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How Hearthstone challenges mobile free-to-play assumptions
Hearthstone is a successful title on phones and tablets. It's successful all around. And yet if you look within the field of mobile free-to-play...
Crowfall preps core combat test, commits to raising $1M from additional investors
With a large roster of potential classes, how will Crowfall balance it all? By starting small, of course. The devs wrote a new post...
The Daily Grind: How would you run an ethical MMO cash shop?
Today's Daily Grind topic comes to us in a roundabout way from Kickstarter donor Le Entrepreneur, who asks,
Why do MMOs use cash shops they know...
WildStar is going free-to-play this autumn
Critics, current players, former players, people who had briefly heard about the title from friends and family - a lot of people didn't think...
CCP Games buys back $20m in bonds, drops Legion trademark
News is circulating in the EVE Online blogs and forum that developer CCP Games has just bought back $20 million in publicly traded bonds....
Crowfall’s store is (partly) up and running
You have not played enough of Crowfall to form an opinion on how it plays. You haven't. It isn't playable yet. But that doesn't...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has benefited the most from free-to-play?
Back in the day, it used to be a running joke among the staff about which game would go free-to-play next. We don't make...
Top 25 companies accounted for 65 percent of 2014’s $83.6 billion games market
Twenty-five companies accounted for 65 percent of the $83.6 billion games market in 2014, according to a report at Newzoo. Leading the pack was...
NCsoft West lays off Austin support staff
NCsoft West has laid off a number of support staff and is moving its customer service operation to a third-party provider, according to Polygon. Today's...
OnLive shutting down, sells Sony some of its assets
The OnLive cloud gaming service is shutting down, and the firm has sold Sony some of its assets, according to a dev blog.
The OnLive...
NCsoft and Nexon meet to discuss financial issues
Relations between NCsoft and Nexon are not exactly comfortable at the moment; you may remember that it's been only a few months since NCsoft...
Investment firm sees a dark future for WildStar, bright hopes for Guild Wars 2
Korean investment firm KDB Daewoo Securities is not predicting a rosy future for WildStar, although it still is recommending NCsoft as a "buy" prospect....
Director of Design Chris Whiteside leaves Guild Wars 2
Former Guild Wars 2 Director of Design Chris Whiteside has left ArenaNet to pursue other opportunities.
While on a long roadtrip, Whiteside tweeted the news...
PlanetSide 2’s Clint Worley departs Daybreak
Former PlanetSide 2 Executive Producer Clint Worley has left the team and studio, according to a brief announcement by him on Twitter. It is...
Working As Intended: ‘Multiplex monotony’ and the death of the mid-budget MMORPG
Back in December, film editor and author Jason Bailey wrote a piece on Flavorwire called How the Death of Mid-Budget Cinema Left a Generation...
The Daily Grind: Are you optimistic about WildStar’s future?
I'm sure this won't serve as a grand surprise to anyone reading this, but I've been thinking a lot about the future of WildStar...
NCsoft buys Netmarble stock to block hostile takeover by Nexon
How do you prevent a hostile takeover? In NCsoft's case, you buy something. Specifically, you buy a large portion of shares from Netmarble while...
PlanetSide 2 Creative Director Matt Higby resigns from his post
EverQuest Next might be safe according to the head honcho of Daybreak, but PlanetSide 2 is in for a rocky time: PS2 Creative Director Matt...
Nexon pressures NCsoft as largest shareholder
While Nexon and NCsoft may be competing developers in the MMO space, business has made strange and hostile bedfellows of both.
After purchasing enough shares...
Daybreak layoffs hit Landmark, EverQuest Next, H1Z1, more
Well, here's a news post I didn't want to write. SOE Daybreak Games has laid off popular Global Community Relations lead Linda Carlson as...
