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Coronavirus drives DCUO to beg off a ComicCon, but E3 planning is ‘full speed’ ahead
When the "impact of the coronavirus on gaming" stories pile up into a roundup, you know it's bad news.
First, Daybreak and Dimensional Ink announced...
Wisdom of Nym: That’s a very large fan festival you got there, Final Fantasy XIV
Odd as it might be to say, I don't really have a lot more to say just yet about tomorrow's patch for Final Fantasy...
Fallout 76’s Wastelanders update will finally launch on April 7 – here’s the new trailer
As it turns out, the Wastelanders delay from 2019 to 2020 wasn't just a brief one: Bethsoft announced this morning that Fallout 76's big...
The Game Archaeologist: The rise of Guild Wars
In early 2005, World of Warcraft mania was rising exponentially, month over month. But even as Blizzard's MMO juggernaut barreled toward its full strength...
MMO Business Roundup: Stadia, Coronavirus, E3, VR, EVE Fanfest, Discord, and WOTC’s BioWare devs
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Stadia: Google has responded to the uproar over its poor communication with the Stadia...
Path of Exile lays out development plans for its next four expansions, 4.0.0, and mobile
This year looks to be a loaded one for Grinding Gear Games and Path of Exile fans. The devs have offered up a preliminary...
ESA responds to Sony’s skipping of E3 2020, saying the show will be ‘high-energy’
So if you missed the news due to it generally being shrug-worthy, it turns out that Sony has decided to skip out on E3...
Fallout 76 previews Wastelanders’ City of the Future, preps weekend double XP
OK, Fallout 76, it's a new year, a new decade, and hopefully a new you, with your many 2019 trainwrecks behind us, Fallout First...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO surprises of 2019
After 10 years of covering MMORPG news, I can assure you that I am still fired up to keep doing this. One of the...
Massively Overthinking: What MMO were you hoping to hear much more about this year?
Going through our coverage of 2019's MMOs, I realized there are a bunch of games that have previously been on our "anticipated" lists that...
Perfect Ten: Counting Fallout 76’s many post-nuclear flubs
I'll admit that I was the first one out of my seat, applauding wildly, when Fallout 76 was first announced at Bethesda's E3 showcase...
RuneScape 2019: RuneScape’s focus on community shines in Golden Globes and cosplay
What is RuneFest? We have reported on the announcements, but that's the convention actually like? As I had only attended RuneScape's 15th anniversary before,...
The Game Archaeologist: Funcom’s long-abandoned Midgard MMO
There used to be a time that Funcom was deeply into the MMORPG business, bringing us titles such as Anarchy Online, Age of Conan,...
Black Desert Mobile opens pre-registration on iOS and Android as downloads swell to 10M
Pearl Abyss has been teasing Black Desert Mobile's global launch for the better part of 2019, promising at E3 that it'll hit global devices...
Mavericks’ abrupt July sunset was preceded by a revoked SpatialOS loan
Remember back in July, when Automaton Games announced it was shutting down Mavericks, a "massive" battle royal that was aiming to put 1000 people...
PWE’s mobile sandbox MMO ReEvolve resurfaces with new pics and promises
Back in 2018, Perfect World brought a couple of new games to E3, one of them being ReEvolve. At the time, it was described...
Vague Patch Notes: Do video games really need trade shows anymore?
The past few years have seen some really big seismic shifts in the game industry. In the time that I've been working here alone,...
E3 2020 wants more consumers, more celebrities, and to pay major media outlets to ‘control the message’
E3 is looking to be a completely different show in 2020 if the plan slides distributed today mean anything. Pitch slides and details shared...
Torchlight II has officially launched for Switch, PS4, and Xbox One today
In last week's WRUP, I mentioned playing a thing I couldn't talk about on my Switch. Now I can because 2012 ARPG Torchlight II...
The ESA’s 2019 E3 journalist database breach wasn’t at all a one-time thing
Last weekend, we learned that the Electronic Software Association, the US's biggest video game lobby backed by some of the biggest companies in the...
