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EG7’s 2023 annual report claims Daybreak and SSG collectively count 264 staffers
Swedish gaming conglom EG7 released its annual report this week, and while there isn't a ton of new-new in it for those of us...
Star Wars The Old Republic’s GU 7.5, Desperate Defiance, includes a farming system and solo Ventures
We don't have a hard launch date, but Star Wars The Old Republic's Update 7.5 has a name and a face, as revealed by...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 464: Guild Wars 3 is a go
Justin and Bree discuss NCsoft, Guild Wars 3, DCUO, Monsters and Memories, Hellgate, and the LOTRO downtime, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, SWTOR, and Valheim, plus a mailbag topic on Palia.
New Hellgate game for PC and console, codenamed Hellgate Redemption, is in the works
Hellgate: London is mostly known nowadays as the IP that just won't die despite resurrections continuing to prove to be increasingly shambolic - a...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that experienced a surprising comeback
It's hard to pass up a really good comeback story. We love it when a beloved something or someone is counted down and out......
Perfect Ten: MMOs with live-action media tie-ins
Every so often I think to myself that a video game should get some kind of media adaptation before I come to my senses....
SWTOR teases GU 7.4.1 Building a Foundation’s Copero Stronghold and Date Night romance content
The BioWare-turned-Broadsword team behind Star Wars The Old Republic is once again heading to Twitch to outline the game's immediate future, which includes GU...
EG7 Q4 2023: DCUO’s delayed latest-gen console launch hurt Daybreak’s revenues last quarter
While bigger games companies continue to flail, EG7 actually managed to grow last year, as its latest investor report demonstrates, with overall revenues up...
Two weeks into early access, Kickstarted survivalbox Fractured Veil patches up and merges servers
While server merges are sometimes necessary and healthy, they're not the best optics when they happen mere weeks after a game's early access release....
Heckbugs in Love return to voxelbox Trove for Valentine’s Day starting next week
It warms my heart to think that a lil tiny piece of Defiance lives on in Trove thanks to the game's bizarre Valentine's Day...
The Daily Grind: Do you even want an MMO with transmedia synergy?
We've been talking about transmedia synergy again thanks to Dune Awakening, so I want to go at it from a new angle. The term...
Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2024?
Every year when it comes time to update this poll for January, I consider tossing it out. But the last few years of Daybreak...
Perfect Ten: The weirdest weapons from MMOs of yore
Swords. Staffs. Maces. Spears. Wands. Bows. Crossbows. Double-crossbows. Hammers. Wolverine claws. Daggers. Axes. Deadly? Yes. Fashionable? Not so much. A two-handed sword is so...
APB Reloaded is sunsetting its console versions – in fact, the Xbox server is already permanently offline
We've got some bad news for the APB community: Last night, Little Orbit announced that it's sunsetting APB Reloaded's console versions.
"The decision to discontinue...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v7.0
Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...
Z1 Battle Royale, formerly H1Z1, kicks back to a semi-charmed kind of life
Some failed online games die virtually overnight, while others linger on as shuffling zombies that refuse to quit moving. H1Z1 certainly isn't the former,...
Fallen Earth’s Unity remake has been ‘in full development’ for six months now
It's been a very long and quiet stretch of time since we heard Little Orbit talk anything about Fallen Earth. But the studio suddenly...
Post-apoc shooter Once Human aims for 20,000 players with this month’s closed beta
Not every magical door opens into Narnia; in fact, some portals should never be breached. Such is the premise of Once Human, a post-apocalyptic...
Albion Online’s latest Wild Blood patch casts a wide combat balance net
Albion Online is barreling forward with fresh updates to its Wild Blood update this week as patch 2 has arrived, though it's not the...
Perfect Ten: Classic video games that would make terrible MMORPGs
There was a time when MMORPGs were all based on existing storied single-player RPG franchises, and that time was when Ultima Online launched and...