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Blizzard and Netease will be cranking out games together at least until 2023
Chinese gaming giant Netease has popped up in the news over and over this past year. It poured money into SpatialOS and is building...
Epic and Improbable pledge $25M to rescue MMO studios affected by Unity’s SpatialOS license suspension
We've continued updating this post at the end as more events unfold, including Unity's rebuttal and Unreal's intervention. The original post from 9:55 a.m....
Rangers of Oblivion brings monster-hunting action to mobile devices
The kill-and-craft subgenre of action-RPG pioneered by Capcom's Monster Hunter series has achieved great popularity as of late, thanks in large part to Monster...
A look back at the MMO industry’s law dramas of 2018
Last year, we started a new end-of-the-year tradition: a recap of all the legal and political dramas that have affected the MMO genre over...
The Hearthstone leads Blizz lost last year just scooped up the Marvel IP with their new studio
Blizzard had a rough year losing key figures at the company last year - heck, this week it lost its CFO to Square Inc....
China is approving games again, but none of them is from Tencent or Netease
After nearly a year of being frozen, China's approval process for games lurched into life once more in December, with 80 titles approved in...
EVE Online’s Onslaught expansion is live with new content for PvE and PvP alike
EVE Online's Onslaught expansion is officially live this morning, with "a little bit of something for everyone" as MOP's own Brendan Drain put it....
Analysts say Diablo Immortal will bring financial success despite fan outrage
Arguably the biggest thing to come out of BlizzCon 2018 was the sheer amount of unadulterated rage solicited by the announcement of Blizzard's upcoming...
Netease talks up Diablo Immortal to Chinese fans and onlookers
While American fans at this weekend's BlizzCon went into full-on meltdown mode, NetEase was also telling Chinese fans about the upcoming Diablo Immortal. It...
BlizzCon 2018: Blizzard defends Diablo Immortal, hints at more Diablo projects on the way
"I'd like to thank April Fools Guy for setting off what's sure to be two solid weeks of hand-wringing over the time/place etiquette of...
BlizzCon 2018: Diablo fans go into full-fledged meltdown mode over Immortal
It's hard to imagine a more perfect storm of nerdrage than the one that Blizzard concocted at BlizzCon this Friday. Sorely neglected Diablo fans...
BlizzCon 2018: Diablo Immortal is a ‘mobile massively multiplayer online action–role-playing game’
Hey, Diablo III. Happy Switch launch day. Happy Diablo Immortal day! (So much for that animated series rumor?) As announced during the BlizzCon opening ceremony,...
EVE Vegas 2018: EVE Echoes, EVE Online’s mobile adaptation, is launching in 2019
When CCP Games started shifting some of its focus to the mobile games market recently, we heard rumblings of a mobile version of EVE...
EVE Vegas 2018 is this weekend: Here’s what to expect from the show
It's that time of year again when internet spaceship nerds descend on Las Vegas to get incredibly drunk find out what the future holds...
EVE Online will be using its test server for the Chinese version as well
We're sorry to inform you that EVE Online's Chinese version has gone offline... for the length of time it will take to migrate the...
Revelation Online previews the renovation of New Sulan
The latest Q&A post from Revelation Online is all about the upcoming New Sulan update, which will see one of the game's major cities,...
NetEase’s blockbuster battle royale game Knives Out is porting to PlayStation 4
Knives Out, which deserves an award based on the fact that it has the best battle royale game name ever, is coming to the...
EVE Evolved: What could the sale of CCP Games mean for EVE Online?
Just a few days ago, we awoke to news so unexpected that it made me check I hadn't time-traveled to April 1st: EVE Online...
Revelation Online details dungeon difficulty revamp in upcoming New Sulan update
Revelation Online's upcoming New Sulan update is bringing some big changes to the game's dungeon system, which will have its difficulty modes streamlined. With...
Nostos is Netease’s ‘open-world multiplayer VR game’ – and it’s built with SpatialOS
Nostos is one of the more interesting things to come out of Gamescom this year. As Upload VR writes, the Netease title is basically...