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Destiny 2 prepares for Heresy’s next act, collabs with Sea of Thieves, and discusses efforts to retain players
Even though this year's Game Developers Conference is long gone, we're still getting peeks at how the gaming sausages are made in many respects,...
Echoes of Elysium unveils a standalone airship builder, Bellwright confirms launch on Xbox
Snail Games USA wasn't focused only on its major dino survival sandbox at GDC this year; it also had some new reveals for airship-focused...
Helldivers 2 makes another round of balance changes and releases a Wild West-themed warbond
The enemies of Super Earth have yee'd their last haw in Helldivers 2 as the co-op multiplayer shooter has plum gotten itself a rootin'...
Fallout 76’s OG lead artist discusses how he fought to embiggen the game’s map pre-launch
The Game Developers Conference hasn't just been a place where members of the c-suite pontificate about industry-related things; it's also been a stage for...
The First Descendant celebrates surviving a bad Metacritic score by teasing season 3: The Breakthrough
At GDC this week, Nexon ran a session on what it's characterizing as the redemption arc of The First Descendant, the MMO-ish looter-shooter that...
Spry Fox has finally named what it once called its ‘non-violent MMO project’: Spirit Crossing
We don't often have occasion to cover Spry Fox here in the MMO world, but readers might remember that way back in 2021, the...
ARK Aquatica is a ‘non-canonical’ DLC map for ARK Survival Evolved arriving in June
Yesterday we gathered together the slightly chaotic news pouring from Studio Wildcard related to ARK: Survival Ascended's next major update, which saw the studio...
Palworld’s latest update released crossplay, the Global Palbox, and the cosmetic armor system
Last week, Palworld announced that a forthcoming update would engage crossplay and let Pals transfer between worlds but wouldn't specify when that would be...
For Science: GDC’s annual gamedev survey reflects anger with layoffs, disdain for gen AI
GDC's annual survey of the devs in the game industry is out today, with data reflecting polling and comments from over 3000 game developers.
"The...
Blizzard’s 2024 infographic is light on useful info, but gamers did play 8.34B hours in Blizz games this year
Blizzard president Johanna Faries penned a dev blog to the Blizzard community last night, with kind words for players and developers alongside one of...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MOP stories of 2024
As you're reading this, it's Thanksgiving night, and the end-of-the-year insanity is about to begin. You're going to be treated to a whole ton...
Unleashed’s MMORPG Haven is aimed at parents who grew up playing EverQuest and WoW
Back in February, we covered an upcoming but low-key crossplatform MMORPG called Haven by an indie studio called Unleashed games, whose star-studded dev team...
Roblox walks back statements that children earning money is a ‘gift’ and not exploitation of labor
Roblox's PR department has found itself in the unenviable position of providing cover for some dumb nonsense an executive said at GDC this year....
Blizzard’s John Hight on using AI to support World of Warcraft’s artists, not replace them
Franchise director John Hight might have spent some of his GDC time last month drawing a mystery line for World of Warcraft subscriber numbers,...
New World’s Scot Lane talks Summer Game Fest announcement timing and Amazon support
As we noted this morning, New World's Season of the Guardian is live today - in fact, it was only a few minutes later...
Chrono Odyssey pitches its time travel format, announces that it’s coming to the Epic Store
In case you haven't devoured every GDC panel from the recent trade show, Chrono Studios popped up during the State of Unreal presentation to...
MMO Business Roundup: The Gearbox sale, GDC 2024, and layoffs for SEGA and Smilegate
Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Embracer - The ailing games giant announced this morning that the rumored...
Dune Awakening discusses MMO size, PvP and PvE, the deep desert, and getting rid of Funcom ‘jank’
Funcom's Joel Bylos was among those in attendance at this year's GDC, which is the stage where he answered questions about the upcoming Dune:...
Amazon team commits to New World and future expansions – but won’t spoil the June secret
As we noted in our Vitae Aeternum column this morning, New World drama has been mounting over the past few weeks. Amazon had delayed...
Playable World’s Raph Koster refutes claim that his book Theory of Fun espouses a regressive agenda
Reading comprehension is an important skill that one could argue is being lost to the flood of hot takes and those who absorb only...
