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Bobby Kotick decries ‘aggressive labor movement’ trying to ‘destabilize’ Activision-Blizzard
We're just a few days from the launch of Diablo IV, so naturally Variety has offered up a mushy interview with... Activision-Blizzard's Bobby Kotick,...
Pirate101 launches on Steam today with the Sinbad Chapter 2 update
It's launch day for Pirate101! OK, not exactly. Pirate101 launched in 2012. But it's launching on Steam today, as KingsIsle brings the family-friendly pirate...
Pirate101 keeps up the hype for its May 31 Steam launch and Iron Lotus update
It wasn't too long ago that Pirate101 players were moving from worried to hopeful as the kid-friendly MMO seemed to be entering maintenance mode...
Perfect Ten: 10 old MMO promises that never happened
Developers like to talk a big game. It's expected, it's encouraged by all parties, and it's part of the fun. When a game or...
Choose My Adventure: DDO’s Catacombs offer a classic taste of the MMOs storytelling
Let me start this week's Choose My Adventure on something of a tangent - a parallel one, but a tangent nonetheless. If it wasn't...
Interview: KingsIsle talks Pirate101’s Steam launch, Sinbad Chapter 2, and the future of the game
KingsIsle's Pirate101 is having a bit of a renaissance right now. The high seas-themed sibling MMO to the popular kids game Wizard101 has two...
Final Fantasy XI rotates Ambuscade rewards for the first part of its May version update
The first part of Final Fantasy XI's version update is here for May! It does not contain the finale of the Voracious Resurgence. Or...
EVE Online has suffered chat outages all week (and they’re still happening)
Hello, EVE Online? It's us, your friends and family. We're knocking on your door because we just want to talk... but no one can...
Riot names A. Dylan Jadeja as its new CEO, taking over the company by by the end of 2023
Out with the old, in with the... actually not really all that much newer. That's the process that can be ascribed to the change...
The Daily Grind: Has there ever been an MMO that over time morphed into a game you no longer love?
The temptation with a title like that is to talk about World of Warcraft slowly and inexorably doubling-down on its least fun content year...
MGI’s 2022 financial report is bad news for RIFT and most of Gamigo’s remaining MMOs
Gamigo and KingsIsle parent company MGI recently posted its 2022 financial report, and things aren't looking great for interest and investment into current and...
Wizard101 plows through a bayou while Pirate101 readies the deck for its Sinbad update
It's time for a pair of KingsIsle newsletters, so let's break them down to see what's contained inside! First up with Wizard101, the magical...
Massively on the Go: WalkScape’s Schamppu wants game to walk the fitness walk
It turns out I wasn't alone in WalkScape piquing my curiosity, so those of you who are intrigued by a new RuneScape-inspired walking-centric MMOARG...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO players don’t talk about aging
I turned 40 this year. It's not something that I announced with any particular fanfare, due in no small part to the fact that...
2012 KingsIsle MMO Pirate101 is finally heading to Steam later this month
All right, let's be real, if you're interested in Pirate101 you probably are already playing it and don't need the game to be on...
World of Warcraft’s Hazzikostas discusses cross-faction queued content and class combinations
Let's not bury the lede on this particular World of Warcraft Q&A with game director Ion Hazzikostas: Yes, the team is aware of the...
Standing Stone Games mourns the passing of one of its team members
We have some sad news to report from Standing Stone Games this week, as the studio's community manager Cordovan confirmed on the forums for...
Fortnite’s newest patch kicks off the battle royale’s collab with Attack on Titan
Attack on Titan is the latest anime universe to wriggle its way into the battle royale world of Fortnite. The shooter's newest patch has...
Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street is already forming a new MMO studio
When Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street announced a month ago that he was leaving Riot Games - and the MMORPG his team there was building -...
Wizard101 players are already ruining the fun of its recent Rate My Stitch feature
Sharing glamorous looks is arguably a large part of the fun in MMOs, so when KingsIsle decided to encourage that in Wizard101 with the...
