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Pax Dei’s Market Square update officially launches tomorrow with gold and market stalls
If you weren't already overloaded with MMO patches, new games, and Christmas events, here's one more: Pax Dei is dropping its massive update, dubbed...
The Daily Grind: Do MMO market undercutters grind your gears?
MOP's Carlo proposed this question for a Daily Grind run: Do MMO market undercutters annoy you? "I undercut the market so I can move...
Lawful Neutral: What’s China really worth to the Western gaming industry?
You know what we never talk about these days? China and video games! We should do that more. For example, did you know that...
Tencent is restructuring amidst continued Chinese game industry woes
Tencent is having a terrible, horrible, no good very bad year so far. Sure, its problems began when Monster Hunter World had to get...
Interview: Neowiz on Bless Online’s tech, class balance, gems, PvP, and more
Neowiz’s Bless has been the subject of much chatter lately (not least of all my own), with its troubled, let's say, launch raising a...
Darkfall: Rise of Agon pushes out market system patch
If the economy is the lifeblood of an MMORPG, then Darkfall: Rise of Agon predicts a healthy prognosis with its new market system patch.
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Virtual reality helps push mobile gaming to new heights
Due to the rise of virtual reality headsets and the support that studios are giving them, market research firm SuperData started including sales of such...
The Daily Grind: Do low-budget imported MMOs have a place in the current market?
The sad news about Asta and ELOA's upcoming closure prompted a musing from longtime commenter GreaterDivinity regarding the import-run-close model that has long been...
EVE Evolved: The consequences of a free-to-play EVE
This week we heard the unexpected news that EVE Online will be going partially free-to-play when the next expansion lands in November. Like many games...
EVE Evolved: The single-shard sandbox economy
The debate about what makes a good sandbox game is as old as the term itself, and everyone seems to have a different view...
Crowfall authorizes RMT program for retired goods
In trying to anticipate the demand for reselling retired Crowfall goods and heading off some of the shadier aspects of third-party RMT transactions, ArtCraft announced...
Superdata: WoW, Lineage, SWTOR, TERA, and Blade & Soul top April P2P online games revenues
Superdata has a new seasonal report out on the state of the digital games market. The research firm's April figures show that World of...
The Daily Grind: Are you interested in making money in your MMOs?
When my friends need to borrow money in Final Fantasy XIV or Final Fantasy XI, they come to me. It's not because I'm higher-level...
EVE Online player uses patch trick to dominate the PLEX market
Among the patch notes for EVE Online's recent Citadel expansion release was a fairly innocuous increase in the fees for listing items on the in-game...
World of Warcraft asks why you use the Black Market Auction House
It turns out that you can bring the Black Market Auction House to your very own Garrison in World of Warcraft if you so...
Brunelleschi is the staging ground for a ‘Mythic Renaissance’ civilization
Set in a "mythic Renaissance" that blends together history and fantasy, Brunelleschi: Age of Architects is an ambitious social builder that aims to give...
