mmo news roundup
MMO Week in Review: World of Warships’ blunder, Elyon’s beta
Has World of Warships ever made it into the MMO Week in Review before? We don't think so, not even that time when Steven...
MMO Week in Review: Astellia Online gives up, Guild Wars 2 gets classy
Classy as in elite specs, that is. Yes, Guild Wars 2 fully revealed its first three End of Dragons elite specs this week, making...
MMO Week in Review: New World’s delay, Bless Unleashed’s launch, Blizzard’s dumpster fire
Doesn't it feel as if J. Allen Brack stepping down as head of Blizzard was a long time ago? But it was only Tuesday,...
MMO Week in Review: End of Dragons and the Blizzard walkout
Activision-Blizzard's sexism scandal continued ramping up this week, as Bobby Kotick issued a letter reassuring stockholders while staffers condemned the corporate response, staging a...
MMO Week in Review: RIP to the Blizzard you thought you knew
It probably shouldn't surprise anyone that a video game company long-maligned and even boycotted over everything from political censorship and mass-layoffs to labor abuses...
MMO Week in Review: Elyria, Camelot, and Crowfall shenanigans
'Twas the battle of the crowdfunded MMOs this week, and not really the good kind, as it all comes down to transparency one way...
MMO Week in Review: The week when we got two new launched MMORPGs
I joked on Twitter that it's not every week when we get to graduate a Kickstarter MMORPG to launch, but it's also not every...
MMO Week in Review: Delay of Dragons
Any other week, the news that Magic Legends is closing down and laying off the team before it launches, SWTOR is getting a Christmas...
MMO Week in Review: Aion Classic is a harsh reminder about monetization and modern nostalgia servers
Aion Classic raised all the eyebrows this week when it launched with a subscription with what is arguably an economic pay-to-win feature baked right...
MMO Week in Review: WoW’s Chains of Domination and Black Desert’s Corsair
Topping off the MMORPG headlines this week was the news that World of Warcraft has finally picked a date for patch 9.1, Chains of...
MMO Week in Review: MMOs are back
I don't know about you folks, but I feel as if I'm barely treading water when it comes to keeping up with all the...
MMO Week in Review: Burning Crusade, Blackwood, Prisms, and Crowfall
One of my favorite "problems" is when we have a week so packed with big MMORPG news that I can't decide what to feature...
MMO Week in Review: Daybreak, BlizzCon, and Ashes of Creation
It was a strange sort of businessy sort of week in MMO land, as Daybreak's games got a ticket to 4Game, Blizzard canceled BlizzCon...
MMO Week in Review: Burning Crusade, Odyssey, SOLO, Bless, and New Genesis
It's been a positively massive week for the MMO genre, with launches and betas left and right: WoW Classic rolled out the Burning Crusade...
MMO Week in Review: Blizzard’s depletion and a trip to Bespin
Activision-Blizzard stole the week of news when our little ol' post about how Blizzard itself has now dropped almost 29% of its active playerbase...
MMO Week in Review: Casting judgment on Guild Wars 2’s Judgment
Guild Wars 2 stole the spotlight this week, and whether you thought it was a good thing or a bad thing probably depends on...
MMO Week in Review: Like butter that has been scraped over too much bread
The good news is that Lord of the Rings Online got its Bilbo adventures update out this week, not all that long after its...
MMO Week in Review: So LOTRO is breathing easier right about now
It's pretty rare that a story that broke over the weekend is the most interesting thing to have happened all week unless it's a...
MMO Week in Review: The Dual Universe disturbance
I can count on one hand the number of prominent MMORPG studios that aren't forthcoming with customers about who is actually in charge, and...
MMO Week in Review: Little hope left for Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer
Cyberpunk 2077 all but killed off any remaining hope that a multiplayer version is still on deck, thanks to a corporate vision that will...
