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Ahead of the annual Game Developers Conference, GDC organizers poll industry workers and release it all in a state-of-the-industry wrapper, which has landed in...

Every year, we give a nod to the biggest MMO story, but in 365 days, a whole lot more happened than just one narrative....

One of my favorite traditions every year is to put a spotlight back on some of the wild things MMORPG developers said every year....

Just before the news about the state litigation against Activision-Blizzard broke last month, Senior Software Engineer Joseph Cochron and Principal Software Engineer Kurtis McCathern...

Nearly a year ago, Niantic employees did a GDC presentation on Augmented Reality design practices, though it seemed a bit more like best practices...

While other gaming conventions do big game reveals, the beauty of GDC is that we hear about some of the cool tech and practices...

You may have noticed that accessibility comes up a lot whenever we cover GDC, and GDC 2021 won't be much different. However, while presentations...

It was an MMO built in about three years, with a miserable launch, a depressing churn rate, and the most infamous patch in all...

One thing I love about a good GDC presentation is when devs bring up those issues that many of us get a funny feeling...

There's a bit of a theme at GDC 2021 concerning online card games, especially TCGs, and smart tech/deep learning AI. At a panel this...

GDC 2021 has now offered several panels on player behavior and cheating that are aimed at devs but still provide some good information for...

Covering studies about video gamers often reveals a glaring problem with the science on the topic: Most of it looks has traditionally surveyed text...

As promised, Nexon has kicked off the Nexon Developers Conference this week, with nearly 50 dev-led sessions on "data analysis, programing, visual art and...

At GDC 2011, Raph Koster gave a talk in which he said, "Games are fundamentally social media and always have been." You can watch...

So we're not having a BlizzCon this year again. Not that one wasn't originally planned or at least in the early stages of planning,...

Back in February, we shared the sad news that composer Stan LePard had passed away. LePard was a renowned musical artist who'd penned music...

Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. GDC's State of the Industry: GDC's annual survey of game developers offers an array...

GDC 2021 has been running this week, but sadly there aren't a lot of relevant panels for MMO or online game enthusiasts. However, it...

At Intel's GDC 2021 panel "Billions of Gamers, Thousands of Needs" this week, Intel and Spirit AI announced a new end-user application designed "to...

As things for Google Stadia continue to fall apart, with internal dev studios shutting down, misleading inter-company communications, and an impending class-action lawsuit from...