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MMO Business Roundup: SAG-AFTRA’s victory, Ubisoft’s shame, Embracer’s leadership
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Voice actor strike: The voice actor union SAG-AFTRA, whose strike against the major...
MMO Hype Train: Palia’s been given a chance to flourish — and it has
Sometimes it takes more than one run at an MMORPG or online game for it to click with you. There are titles that have...
Pax Dei’s major Verse 3 update and wipe will get underway after lengthy downtime June 11
We've finally got a hard date for Pax Dei's next big update: It's coming on June 11th, right in the thick of all the...
Jagex confirms ‘non-game dev’ layoffs, pauses work on Old School RuneScape custom server feature
It's time for a couple of bits of bad news for fans of Old School RuneScape and RuneScape this week, as developer Jagex has...
‘Lots of leadership is gone’: Stewart Chisam and other Hi-Rez leadership have been ousted by the board
The brutal turnover at SMITE 2 developer Hi-Rez this year saw one of its highest-profile departures as studio president Stewart Chisam is on his...
The Division 2 launches its Battle for Brooklyn DLC and Crossroads content update
It's been quite some time since The Division 2 tied down a launch date for its new DLC. Readers will remember that it's been...
Electronic Arts’ return-to-office mandate spurs confusion and worry among games workers
The employees of Electronic Arts - the ones still remaining after recent mass layoffs, anyway - are facing another problem from the developer and...
NCsoft Q1 2025: Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds bump is over, Aion 2 is finally getting a reveal date
Spring financial week continues here on MOP, as we now have the NCsoft quarterly report for Q1 2025. And it wasn't a great quarter,...
Microsoft lays off approximately 6000 workers after a sunny third quarter earnings report
Even if the company's funny line goes up and stock value swells, employee livelihoods are still not safe: Microsoft is putting another large group...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 518: Too much horsing around
Chris, Justin, and Bree discuss Equinox Homecoming's early access, Dune Awakening's beta, Neverwinter's Red Harvest, the former Cryptic MMOs' journey to Discord, Pax Dei's layoffs, and SWTOR's 7.7, with adventures in Palia, Lost Skies, Tower United, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus a mailbag topic on emulators we don't talk about.
Pax Dei is finally talking about its incoming optional subscription model
When Mainframe Industries told Pax Dei players last week that it had undergone a round of significant layoffs but still intended to see the...
Sony announces a new ‘lighthearted’ team shooter set in a new sci-fantasy world
"Didn't Sony just shutter a team-based action game," I asked MOP's Sam when he brought us this news.
"Is it even a major studio if...
Don’t worry, Pax Dei isn’t removing your tapeworms when it wipes early access
If you've been keeping an eye on Pax Dei over the last few weeks, you already knew that a full progression wipe was incoming,...
Pax Dei studio lays off nearly 30% of its team but says the MMORPG is still on track
Well, bad news for Pax Dei fans: Studio Mainframe Industries announced this morning that it's restructuring - which means the layoff of nearly a...
Layoffs have apparently hit Jackalyptic Games, the Jack Emmert studio working on a new Warhammer MMO
We're not sure precisely how bad things may be over at Jackalyptic Games, the Jack Emmert-led dev studio that's working on a Warhammer 40K...
After maintenance-moding Kickstarted tiny MMO Book of Travels, Might & Delight announces Twinkleby
Earlier this year, Book of Travels studio Might & Delight came out with an odd bit of news for the game. It had taken...
Following the sale of Pokemon Go and other games for $3.8B, Niantic is laying off more staff
Just a month ago, we learned that Niantic had secured a deal to sell its games division to Scopely, a US-based studio that is...
After going dark for months, Camelot Unchained will preview its progress in an April stream
MMO players have been worried and frustrated over the state of Camelot Unchained for ages now, but we're finally getting some movement.
Readers will surely...
Marathon’s Twitter account reawakens after six months of silence with more cryptic teases
It has been about six months since Bungie said anything about Marathon, the extraction shooter version of what is otherwise a series of single-player...
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...
