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Pearl Abyss Q1 2024: Revenues hold steady as Crimson Desert gears up for reveals
Pearl Abyss makes its English financials website a bit of a navigation nightmare, but the company's Q1 2024 earnings presentation is indeed up -...
Broken Ranks introduces craftable epic weapons and plans another fan convention
Broken Ranks is one of those rare MMOs that forges its own unique path, and this year's journey down that path has taken it...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 467: The end of an ArcheAge
Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge's sunset, the cancellation of BlizzCon 2024, Escape from Tarkov's no good very bad day, Age of Water's early access launch, and the 20th anniversary of City of Heroes, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, Fallout 4, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on defensive characters in MMOs and whether Crowfall has any kind of future.
IGN Live joins a long list of games industry events filling the June E3 hype void
The death of E3 has left quite a spring and summer hype vacuum for the games industry to try to fill - and Geoff...
WoW Factor: Exit BlizzCon, for good this time?
Back in 2021, we learned that there was not going to be a BlizzCon 2022. This did not surprise me, and I penned a...
As Warcraft turns 30, Blizzard has preemptively canceled BlizzCon for 2024
Well, you can read the headline: There's no BlizzCon this year after all, in spite of the fact that this is Warcraft's 30th anniversary...
The MOP Up: FFXIV recaps its PAX East appearance
In case you missed it in person, you can catch up with all of Final Fantasy XIV's PAX East 2024 developments in a recap...
WoW Factor: What’s a Mists of Pandaria remix and why is World of Warcraft doing it?
In hindsight, I feel like I was gentler toward Season of Mastery than I should have been. World of Warcraft has turned everything into...
Roblox walks back statements that children earning money is a ‘gift’ and not exploitation of labor
Roblox's PR department has found itself in the unenviable position of providing cover for some dumb nonsense an executive said at GDC this year....
The Elder Scrolls Online updates its 2024 roadmap as its 10th anniversary rolls on
ZeniMax Online Studios is understandably making the 10th anniversary of Elder Scrolls Online a memorable one. Hot on the heels of a March celebration...
Pax Dei’s upcoming 100K-player alpha announces server info to help groups and guilds plan
The days are counting down to Pax Dei's second alpha test, officially dubbed the "Wilderness Alpha" and scheduled to kick off this April 23rd....
Classic EverQuest announces two new time-locked progression servers, Teek and Tormax, launching May 22
It'd be tempting to assume that EverQuest's producer's letter would just mirror EverQuest II's earlier this week, as Darkpaw head of studio Jenn Chan...
Hearthstone launches co-op Battlegrounds Duos with April 16’s season 7
Blizzard has taken the stress-free packaging off its new Hearthstone toy, announcing the impending launch of Battlegrounds Duos, which the team first previewed at...
EverQuest II announces a new 2006-era progression server called Origins, hitting beta in May
The latest EverQuest II producer's letter has arrived, and while the majority of it is recap of things you already knew about - like...
For Science: EVE Online’s Project Discovery initiative opens signups for mobile testing
At EVE Fanfest last fall, CCP Games announced that its latest Project Discovery push would essentially set EVE Online players to training AI in...
New World’s Scot Lane talks Summer Game Fest announcement timing and Amazon support
As we noted this morning, New World's Season of the Guardian is live today - in fact, it was only a few minutes later...
Chrono Odyssey pitches its time travel format, announces that it’s coming to the Epic Store
In case you haven't devoured every GDC panel from the recent trade show, Chrono Studios popped up during the State of Unreal presentation to...
LOTRO and DDO are still offline after 24 hours, so you might as well watch DDO’s PAX East panel
If you tried logging into Lord of the Rings Online or Dungeons and Dragons Online since yesterday morning, you're in for a bit of...
MMO Business Roundup: The Gearbox sale, GDC 2024, and layoffs for SEGA and Smilegate
Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Embracer - The ailing games giant announced this morning that the rumored...
Dune Awakening discusses MMO size, PvP and PvE, the deep desert, and getting rid of Funcom ‘jank’
Funcom's Joel Bylos was among those in attendance at this year's GDC, which is the stage where he answered questions about the upcoming Dune:...
