covid-19
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2020: Blizzard MAUs flat at 32M, but revenue jumps ahead of Shadowlands
It won't surprise you, given the current global health crisis, that a large portion of Activision-Blizzard's first quarter revenue report and conference call focused...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 270: Words of Warcraft
Justin and Bree discuss Age of Conan, Defiance, World of Warcraft, Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars 2, and COVID-19 delays, with adventures in SWG Legends, LOTRO, and Fallout 76, and mailbag topics on Blizzard and freeform character building.
Massively Uplifting: Communities and companies bolster COVID-19 relief and mental health support
April showers of good deeds bring May flowers of comfort and hope. And after the last couple of months, we sure could use a...
World of Warships will commemorate the end of WWII with a virtual naval parade
The 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe is coming, and while the novel coronavirus pandemic has changed how celebrations...
LOTRO Legendarium: Wells of Langflood, River-hobbits, and free questing
With major content updates only coming to Lord of the Rings Online two or three times a year now, it's a big deal when...
Star Citizen just canceled this year’s CitizenCon 2950 thanks to the pandemic
Add Star Citizen's CitizenCon 2950 to the growing pile of major MMO and gaming events that have been dislodged from the calendar this year...
Mark Jacobs says Camelot Unchained’s 90-day plan is still on track
Camelot Unchained's latest newsletter has arrived, and the key component homes right in on battlegrounds. "While we’ve had scenarios in Camelot Unchained before to...
GDC Summer, Dota 2’s The International, and Fortnite’s World Cup suffer fresh setbacks thanks to the pandemic
More bad news for gaming convention-goers and esports fans: Everything is canceled. OK, not everything, but a lot. And not canceled, but postponed or...
COVID-19 roundup: Rockstar and Jagex help save the UK’s National Videogame Museum and more
COVID-19 is still very much a thing in most of our staff's and readers' lives, and it's still very much impacting the games industry.
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Guild Wars 2’s next living story episode, No Quarter, will launch without voice acting thanks to the pandemic
While business is booming for online games during this pandemic-related quarantine, story-centric MMORPGs seem to be having trouble getting specific types of work done...
Bethesda donates a total of $1 million to COVID-19 relief efforts
While Bethesda, ZeniMax Media, and its other games studios are all about making games to keep people entertained and safe at home, the company...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends players share messages of support and goodwill
These are still very weird times we live in as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to roll along, and now more than ever communities of...
SuperData March 2020: Digital games spending sets achieves new highs thanks to COVID-19
Back in in March, when SuperData was discussing February's monthly gaming revenue numbers, the analysis firm noted that COVID-19 hadn't yet had much impact...
PAX West 2020 is still tentatively on amid COVID-19 while GameStop re-opens
Just yesterday on the podcast we were saying that there was no way PAX West was going to happen this year, at least not in...
COVID-19 roundup: Teaching disease prevention in WoW Elysium, more sports turn to esports
It's time once again to gather up a swath of gaming news that has sprung up due to the ongoing novel coronavirus epidemic, and...
Overwatch honors a fan on the medical front lines of the COVID-19 outbreak
Overwatch esports has many fans, but the devs felt that some special mention should go towards one fan in particular, a woman by the...
San Diego Comic Con is officially cancelled this year thanks to COVID-19
It looks like the novel coronavirus has once again successfully put the kibosh on another major convention here in the US. San Diego Comic...
Roblox will stream the One World: Together At Home event tomorrow
Let's be real, the campaign slogans for the games studio efforts to fight COVID-19 have started getting a bit ridiculous. Play Apart Together. Stay...
Massively Overthinking: MMO business models in the face of recession
MOP reader Sray posed us an interesting question this past week focused on how MMO business models interface with the global economy. "The last major...
COVID-19: Gamescom goes digital, Star Trek Online honors medics, Raph Koster tackles pandemic denialism
Welcome back to another roundup of how MMOs and the gaming industry are handling the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yesterday we reported on the news that Germany...
