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MMO Business Roundup: Valorant esports, South Korean politics, Netmarble, Nexon, and EVE Echoes
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Valorant: It's been an ugly week in esports, as Riot Games suspended esports...
The MOP Up: Skyforge takes Switch players to the moon
Earlier this year, Nintendo Switch users were treated to a full-fledged MMORPG with the launch of Skyforge on the platform. Now, Skyforge is taking...
Netease’s SpatialOS-built multiplayer VR RPG Nostos is being shuttered after less than two years
Back in August 2018, we cast our eyes in the direction of Nostos, an "open-world VR RPG with online elements" that let four players...
MMO Business Roundup: Theorycraft, My.Games, the FIFA fixing lawsuit, and Roblox’s latest concert
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
Theorycraft: Could you found a new games studio on $37.5M? Yeah, probably. A bunch...
MMO Business Roundup: Improbable’s defense contracting, Amazon Games’ internal support
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Improbable: Back in January, CNBC did a big story on Improbable, the massive Herman...
Astracraft is a game of building your own vehicles and then blowing other people’s creations up
Do you like building elaborate vehicles with creative tools complete with little guns and missile launches and the like? Do you further like imagining...
Diablo Immortal kicks off technical alpha, confirms that it’s free-to-play
Queries about telephonic ownership aside, Diablo Immortal still has the attention of many who would dearly like to see an official Diablo on a...
The MOP Up: Runes of Magic gets a headstart on Thanksgiving
It's still early in November, but Runes of Magic has already laid out a tasty spread for its Autumn Banquet in the game. Eat...
EVE Echoes plans Crimson Harvest events and module improvements next week
Halloween this year is invading space once again - yes, even in the still-got-that-new-car-smell EVE Echoes. In the mobile version of EVE, CCP Games...
EVE Echoes approaches 20K reviews, drops patch, and adds notifications to your watch
So how is EVE Echoes doing out in the wild? It's hard to know hard numbers from CCP and Netease, but since its launch...
CCP and Netease’s mobile MMORPG EVE Echoes is officially live on Android and iOS
We hope you got your preloading done overnight because EVE Online mobile MMO EVE Echoes is officially live, offered up by CCP Games and Netease...
EVE Echoes launches early tomorrow morning – here’s how to install it now
CCP Games and Netease are about to embark on a joint venture that will hopefully do what no other EVE Online spin-off has done...
Diablo Immortal offers a slightly gussied-up ‘new’ trailer
Shh, don't worry. We won't spoil your deepest, darkest secret -- you know, the one about how you're actually still kind of interested in...
EVE Echoes takes a peek at the inside of the Xian-Yue destroyer as beta testing wraps up
It never occurred to me that the internet spaceships of EVE Echoes have interiors manned by a crew of people; I always just envisioned...
The MOP Up: Niantic halts plan to discontinue Pokemon Go on old mobile devices
This month, Pokemon Go announced that it was discontinuing support for 32-bit Android mobile devices, mostly devices released prior to 2015, including the 1st-gen...
The MOP Up: Second Life’s super expensive brothel
It's not every week that my editor marches up to me and demands that I cover virtual brothels as headlining stories, but this did...
NetEase financials Q1 2020: A revenue boost ahead of EVE Echoes and Diablo Immortal
NetEase joins NCsoft in having a big first quarter financial report for investors, and it didn't have to bluster about merely surpassing low expectations...
EVE Echoes confirms August 2020 launch window, debuts new gameplay trailer
Well, it wasn't exactly a launch date as originally believed, but we at least now have a launch window for EVE Echoes. The livestream...
Chinese World of Warcraft players beg NetEase to rescue them from RMT bot infestation
How is World of Warcraft doing in China? If one player's collected account is anything to go by, not well at all. A Chinese...
MMO Cartographer: Exploring Revelation Online’s Skyward World update
Revelation Online, originally developed by NetEase and published in the west by My.games, recently launched its Skyward World update. It contained updates for players...
