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Tencent’s World of Warcraft clone, Tarisland, plans global rollout
The vacuum created by World of Warcraft's closure in China back in January created an opportunity for a new title to fill that void:...
Activision-Blizzard and NetEase’s breakup was caused by long-brewing disputes and alleged threats
One of the biggest MMO and gaming stories capping off the end of 2022 and spilling over into the start of 2023 was the...
Could an AI bot do a better job as a games company CEO than an actual human?
That headline's not an idle question: Chinese gaming company NetDragon decided to give it a try. Last August, NetDragon, which runs multiple MMOs including...
The MOP Up: SWTOR gets swoopy and plaguey in March
Star Wars: The Old Republic may not have a big patch coming out this month, but the MMO does have a couple of events...
Whatever happened to PixArk, Ship of Fools, and Justice Online?
Welcome back to another edition of Whatever Happened To, our intermittent roundup on MMOs and multiplayer games that have somehow slipped off our radar...
Conqueror’s Blade new update, Eternal, takes the battle to ancient China
It's a fresh season for MY.GAMES' Conqueror's Blade as Eternal launched today with a new game mode dubbed Escalation that includes an ancient-China-themed campaign,...
Pearl Abyss Q4 2022: Revenues decline as Black Desert and EVE hold steady and Crimson Desert malingers
Pearl Abyss posted its Q4 2022 financials this week, and unlike some of its regional counterparts whose chief interest is China or South Korea,...
Q4 2022: Nexon counts huge YOY revenue boost, pushes harder into blockchain
Nexon's Q4 2022 financial figures are the latest to arrive this week, as CEO Owen Mahoney presided over a mostly decent quarter for the...
WoW Factor: Blizzard’s latest earnings report was mixed news for World of Warcraft
On one level, the most interesting thing that came out of the most recent earnings call for Activision-Blizzard was how much stuff the company...
World of Tanks details its new clan battle-centered War Gods event arriving February 13
Players of World of Tanks are probably familiar with Clan Wars, the global map battle mode where clans vie to capture and hold provinces...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 406: Ulduar and Umbar
Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard vs. NetEase and the demise of WoW China, Wrath Classic, FFXIV 6.3, and LOTRO's 2023 roadmap, with adventures in LOTRO and ESO, plus a mailbag topic on the future of Blizzard.
Blizzard’s Proletariat ends bid to unionize after unionbusting tactics succeed
Activision-Blizzard's latest efforts to head off worker unions were apparently successful: Union group Communication Workers of America has ended its bid to launch a...
Albion Online launches an Asian server on March 20 with multiple founder packs
Albion Online, recipient of our own Best PvP MMO award two years running, is expanding its horizons eastward with an Asian server launching on...
NetEase slams Blizzard China’s last-minute WoW proposal as ‘brash, unseemly and commercially illogical’
Earlier this week, Blizzard China took to social media to suggest to Chinese World of Warcraft players that NetEase is to blame for the...
Get a first peek at Tencent’s new Chinese WoW clone, Tarisland
I know you'll be shocked to hear it, but people like World of Warcraft enough to try to clone it! Oh, what's that? We...
Blizzard claims NetEase rejected a license extension to keep Chinese games (including WoW) up another six months
When Blizzard and NetEase announced the dissolution of their long-running publishing partnership in China - and the sunset of almost all of Blizzard's games...
NetEase lays off staffers who were working on Blizzard games in China
Lest we forget, the falling out between NetEase and Blizzard has a toll greater than either company's bottom line; it also saw a human...
WoW Dragonflight PTR datamining pinpoints account-saving features for Chinese players
Last month we reported on potential next steps for Chinese World of Warcraft players who were being left in the lurch as a result...
The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2022
2022 marks the fifth year in a row we've done this roundup, but the Daily Grind has been a recurring mini-column here on MassivelyOP...
NetEase space adventure Infinite Langrage officially launches on PC
After a year on mobile, NetEase's multiplayer space sim Infinite Langrage rolled out on the PC yesterday with user interface optimizations. The studio said...
