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MMO Business Roundup: Guild Wars’ art book, Day of Dragons drama, Red Dead hackers, FogBank layoffs, and more
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Guild Wars' art book: If you happened to read our swag guide ahead of...
Echo of Soul is on sale for less than a dollar on Steam until January 20
Attention bargain hunters: A blue light special that can very likely be seen from space is now on for the early access MMO Echo...
China is cracking down on online games and streaming even more with ‘Healthy China 2030’
Even setting aside the Blitzchung fiasco that sent China's video game industry into the spotlight at the tail end of 2019, the western games...
A new mobile spinoff of Final Fantasy XV is in development for worldwide release
So this is interesting. While it appears that Square-Enix has largely backed off from pre-launch attempts at making Final Fantasy XV into an ongoing...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2020
All right, 2019. We're done with you. We're moving on. We're in a whole new decade. We've got a brand-new year full of new...
MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2019: Fat chocobos and daddies
Today we're working through our countdown of Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2019!
Coming in at #3 on our list is...
FFXIV players stuff themselves...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO news stories of 2019
When we sit back to look at the biggest headlines of the year, we don't have to look far. These are the stories that...
EVE Evolved: First impressions of the EVE Echoes mobile beta
EVE Online has been a PC MMO staple now for over 16 years, carving out a niche for itself as a long-term hobby with...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2019
Earlier this week, we granted our formal award for the biggest MMO story of the year. But biggest doesn't necessarily mean best or most...
Tencent will host a cloud version of Blade & Soul in China soon
It's possible that the hacking cough that was Google Stadia's launch has turned you off from the notion that cloud gaming is the future,...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2019
It's long-since become a multi-year and fun tradition on Massively OP to do an end-of-year recap of the best and worst MMO dev quotes...
An MMO character ‘worth’ $1.4M was sold in China for $552
So here's a fun story of people being particularly... odd. Let's go with odd. Player A, hereafter referred to as "Scrooge McDuck," spends the...
Hypercute mobile MMO Lumia Saga begins global iOS and Android pre-registration
Chinese studio Century Game claims its new MMO is "the cutest MMORPG you'll ever play," and those are fighting words in a world with...
Activision-Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick downplays the role of politics in games
Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick clearly doesn't fear the Blizzard boycott that is still technically ongoing following Blizzard's October decision to penalize a Hearthstone esports...
Tencent made bank in Q3 2019 thanks to mobile – not PC – games
While companies like Blizzard are seeing severe revenue drops this quarter and other MMO companies are trudging along, Tencent is having a rather up...
Funcom Q3 2019: Amid revenue drop and Tencent stock buy-up, Funcom is working on multiple new games
It was going to be hard for Funcom to top its 2018 financials, given that it rolled out Conan Exiles last year but has...
Improbable and Tencent join forces to bring SpatialOS and a developer program to China
It would appear that Improbable, the company behind SpatialOS, is hedging its bets on China. Improbable announced that it will be working with Tencent...
China is really adding that youth gaming curfew and block on sex and gore in games
Sometimes it's easy to forget that gamers over in China have it very different than we do in the west. If you need a...
Vague Patch Notes: Ethics, PR stunts, and the BlizzCon apology
Are you all really tired of talking about ethics and Blizzard in the same sentence? I am too, but a large part of that...
BlizzCon protesters remain unmoved by Blizzard apology as industry groups propose unified esports principles
If anyone was curious, no, many of the folks who protested BlizzCon live and in the flesh were not swayed by Blizzard President J....
