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Revelation Online offers a special login event for its second anniversary
Players who are truly dedicated to getting rewards in Revelation Online will soon have a fancy title to allude to that fact. The game's anniversary...
China puts a freeze on new game approval (again)
You might recall that 2018 proved to be a mess for studios trying to get their new games approved for the always-lucrative Chinese market....
Activision-Blizzard Q4 2018: Activision-Blizzard posted record profits, layoffs begin anyway
Activision-Blizzard's financial reports have been rather dull affairs for MMO gamers over the last few years, ever since the company stopped reporting World of...
The MOP Up: FFXIV tickles the ivories
One of the best (of many) features in Final Fantasy XIV is its amazing soundtrack. And just when you think you've heard it all,...
NetEase joins Tencent in move for ‘anti-addiction’ curfews on Chinese mobile gamers
NetEase has once again become a household name for gamers thanks to its partnership with Blizzard on Diablo Immortal and many other titles, but...
China’s third round of game approvals still omits Tencent and NetEase
There are a lot of game companies in China, but Tencent and NetEase are the two titans with huge stables of titles, numerous online...
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...
