mmo roundup
MMO Week in Review: This is (MMO) Halloween
It's Halloween-eve-eve in the real world, which means it's Halloween in just about every MMORPG - for a few more days, anyhow.
Meanwhile, Guild Wars...
MMO Week in Review: FFXIV’s Viper, Star Citizen’s Pyro
The MMO genre saw dueling conventions this weekend: Final Fantasy XIV's London Fanfest revealed the new Viper job and Dawntrail regions and content, while...
MMO Week in Review: 77 days to go
Whether or not it was a great idea to let a company long embroiled in antitrust lawsuits to buy one of the largest corporations...
MMO Week in Review: Daybreak week
It was a massive week for Daybreak MMOs, which often don't get much glory individually, but all five of them got something tangible this...
MMO Week in Review: Third quarter layoff week
If there's one constant for September in the games industry, it's the layoffs as companies juice their numbers at the end of the third...
MMO Week in Review: Franchise revivals for EverQuest and EVE Online
It's been a big week for gaming thanks to Unity's self-owns and the UK's preliminary approval of the Activision-Blizzard buyout - and a big...
MMO Week in Review: More questions than answers for Unity and Gearbox
This week in MMOs was unfortunately dominated by the business end of gaming for two key reasons. First, Embracer, which is currently in the...
MMO Week in Review: Fury Inconspicuous
World of Warcraft launched its Fury Incarnate patch this week, so you might think the MMO world would be fixated on that, but Blizzard...
MMO Week in Review: Rise of the Angry Earth vs. River Hobbits
This edition of the MMO Week in Review is dedicated to that guy who got really mad at us a coupla years back when...
MMO Week in Review: SOTO and Soulframe
The week of Gamescom has been a wild one for the MMORPG genre: Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the Obscure opened its gates, World...
MMO Week in Review: Wayfinder through a viewfinder
Wayfinder found a way to launch into early access this week, though it's been a bit chaotic as servers struggled to keep up with...
MMO Week in Review: Throne & Liberty’s delay, Palia’s open beta
Throne & Liberty and Palia displayed both ends of the "delay" spectrum this week. NCsoft told investors it is delaying the western release of...
MMO Week in Review: Palia’s beta, Baldur’s Gate 3’s big launch
Multiplayer games rather than MMORPGs are capturing the gaming industry's heart this week as Baldur's Gate 3 exploded and Palia puttered into beta.
Meanwhile, WoW...
MMO Week in Review: Dawntrail and Path of Exile 2
It's been a hell of a weekend for Final Fantasy XIV and Path of Exile fans thanks to Fanfest and ExileCon. CBU3 took the...
MMO Week in Review: Blizzard’s bountiful bungles
Blizzard had a rough week, lurching from messy story to story, all tucked neatly under the arc of the FTC appearing to finally give...
MMO Week in Review: $69 billion
The Microsoft buyout of Activision-Blizzard is likely to be inked early this week, thanks to a judge's decision not to block the duo from...
MMO Week in Review: Blood of the Sands
New World's second season, Blood of the Sands, officially kicked off this week - just as datamining of non-English tooltips appears to have outed...
MMO Week in Review: Private classified mysteries of the undisclosed esoteric enigma
Secrets of the Obscure is Guild Wars 2's next big expansion, ArenaNet announced this week, and it's dropping August 22nd - with a low...
MMO Week in Review: The foggy future of SWTOR
While Star Wars The Old Republic's move to Broadsword is a sure thing now, the future of the game still has players worried -...
MMO Week in Review: Reddit chaos, Viridian, and instant karma for M2M
If I were a conspiracy theory sort of human, I would certainly be watching the Reddit meltdown with great interest, as the CEO of...
