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Perfect Ten: 10 things you can spend money on instead of Diablo Immortal
So how about that Diablo Immortal eh? Sure is a lot of "weeping and gnashing of teeth" surrounding its release, huh? But hey, it's for a...
Diablo Immortal players estimate being fully geared up will cost $110,000 in microtransactions
When Diablo Immortal launched on mobile and PC last week, it did so with some truly rancorous levels of microtransaction nonsense, but perhaps most...
Vague Patch Notes: Mobile MMOs, free-to-play MMOs, and the path of microtransactions
When I first started playing Magic: the Gathering, Revised was the new hotness and I got used to the idea that Serra Angel was...
Diablo Immortal launches on mobile and PC today with hellacious microtransactions
The newest entry in Blizzard's long-running Diablo series was couched in controversy literally from the first minutes that it was announced. Now, with Diablo...
Belgium and Netherlands reject Diablo Immortal over lockbox gambling concerns
This week's "global launch" of Diablo Immortal already wasn't going to be that global considering that several southeast Asia countries will have to wait...
Warcraft Arclight Rumble tweaks closed beta as advance reviews trickle in
Closed beta testing is well underway for Blizzard's latest mobile game, and it sounds as though the studio might be listening to players as...
Apex Legends Mobile releases to mostly positive gameplay reviews and frustration with microtransactions
Last week saw the worldwide launch of Apex Legends Mobile, bringing the high-speed battle royale shooter to Android and iOS devices in what's called...
You can begin patching for Path of Exile’s Sentinel launch… now [Update: It’s live!]
Happy Sentinel day! Grinding Gear Games is rolling out Path of Exile's Sentinel expansion and league today as planned, so we hope you've got...
Jagex 2020 financials outline increases in revenue, subscriptions, and microtransaction sales
Yes, we are reporting on financial news coming out of 2020 from RuneScape and Old School RuneScape developer Jagex because said information was only...
Pirates of the Burning Sea teases ‘legacy’ edition coming soon
Arr, there be some life left in Pirates of the Burning Sea's sails, after all! Shortly before the dev team broke for the holidays,...
Gamers, along with everyone else, are apparently avoiding Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon NFTs
If this blossoming world of cryptocurrency and NFTs is making you long for a simpler and less stupid era of gaming history, you're not...
Peter Molyneux’s multiplayer ‘blockchain business sim’ Legacy sells $53M in land NFTs before release
If you feel strongly about another game making money off of concepts of internet spaceships, then you might have some feelings about what Peter...
War of Dragnorox is a ‘dynamic warfare MMORPG’ where devs deliver the action live in-game
Apparently, being the dungeon master of an MMORPG is a job. Or at least it's a job for the upcoming game War of Dragnorox,...
Mythic Quest, the TV series about an MMO studio, is greenlit for another two seasons
One of the few bright spots of 2020 was the announcement of Apple TV+ show Mythic Quest, the Rob McElhenney-run comedy about a game...
The Daily Grind: When are ‘microtransactions’ too much in MMOs?
Two money-related topics crossed my desk the last couple of weeks. The first was a Reddit topic complaining about microtransactions in MMOs - not the...
Path of Exile asks for community votes on what the game will sell you next
Market research is a tricky thing. It can be hard to figure out what exactly will get people to spend money on a product...
Continent of the Ninth Seal is moving over to Valofe from Webzen for publishing
If you had some deep attachment to Webzen because the company was behind the publishing of Continent of the Ninth Seal, today's news will...
Vague Patch Notes: The lesson hidden in the Astellia shutdown
A couple years ago, an MMO launched named Astellia. It was fine. It wasn't bad. It wasn't good. It was just fine. It was...
Perfect Ten: The top 10 non-traditional MMO fantasy races
Elves. Dwarves. Humans. Halflings. Gnomes. Hobbits. Dark elves. High elves. Half-elves. Wood elves. Keebler elves. Elvish impersonators.
Are you as tired as I am of...
Lost Ark unwraps the Warrior as westerners wrangle with the Korean battlepass
The latest Korean patch notes for Lost Ark have dropped, sending hopeful western players into a tizzy. The Korean patch adds a new public...
