Stars Reach is dropping ‘a sense of pride and accomplishment’ trophies in tester inventories
Stars Reach isn't just teasing players who want to test it but haven't been invited yet; it's also trolling the people in its test.
"We...
Brighter Shores’ closed beta begins behind an NDA as player trading is delayed
Brighter Shores, the new MMORPG from Jagex co-founder Andrew Gower, officially enters closed beta this week - but you won't be hearing much about...
NCsoft Korea confirms restructure and layoffs, renames Throne & Liberty team to Studio X
Last night, we covered the disturbing industry news that NCsoft was planning a major restructure of its Korean branch owing to the long-obvious fact...
NCsoft Korea is reportedly restructuring after multiple weak revenue quarters
Korean media is reporting bad news for NCsoft, or at least fans of the company's developers and games.
Seoul-based Yonhap News has a long piece...
Helldivers 2 completes sweeping buffs and commits to more comms as jump-jetting Automatons menace players
Last month brought some big changes to the co-op shooter Helldivers 2, as Arrowhead Studios deployed a huge buff-granting update that brought the "power"...
Ashes of Creation players spill the beans about pre-alpha testing as verbal and written NDAs lift
If you've got Ashes of Creation targeted in your gaming news and social feeds, then you probably woke up to a deluge of information...
Sea of Thieves Season 14 releases with an ‘incredibly disappointing’ number of bugs
Sea of Thieves players were likely looking forward to getting sneaky and tricksy with the launch of Season 14: Making Mischief and its suite...
PlanetSide 2 fans seek to draw in new players to the shooter with the Bring Your Friends PlanetSide event
We would say that it has been pretty tough to be a fan of PlanetSide 2 following the IP being sold off by Daybreak...
So apparently the PlanetSide IP’s new owner is a private equity firm named Astrapto Capital
Let me provide some context for this post: At the top of 2024, Enad Global 7, which owns Daybreak and whose top execs came...
Three-year-old New World is labeling new non-Aeternum PC player reviews as ‘pre-release’
Amazon's MMORPG New World launched back in 2021 with almost a million concurrent players on PC through Steam. I was there. You were there....
Amazon says it’s cracking down hard on Throne & Liberty bots
If you dip into any online discussion about Throne and Liberty, especially in regard to its population, it invariably shifts toward discussing the purported...
EverCraft Online dresses up for Halloween for its next weekend alpha October 18
For the past little while we've kept an eye on EverCraft Online, a boxy voxel-based MMORPG that seeks to bring the genre back to...
Star Trek Online ends grandfathered subscriptions – in exchange for free lifetime memberships
As if the news of Cryptic's mass layoffs and de facto demise this week wasn't news enough, now Star Trek Online's new caretakers appear...
Elder Scrolls Online teases backstories for its upcoming pair of companions, Zerith-var and Tanlorin
When update 44 arrives in The Elder Scrolls Online later this month, its most exciting feature is surely its two new companions, Tanlorin and...
Embracer-owned Cryptic Studios will suffer devastating layoffs at the end of October
We've been keeping a very worried eye on Cryptic Studios for the last year or so, ever since it became clear that the floundering...
Ubisoft ponders a buyout by Tencent and Guillemot family’s company after second quarter stumbles
It's become clear now that the Star Wars and Assassin's Creed IPs are not as ironclad as they once were for Ubisoft: Following a...
Nightingale devs host a Realms Rebuilt postmortem and outline future update plans
Now that Nightingale's Realms Rebuilt update has been out in the wild for a few weeks, Inflexion Games is taking a moment to process...
The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest personal challenge you’ve set for yourself in an MMO?
A few weeks back, I saw a post on Reddit about an MMO player who had decided to set himself a bizarre project: to...
Destiny 2 offers information about features for October 8 Revenant episode and Frontiers’ armor revamp
Yesterday was a pretty meaty day for fans of Destiny 2 as Bungie took to Twitch and YouTube in order to share update details...
Eterspire introduces player trading and new quests in latest update
Player trading always seems like another one of those expected features in MMORPGs that you don't miss until it's gone. Luckily the most recent...
