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MMO Hype Train: Is there any hope – or hype – left for Camelot Unchained?
If there's any developer alive who knows realm-vs-realm MMO design better than Mark Jacobs, I haven't met him or her. Jacobs and Mythic Entertainment...
Dauntless is officially sunsetting following the layoff of the team back in January
I'm sorry to report this afternoon that Phoenix Labs' Dauntless is closing down.
The sunset news came in the form of a brief tweet this...
Evercore Heroes is back as Evercore Heroes Ascension with a free Steam Next Fest demo
Don't call it a comeback - or maybe do! Evercore Heroes: Ascension will enable all gamers to download and play the new demo of...
Marvel Rivals talks up its mid-season update’s new characters and map in the shadow of major layoffs
Marvel Rivals is possibly hoping that a bit of bread and circus will be distracting enough to smokebomb the fact that NetEase fired employees...
Riot Games’ Marc Merrill says the Riot MMO is the project he personally spends the most time on
Generally, we'd advise you to take anything Riot's Marc Merrill says about the Riot MMO with a grain of salt, as Merrill has a...
As player numbers soar, NetEase lays off the American Marvel Rivals team
Marvel Rivals has been the darling of team shooters this season, so of course that means NetEase is laying off the western team? The...
Realm Royale and Divine Knockout officially sunset, SMITE 2 adds Achilles to the roster
The end of last year spelled the official death knell for Realm Royale Reforged and Divine Knockout as Hi-Rez Studios confirmed both games would...
MMO Business Roundup: Olympic esports, Unity layoffs, and Krafton Q4 2024 financials
Welcome back for a quick roundup of some of the MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news bits from the week!
Esports: If for some reason you...
NCsoft Q4 2024: Guild Wars 2 and Blade & Soul are doing great, with Aion 2 waiting in the wings
The MMO company financial news just keeps coming this week as now we've got NCsoft's Q4 2024 financial report, and no, this one isn't...
‘We’re not giving up on SMITE 2’ says executive producer after Hi-Rez layoffs
The most recent round of layoffs at Hi-Rez Studios destabilized not only the current team but also fan faith in its product line. Of...
The beta for early access tiny MMO Book of Travels preps a patch with a handful of bug fixes
Around MOP, we're still a bit sad that Book of Travels didn't really take off. It was a unique low-combat "tiny MMO" from Might...
SMITE studio Hi-Rez is going through its second round of layoffs in four months
Bad news for fans of Hi-Rez's remaining multiplayer games: The company is apparently undergoing another round of layoffs. We say "another" because Hi-Rez just did...
Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2025?
You know, you're not reading this piece until January, but I sat down to write it ahead of the turn of the year, when...
Following painful layoffs, Camelot Unchained is apparently still planning to resurface in Q1 2025
Earlier this month, we expressed serious concern over the fate of Camelot Unchained when it became clear that studio Unchained Entertainment had laid off...
The Division 2 now says The Battle for Brooklyn DLC will launch in 2025
Earlier this week, following news that Ubisoft's was laying off another 185 people affecting four studios in Europe, the The Division 2 team -...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 503: The Quinfail
Justin and Bree discuss The Quinfall's messy early access, Camelot Unchained's worrisome future, New World's broken servers, and Throne and Liberty's server merge, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallout 76, WoW Classic, Guild Wars 2, and Playnite, plus a mailbag topic on what kind of MMO character template we have IRL.
Following Ubisoft’s latest round of layoffs, The Division 2 delays its next DLC – again
Ubisoft's Division 2 team posted a memo to players this morning that seems like good news but is being read as the opposite. For starters,...
A ‘majority’ of Dauntless and Fae Farm devs at Phoenix Labs have apparently been laid off
We've got bad news for fans of Dauntless and Fae Farm tonight: Studio Phoenix Labs posted to Linkedin that its owners have "made the tough...
Ubisoft is laying off another 185 game devs in Europe
The bad news for Ubisoft just keeps rolling this week as the company has admitted it's laying off another 185 people and closing down...
Camelot Unchained studio Unchained Entertainment reportedly laid off 40% of its devs
We've got some bad news for fans and followers of Camelot Unchained: It appears that Mark Jacobs' studio Unchained Entertainment has lost a large...
