Con in Cologne, Germany, usually in August every year.
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The MOP Up: Overhit sunsets in Korea
Nexon's Overhit is fading quickly from the mobile MMO scene. Its global servers were shut down earlier this year, leaving only the Korean and...
Sea of Thieves’ Vaults of the Ancients update brings a rich new voyage and quality-of-life on September 9
While Sea of Thieves is quite literally going to the dogs in September, the latest news bulletin from the devs has...
Multiplayer survival shooter Vigor announces launch dates for PS4 and PS5, free-to-play arrival on Nintendo Switch
Apparently there's a demand from fans of the multiplayer shooter Vigor to arrive to more consoles, and developer Bohemia Interactive is meeting that...
Fluffy dogs adventuring with salty dogs: Sea of Thieves’ September update introduces dogs
During this year's Gamescom, Sea of Thieves executive producer Joe Neate offered up a little video rundown of what players can expect...
Gamescom 2020: Dual Universe gives you five minutes in heaven
Cinematic trailers are all well and good, but when it comes to getting a handle on how a title actually functions, there's nothing quite...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is launching on October 27
And we have a launch date, fam! It's been announced at the start of gamescom's digital incarnation this year that World of Warcraft:...
Gamescom 2020: WoW Shadowlands’ launch date, Star Wars Squadrons’ new trailer
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Forced to go digital thanks to the global pandemic, Gamescom 2020...
Gamescom posts its viewing schedule ahead of tomorrow’s digital events
Back in April, the organizers behind Gamescom made the wise decision to not to play plague god but instead take the trade show...
MMO Business Roundup: GDC 2021, Netmarble, NYCC, voice actors, Gamescom, Steam’s autumn festival
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
GDC 2021: Fresh off the digital GDC Summer 2020, Informa Tech announced that its...
Iron Harvest is a multiplayer RTS set in a robot-filled 1920s era, now in open beta
Developer KING Art Games and publisher Deep Silver have dared to ask, "What if the Polish-Soviet War had robots in it?" That's the...
Massively Overthinking: Contemplating the never-ending summer of not-E3
A couple of weeks back, I was reading a piece on RPS that jokingly lamented the way the game reveals of this summer have...
MMO Business Roundup: Guerilla Collective, PlayStation Studios, XLGAMES’ new MMO, ChinaJoy, and NCsoft’s baseball team
Welcome back to another roundup of business stories relating to MMOs - or adjacent to them. Adjacentness!
Funcom: The Norwegian MMO company will be...
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: 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...
COVID-19 Roundup: EVE Online’s huge influx of newbies, live Gamescom is probably toast
Welcome back to another roundup of how MMOs and the gaming industry are faring and fronting during the COVID-19 pandemic.
First up: CCP's Hilmar Pétursson...
Coronavirus roundup: GamesCom 2020 is still planned for August – for now
With GDC and E3 closing their doors, you might be wondering about GamesCom 2020, originally set for August this summer. Will the coronavirus...
EVE Vegas 2019: CCP and Hadean announce a third EVE Aether Wars event for November
Ahead of EVE Vegas today, CCP Games has announced a third go-round of EVE Aether Wars. Gamers will recall that's the tech partnership...
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...
Sea of Thieves announces a Creator Crew program to help support the game’s content creators
The weekly dev update video from Sea of Thieves and executive producer Joe Neate has offered up some preliminary details of a Creator...
Square Enix vows to support Final Fantasy XIV instead of working on another MMO sequel
Regular readers will note that Final Fantasy XIV earned our MMORPG of the Year award last year, with many of the staff...
