Broadsword once said it would never do: It's going free-to-play. Game...

World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth expansion launches August 14

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Who had August in the poll? Anybody have August 14th specifically? Because that, my friends, is precisely when World of Warcraft's Battle for Azeroth expansion...
wheeeeee?

TERA launches on consoles

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Fans of console-based hacking and/or slashing should rejoice today, as TERA is now out for consoles. En Masse happily touts it in the trailer...

GDC 2018: Exploring SpatialOS with Improbable CCO Bill Roper

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SpatialOS: You've probably been seeing this name pop up more and more in the MMO sphere. Worlds Adrift, Mavericks, Fractured, Seed, MetaWorld, and Identity are just some of the titles we've...
A journey into complexity.

Perfect Ten: More anthropomorphic MMO studio conversations

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A while back, you may recall that I posted some of my conversations with anthropomorphized concepts of MMO studios. If you don't remember this,...

The Elder Scrolls Online announces Summerset chapter for May 21 for PC and June 5 for console

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Maybe you saw it coming, maybe not, but it's official now as it's just been announced on the stream: The Elder Scrolls Online's next...

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