mmo news roundup
MMO Week in Review: Blizzard loses 18M players, Mad World fumbles its launch
Blizzard dominated the MMO headlines this week, though not really for good reasons, as UK regulators blocked Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard buyout and the company rushed...
MMO Week in Review: LOTRO’s character customization expansion
Lord of the Rings Online characters will soon be able to adopt a whole new look as Standing Stone Games announced this week that...
MMO Week in Review: New World evades Amazon Games’ layoffs
Amazon Games was the latest victim of the broader Amazon corporation's latest round of mass layoffs this week, specifically the San Diego branch whose...
MMO Week in Review: Super Adventure Box Season
April Fools' Day is more like April Fools' Week in MMOs, and nowhere is it more elaborate than in Guild Wars 2, which reopened...
MMO Week in Review: Carn Dûm, Diablo IV, and CCP’s blockchain gamble
With Blizzard's Diablo IV open beta wrapping up tomorrow, the multiplayer world is certainly wrapped up in excitement and/or queues; our own previewers found...
MMO Week in Review: Diablo IV will see you in hell
Diablo IV rolled into its paid beta this weekend, stuttering with queue and performance issues that Blizzard rushed to amend. We'll have two impressions...
MMO Week in Review: Finding Wayfinder, farewelling Ghostcrawler
While its NDA remains in place, multiplayer co-op title Wayfinder did let media and players take a peek behind the curtain this week, and...
MMO Week in Review: Returning to Cantha
The first episode of Guild Wars 2's post-End-of-Dragons not-a-living-story season rolled out this week, sending players back to Cantha with the crew to solve...
MMO Week in Review: Throne & Liberty, New World’s seasons, and a pile of MMO birthdays
Amazon made two huge announcements that stole the MMO show this week: First, it's publishing NCsoft's Throne & Liberty in the west, and second,...
MMO Week in Review: Up-tempo Guild Wars 2
ArenaNet surprised fans this week with the announcement that it's essentially retiring the concept of Guild Wars 2's living world seasons going forward, switching...
MMO Week in Review: Blizzard’s bewildering business briefing
Blizzard dominated headlines this week as Blizzard counted its best quarter for monthly active players across all of its online games since it started...
MMO Week in Review: FFXIV’s cheaters, NCsoft’s layoffs
Cheaters did their best to spoil this week in MMOs as Final Fantasy XIV was ensnared by a scandal over players using forbidden plugins...
MMO Week in Review: Necrom, Refractions, and Blizzard’s latest blunder
Elder Scrolls Online kicked off the end of January with its reveal of Shadow Over Morrowind, the Necrom chapter, and the Scribes of Fate...
MMO Week in Review: The NetEase-Blizzard fireworks show
World of Warcraft players got an extra dose of fireworks for Lunar New Year this week as NetEase clapped back at Blizzard, which apparently...
MMO Week in Review: FFXIV 6.3, Smed, and the end of The Repopulation
Final Fantasy XIV's Gods Revel, Lands Tremble released this week, introducing a new dungeon, trials, storyline, and island sanctuary expansions in the first big...
MMO Week in Review: New year’s worries for WoW, ESO, and Lost Ark
The first week of the year may be quiet for MMOs, but we're not: This week, we bottled hype for Final Fantasy XIV's impending...
MMO Week in Review: Hello to the MMOs of 2023
The last week of the year is never huge on news, but we still had some bright spots - chief among them being the...
MMO Week in Review: Gamigo, WoW’s roadmap, and XIV 6.3
The week before Christmas is often a dumping ground for news studios need to offload before they go on break, and this week was...
MMO Week in Review: Metzen, WoW’s trading post, and the new ESO strategy
World of Warcraft continued making waves all week: Blizzard announced a new trading post feature that doesn't sound half bad, Chris Metzen returned as a...
MMO Week in Review: Blue Protocol, Blizzard, and the Black Desert ball
Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards played host to a number of big announcements for MMO fans this week, including the news that Amazon is...
