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NCsoft Q4 2024: Guild Wars 2 and Blade & Soul are doing great, with Aion 2 waiting in the wings

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The MMO company financial news just keeps coming this week as now we've got NCsoft's Q4 2024 financial report, and no, this one isn't...

Kakao Q4 2024: Mobile drives revenue dip as Kakao queues up ArcheAge Chronicles and Chrono Odyssey

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Kakao Games did not have the best quarter, and the "why" is complicated. According to the Korean games giant's Q4 2024 financials, its PC segment...

MMO Business Roundup: ESA’s tariff statement, the LA wildfires, and EA’s Battlefield Labs

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business. LA wildfires: If you followed the LA wildfires closely last month,...
Wild monster trucks couldn't drag me away.

UK rebuffs game preservationists’ petition to make retroactively breaking old games unlawful

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One of the big industry-wide narratives that emerged from the wreckage of 2024 was player-initiated efforts to center game preservation - indeed, even to...

The MOP Up: Stardew Valley’s creator isn’t quite done with the game yet

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Stardew Valley hasn't reached the end of its development cycle. So when will Stardew Valley's creator stop working on the game? "If I feel like it's...

The Division 2 now says The Battle for Brooklyn DLC will launch in 2025

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Earlier this week, following news that Ubisoft's was laying off another 185 people affecting four studios in Europe, the The Division 2 team -...

Blade & Soul NEO is launching February 25 following a week-long character creation event

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Just two weeks ago, NCsoft America announced that not only is Blade & Soul NEO launching in the west but the game is opening...

Guild Wars 2 has finally updated its region transfer system, but it’s not gonna make anyone happy

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Last March, following one of Guild Wars 2's world restructuring beta events, ArenaNet told players that it was planning to update its system for...
Hunt a man.

Following Ubisoft’s latest round of layoffs, The Division 2 delays its next DLC – again

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Ubisoft's Division 2 team posted a memo to players this morning that seems like good news but is being read as the opposite. For starters,...

Ubisoft is laying off another 185 game devs in Europe

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The bad news for Ubisoft just keeps rolling this week as the company has admitted it's laying off another 185 people and closing down...

LOTRO community fansite creates a housing transfer FAQ while it waits for the official version

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With the big launch of Lord of the Rings Online's four new 64-bit servers -- two in the US and two in Europe --...

MapleStory Worlds goes from a global soft launch to a full launch

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What's the true difference between a "soft" launch and the regular thing? Probably only the number of potential excuses that can be made for...

LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s new servers are going to be an exciting mess

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After sending us into conniptions with partial information about Lord of the Rings Online's newly announced 64-bit servers, Standing Stone Games' Rob Ciccolini cleared...

Blade & Soul NEO is finally en route to the west – pre-registration and buyables are live today

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Last week, you may have picked up on the rumor that Blade & Soul NEO had scored a new English website. Well, it was...

LOTRO Legendarium: Digging into LOTRO’s 2025 roadmap and new server panic

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There's nothing like being far away from home on a late-December vacation only to get the notice that, hey, Lord of the Rings Online...

Lord of the Rings Online’s 2025 roadmap includes an expansion and new 64-bit servers

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I'm sorry but what is this - a Lord of the Rings Online roadmap published before Christmas?! I might still be scarred from the...

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2024

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You know, this traditional end-of-the-year roundtable shouldn't be a thing. We've been doing this such a long time and getting so much coverage on...

Grab a King of Meat alpha test key courtesy of Amazon and Glowmade – alpha is live right now!

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Back in August, Amazon and Glowmade took the wraps off a new co-op dungeon-runner called King of Meat, and I think you can tell...
And now we're good,yes?

Now XLGAMES is sunsetting the Korean version of ArcheAge too

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Well, Korean players could probably see the writing on the wall when Kakao/XLGAMES shuttered ArcheAge here in the west earlier this year, but now...

Pantheon lists its 22 early access launch servers opening on December 13

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With launch day for Pantheon's early access coming in just a couple weeks on December 13th, potential players are running out of time to...

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