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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...
Magic Legends turns off microtransaction costs ahead of its October sunset
If you were hopping that the announcement of Magic Legends shutting down this October was some sort of sick joke, we're sorry to inform...
Champions Online gets patriotic while Star Trek Online gets a sale for the 4th of July
The benefit of a game like Champions Online taking place in a setting roughly analogous to the real worlds is that unlike in Neverwinter,...
Vague Patch Notes: Money makes the MMO world go round
I had some thoughts after the most recent bit of news we got from Star Trek Online about how, you know... the game costs...
New World ‘won’t consider selling anything other than cosmetic items until 2022 at the earliest’
Amazon's New World was the subject of much debate this month when a leaker exposed the state of the game's cash shop in the...
So Mythic Quest is a TV show about a fictional MMO studio – how well does it represent actual MMO issues?
As an avid MMO gamer and big fan of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, I was extremely excited to watch Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet...
Epic v Apple: Fortnite at ‘full penetration’ on console, more industry profit details, and text descriptions of trailers
It's the stupid gift that keeps on stupid giving. It's the lawsuit that might have industry-wide shockwaves. It's a trial that has seen whether...
New World confirms cash shop items will be cosmetic-only at launch after alpha test storefront worries arise
New World very nearly doused its own flame before even leaving alpha. With the game's last major alpha update, the devs elected to test...
