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The Daily Grind: How long does an MMO have before it’s considered a success or failure?
Watching the latest news about Pokémon Go brought to mind something I still like to say about the MMO industry: It's a marathon, not...
Pokemon Go’s popularity appears to be waning
The mobile ARG powerhouse of Pokémon Go appears to be losing players, and not just drivers who hit people due to focusing on the...
Empyrean Interactive outlines its plans to resurrect the MMO genre
Empyrean Interactive doesn't like the label of making an MMO; as we've covered here before, the studio prefers to frame its future games as...
Atlas Reactor opens up free play for everyone
The business model for Atlas Reactor has undergone a fair number of shifts over time. The latest announcement is that the game will be...
Nexon chairman steps down following corruption indictment
Kim Jung-ju is one of the richest men in South Korea and co-founder of Nexon. He also was chairman at Nexon, but he has...
Valve issues a statement against Steam-based gambling sites
It was more than two weeks ago, and the subsequent weeks have been taken up by all sorts of game announcements and some kind...
Pokemon Go quickly hits the top of the mobile charts
If you're one of the few people left who have missed out on Pokémon Go thus far, you've missed out on the fastest game...
No Man’s Sky goes gold
The bad news for No Man's Sky fans is that the game took longer than expected to be finished and launch was delayed slightly....
Unannounced Diablo project is looking for a game director
So what's going on with Diablo? Something, apparently, as Blizzard is currently hiring a game director for an unannounced Diablo project.
Blizzard told Polygon that...
Kickstarter is pulling in less video game money in 2016
If you're still hoping for Kickstarter as the new future for video game funding, you may well be disappointed to know that it seems...
Trion’s Scott Hartsman speaks out against G2A: ‘Game creators of all sizes survive on your support’
In the wake of accusations about G2A becoming a haven for unscrupulous third-party sellers to move keys bought with stolen credit cards, Trion Worlds...
The Crew boasts five million players
Would you believe that The Crew has five million players? Because apparently it has indeed just hit the five million mark, which is the...
Funcom secures major private investments
If you're a fan of Funcom with a deep amount of concern for the company's long-term health, there's good news to be had today....
Tencent’s new Chinese console includes League of Legends in its lineup
If you've long wished to play League of Legends on a console, we're happy to tell you that this will soon be a thing...
The9 exchanges half of its shares in Red 5 for stake in Cayman Islands cashmere corp
Chinese MMO operator The9 has exchanged about half of its shares in Red 5 for nearly 153.9 million shares of L&A International Holding Limited. The9...
NCsoft Q1 2016: Blade & Soul is booming, WildStar is tumbling
There are good pieces of news from NCsoft's first quarter financial report. For one thing, the company's year-on-year sales, profits, and net income are...
Sacrament preps Patreon after failed Kickstarter, shows off the Thief
Sacrament, the game billing itself as "the evolution of EverQuest," suffered a disappointing Kickstarter in April. After raising a little over $3K of a...
Hearthstone announces 50 million registered players
The latest Hearthstone expansion release coincides with another bombshell for the game, with an official announcement from Activision Blizzard boasting that the game has...
EVE Fanfest 2016: Andie Nordgren on EVE Online’s Citadel expansion launch and beyond
EVE Online's highly anticipated Citadel expansion has now launched, adding a whole new class of player-built structures to the game for corporations to build...
EVE Fanfest 2016: Industrial citadels and drilling platforms in EVE Online
EVE Online's Citadel expansion goes live in just a few days on April 27th, opening the floodgates on a new era of space colonisation for players....
