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China is approving games again, but none of them is from Tencent or Netease
After nearly a year of being frozen, China's approval process for games lurched into life once more in December, with 80 titles approved in...
WoW Factor: The great Superdata fall-off
The one down side to working ahead is that sometimes your schedule gets nudged around more than expected. I promise that a further look...
China’s Online Games Ethics Committee lifts year-long ‘freeze’ on game licenses but bars multiple games
As MMO players will recall, in March of this year, the Chinese government put a freeze on reviewing and approving video games for domestic...
Perfect World Entertainment confirms Steam China deal
Earlier this year, we reported on the surprise announcement that Perfect World Entertainment was in talks with Valve to bring Steam into China. It's...
MMO Business Roundup: Chinese vs Western gamers, devs against Brexit, and lockboxes as gambling in Australia
Welcome back to another quick trip through some of this week's gaming business tidbits.
Profiling Chinese gamers
Quantic Foundry, the Nick Yee research firm that studies...
Lost Ark is rumored to start Chinese beta testing soon
The mess that has been the Chinese game industry shutdown is affecting every corner of the world, but it's not really a shock that...
Blizzard sources dish on Warcraft Go, Diablo IV, Diablo Immortal, China, and Activision’s culture shift
Kotaku has a wild article up today ahead of the holiday with input from nearly a dozen anonymous current and former Blizzard employees spilling...
Enter to win a sweet Neverwinter cloak in honor of Heart of Fire for PC
To celebrate the launch of Heart of Fire for Neverwinter on PC last week, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 100 cloak keys to give away to our readers!...
Echo of Soul resurfaces in North America under new publisher
Free-to-play fantasy MMO Echo of Soul has had something of a turbulent existence, to say the least: It first launched back in July of...
Analysts say Diablo Immortal will bring financial success despite fan outrage
Arguably the biggest thing to come out of BlizzCon 2018 was the sheer amount of unadulterated rage solicited by the announcement of Blizzard's upcoming...
Check out some Monster Hunter movie pics from the set courtesy of the stars themselves
Movies based on video games are... well, they're movies. The chance they end up in sometimes top 10 listicle of the worst transmedia synergies...
MMO Business Roundup: Japanese lockboxes, POGO and Square Enix financials, and Prima’s end
"The Good Times Are Over for Japan’s Loot-Box-Style Gaming Bonanza" - that's the brutal headline plonked onto this week's Bloomberg report on Japanese lockboxes....
Tencent is pulling back its marketing budget in response to China’s ongoing game freeze
Tencent has not been weathering the Chinese game block very well. Sure, the company has been doing its best, but a 28% stock drop...
Tencent is expanding draconian ‘healthy gaming’ child blocks across all of its titles
Oof. If you thought RealID was a bad call, point your eyeballs at China, where Tencent has announced it will expand its existing "addiction-prevention"...
MMO Business Roundup: Fractured Space, Runic Games, Michael Jordan esports, Epic investment, and the China problem
Welcome back to another quick trip through some of the week's business bits and bobs.
First up, some bad news. Edge Case's gorgeous F2P MOBA...
MMO Business Roundup: Discord’s new TOS, Steam China, EA vs Actiblizz, Dota 2’s transparent lockboxes, WASD
Welcome back to another roundup of businessy things of interest to MMO players this week!
Discord
If you're one of the bajillions of MMO players who...
EVE Vegas 2018 is this weekend: Here’s what to expect from the show
It's that time of year again when internet spaceship nerds descend on Las Vegas to get incredibly drunk find out what the future holds...
Bless Mobile shows off its character creation in a new video
Hopefully the mess around Bless Online hasn't soured your feelings on the Bless franchise. Yes, franchise; Bless Unleashed is being put forth as a...
PUBG says it’s investigating the matchmaking disaster patched in last week
If you thought last week's PUBG patch, which introduced new anti-cheating measures, was going to make everyone happy with the game finally, you were...
Tencent is working on locking kids out of Chinese games using facial recognition tech
So add this one to your creepy dystopian nightmare-fuel bin: In the war on supposed gaming addiction, at least one corporation is hoping to...
