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NetEase and My.com have announced that they are bringing Revelation Online westward. The steampunk-fantasy flavored MMO soft launched in China last year and boasts six classes with...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Chronicles of Elyria's Kickstarter successfully funded at just over $1.36 million following its SpatialOS integration announcement and tech preview...

If you were waiting to try Landmark when it went free-to-play, your plans have been foiled by the change to buy-to-play. However, all is...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Chronicles of Elyria's bid for Steam Greenlight status was successful (though the team won't commit to launching on...

Up until this point in my life, Puzzle Pirates has always been that "Oh yeah, that actually exists!" game to me. Even when I...

Trinium Wars has officially gone free-to-play today "due to many requests," says InselGames CEO Patrick Streppel. "We have thought long and hard about this major...

Red Fox Insights analyst Jake Parmley has another piece on Gamasutra this week, this one arguing that video game developers are "backing away from...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, there's a new player in the crowdfunding business: Fig, a "community-powered publisher" whose "goal is to strike a balance...

Age of Conan has turned eight years old, which means that if it were human it would be about time for it to start...

In a new interview with VentureBeat, Trion Worlds CEO Scott Hartsman stated that RIFT's retention rate is "astounding" compared to the rest of the MMO...

It's no secret that EVE Online has always been a primarily PvP-focused game, with thousands of players smashing fleets of ships together on a daily basis....

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Chronicles of Elyria reached the minimum goal of its Kickstarter -- $900,000 -- with over 7,000 donors and...

On this week's Massively OP podcast, both Justin and I expressed surprise that Chronicles of Elyria's Kickstarter has done so well -- it certainly...

WildStar is still on the way to Steam, you'll be happy to hear, at least if you've been following NCsoft's latest quarterly financials. Carbine's...

I'm going to be blunt: I don't feel like a Blizzard fan. I know that may sound odd from the guy who plays Hearthstone more than any other writer on...

Battle-hardened soldiers and Hobbits are being called into a special service for Lord of the Rings Online this week. Turbine has put out a...

Trion Worlds has just announced that Atlas Reactor enters Steam's early access program today. The launch begins with a sale; the game will run...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, the story-driven MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria stormed Kickstarter Keep and is still going strong. It raised a third of...

The impact of Myst's launch in 1993 was akin to an atomic bomb going off in the PC gaming world. The leap forward in graphical...

Even as trial players are pouring into EVE Online to enjoy the free weekend on Steam, some are having difficulty taking advantage of this...