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Revival and Star Citizen studio IllFonic lays off six
IllFonic, the studio behind the dark fantasy sandbox Revival and one of several contributors to Star Citizen's FPS module, has laid off six staff members,...
Elder Scrolls Online loses two key devs, WoW picks up Moorgard from EQ Next
The MMO industry is a vibrant market that's always shifting as developers move between projects. So who has gone where lately?
For starters, former EverQuest...
Smedley has bright predictions for PlanetSide 2’s future
It's been said before and will be said again a few more times before it's no longer true: Fans of Daybreak games are a...
Perfect World to become privately owned
Perfect World is no longer a publicly traded company, as founder Michael Yufeng Chi made a deal to take the company private.
Chi will take...
Disney’s Club Penguin suffers layoffs
Club Penguin may not be one of the first games you think about when it comes to virtual worlds, but that's kind of a...
Trion snaps up Linda ‘Brasse’ Carlson
Nothing tells your player community that the transition to a new corporate structure will be totally fine like firing a pillar of community interaction,...
NCsoft West lays off Austin support staff
NCsoft West has laid off a number of support staff and is moving its customer service operation to a third-party provider, according to Polygon. Today's...
LOTRO Legendarium: Why you need to read the books if you play the game
While my Kindle is loaded with so many new books I've yet to read that I really should take a few months off to...
Codemasters CEO leaves company to join Jagex
There's a new boss in town at Jagex. Rod Cousens, previously the CEO of Codemasters, has moved shop to be the new CEO of...
Perfect World suffers more layoffs, this time in the EU
Massively OP has been contacted by a former Perfect World employee — who wishes to remain anonymous and whose identity we have confirmed — about...
Cryptic layoffs alone totaled 18 people
Massively OP has been contacted by a Cryptic employee -- who wishes to remain anonymous and whose identity we have confirmed -- about the Perfect...
Perfect World Entertainment hit with potentially massive layoffs
Layoffs have hit Perfect World Entertainment. It was first rumored in a tweet by Ben PerLee, who had previously worked as PR for the...
Daybreak layoffs totaled 140 in San Diego
It's been almost a month since Daybreak (formerly SOE) laid off several of its employees following its acquisition by Columbus Nova, but we're only...
Global Chat: Business model first, game construction second
Welcome back to Global Chat, the column where we reach out and give props to interesting and well-written articles from the MMO blogosphere. Today...
EverQuesting: Daybreak, SOE Live, and the resurrection of Fan Faire
It's been quite a week! And not just for Massively Overpowered. Right as our original site was sunsetting, SOE announced that it was bought...
The Soapbox: Has F2P worked for SOE?
The MassivelyOP staff was discussing the SOE Daybreak armageddon recently, and given the total absence of public data relating to who or what was...
Daybreak’s John Smedley: EverQuest Next is going to be ‘more than ok’
Worried about this week's mass firings of Daybreak employees and wondering what might happen to both Landmark and EverQuest Next? The studio has a...
Daybreak layoffs hit Landmark, EverQuest Next, H1Z1, more
Well, here's a news post I didn't want to write. SOE Daybreak Games has laid off popular Global Community Relations lead Linda Carlson as...