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Funcom is fined by Norwegian authorities

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In January of last year, Funcom was subject to a raid by Økokrim, the Norwegian agency responsible for investigating and prosecuting financial crimes. The...

EVE Evolved: Does skillpoint trading make EVE pay-to-win?

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EVE Online's realtime skill training system has been a major point of contention throughout the game's lifetime, being a boon for those with little...
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Make My MMO: Divergence ‘goes for broke’ (October 17, 2015)

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It was another good week for Star Wars Galaxies offshoot Divergence Online, which cracked the top 10 on Steam's Greenlight list and settled into...

Nexon and NCsoft part ways

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After a turbulent partnership, MMO companies Nexon and NCsoft have finally parted ways. Nexon sold its 15.08% of shares back to NCsoft today, ending the two...
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Make My MMO: Divergence Online takes Steam by storm (October 10, 2015)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Divergence Online landed on Steam Greenlight, bolstering its ongoing Indiegogo campaign by rocketing to #15 on the platform's Greenlight...
Car I'm driving? I bought it.

Ubisoft buys The Crew’s developer

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Are you at all worried about Ubisoft's future support of The Crew, beyond the expansion scheduled for a mid-November release? Is that concern at...
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Make My MMO: Pantheon’s seed financing (October 3, 2015)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, fans of Brad McQuaid's Pantheon fantasy MMO got some good news. It seems as if Visionary Realms has...
My name is might have been.

Records indicate that Rhode Island’s deal with 38 Studios was meant to be secret

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The 38 Studios story has been a mess since it was first announced, right up to the studio's collapse. It turns out that the...
Do it anyway, but feel bad about it.

Hi-Rez Studios felt bad about abandoning Tribes: Ascend

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Letting Tribes: Ascend lie untouched for a long while was a smart business decision for Hi-Rez Studios, but it wasn't one that the developers...
Work it over.

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen gets investors, development is continuing

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen missed out on its Kickstarter goals, but that wasn't the end of the road. Visionary Realms, after an extended...
Sure you are, home slice.

Star Citizen studio ‘grows’ dev team, claims layoffs are ‘streamlin[ing]’

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It's never exactly calming to hear that a large project is laying people off before release, and that's the rumor swirling around Cloud Imperium...
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Make My MMO: September 26, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Divergence Online continued to raise eyebrows. First, head honcho Ethan "Lord of Edge" Casner spoke with MOP regarding...
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Make My MMO: September 19, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, MUD canceled its Kickstarter, ostensibly so that its developers could pursue other job opportunities that will help fund...

Make My MMO: September 12, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we caught up with Camelot Unchained, Crowfall, and Elite: Dangerous, each of which released a dev blog or...
For the record, again, this costs a lot of money on a monthly basis.

Ron Gilbert explains how video game budgets work

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If you've never designed a game for money, you probably do not have a very clear picture of what video game budgets look like....
It's not in imminent danger!

Elite: Dangerous has sold 825,000 copies

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The good news for Elite: Dangerous fans is that the latest financial report for Frontier Developments is available, and the game appears to have...

Make My MMO: September 5, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, not a whole lot happened! In the land of pseudo-MMOs, though, Kickstarter darling and PvE-focused survival sandbox Eco...
Put these in a room.

Marvel Heroes studio Gazillion hit with layoffs [Confirmed]

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It's sad news for fans of Marvel Heroes and Super Hero Squad Online as at least one of the teams behind Gazillion's successful titles appears to...

Make My MMO: August 29, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Project Gorgon graduated from our "current campaigns" list to our "fully funded" list thanks to its successful $74,000...
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Make My MMO: August 22, 2015

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One of these weeks we'll stop writing about Project Gorgon in this space, but not today! And why should we, since the indie darling...

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