Tencent teases the announcement of a new open-world MMO powered by Unreal Engine 5 next week
With all of the summertime games showcases fluttering around like tree pollen, it's probably easy to kind of lose track of one or two...
Diablo Immortal player outlines how he used 600M gold from World of Warcraft to buff his gems
By now, players of Diablo Immortal are likely familiar with the Redditor Daymeeuhn; he's the guy who first calculated the real money cost to...
The original Secret World suddenly finds itself back on digital store shelves
The Secret World - as in the original, not the Legends remake - is something of a beloved game around these parts, with its...
300K players got hit by Lost Ark’s promised ‘massive’ ban wave
Players of Lost Ark can't say that they weren't warned: Last week, Amazon Games announced that a "massive" ban wave was coming, and sure...
Elite Dangerous griefers stream-sniped Frontier’s own community managers
Back in May 2017, we reported on the killing of Salome, a character in the fiction of Elite: Dangerous whose novel-ending journey through the...
Conan Exiles accidentally leaks a video announcement of its large-scale Age of Sorcery update
The general purpose of having a countdown to a major reveal is that you follow the clock's timer. Conan Exiles was doing just that,...
Battlefield 2042’s Season One finally launches as EA denies claims of a ‘skeleton crew’ working on the game
To call Battlefield 2042 "beleaguered" would be something of an understatement: Readers will recall that the game released to some pretty low player counts...
Diablo Immortal is no longer whaling as hard as we thought, but it’s still pretty bad
Earlier this week, the internet was abuzz over a Reddit thread and subsequent viral videos that pointed out it could cost players over $100,000...
‘Power demands sacrifice’: Conan Exiles is teasing a big reveal
If you've been keeping an eye on the Conan Exiles Twitter account lately, you know that Funcom, which barely even acknowledged Age of Conan's...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida talks about PvP design, deific lore, and characterization
Players are loving the new Duty Support feature in Final Fantasy XIV according to Naoki Yoshida. A recent interview with the producer and director...
Diablo Immortal players estimate being fully geared up will cost $110,000 in microtransactions
When Diablo Immortal launched on mobile and PC last week, it did so with some truly rancorous levels of microtransaction nonsense, but perhaps most...
Farwoods is a minimalistic, animalistic online RPG with no NPCs whatsoever
If you're one of those noble players who champions gameplay above such mundanities like visuals, then we've spotted an upcoming online RPG that might...
EVE Online’s ‘revitalized’ multiple character training monetization sends players into a tailspin
Why go through the "hassle" of having multiple accounts and multiboxing when you can pay more for the convenience of training multiple characters? That...
Elyon will make its way to the SEA region with Playpark as its steward
Do you live in the Southeast Asia region of the globe and have a hankering to play Elyon? You'd probably find yourself in rare...
Belgium and Netherlands reject Diablo Immortal over lockbox gambling concerns
This week's "global launch" of Diablo Immortal already wasn't going to be that global considering that several southeast Asia countries will have to wait...
The Daily Grind: How much does an MMO’s population influence your perception of its success?
A few weeks back, there was a flurry of panic on Reddit over the realization that Final Fantasy XIV's Steam counts had fallen 70%...
Players of Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds decry a crypto-powered cash shop filled with pay-to-win PvP items
Players of the recently released mobile RPG Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds have some thoughts on the game's monetization, particularly its engrained pay-to-earn crypto...
Apex Legends Mobile releases to mostly positive gameplay reviews and frustration with microtransactions
Last week saw the worldwide launch of Apex Legends Mobile, bringing the high-speed battle royale shooter to Android and iOS devices in what's called...
Improbable CEO shows off M² tech test, claims the platform has ‘peak capacity’ of 1B users
Improbable CEO Herman Narula is once again making some pretty big claims on Twitter. A video demonstration shared last week (and posted on YouTube...
V Rising’s early access has already sold over 500K copies in three days
Apparently, survival sandbox mechanics paired with classical vampire aesthetics is a winning combination, or at the least a profitable one for developer Stunlock Studios,...
