Free Realms’ legacy lives on with a pair of rogue server projects
Exiles from Free Realms -- including many kids who grew up with it as their first MMO -- have had a hard time finding...
RuneScape fans riot over Jagex survey on $33 subs, in-game ads, and account restrictions
Yesterday we reported on a conjoint survey being sent out by Jagex to players of RuneScape and Old School RuneScape with a stated intention...
Guild Wars 2 delays January’s balance update into February
If you remember early November, which I realize feels like 10 years ago, ArenaNet released a roadmap for the rest of the Janthir Wilds...
Enad Global 7 shuts down Toadman and lays off staff at Piranha Games, potentially affecting PlanetSide 2
We have the unfortunate duty to report that the layoffs within the games industry will apparently continue until funny line improves. Enad Global 7,...
PSA: Star Citizen followers raise the alarm over continued conflicting refund policy messages
If you've been following the discussions around Star Citizen, you might have seen the topic of the sandbox's refund policy come up, perhaps even...
World of Warcraft is hiking subscription prices in Australia and New Zealand
Who doesn't like paying more for things? Wait. Sorry. The answer to that is "everyone," and so you can imagine that residents of Australia...
Destiny 2’s Revenant Act III update arrives to disgruntled players and tumbling Steam numbers
This week has brought a new content update to the looter shooter of Destiny 2, but if player sentiment is anything to go by,...
Marvel Rivals breaks down Season 1’s updates and features as Nexus Mods removes weirdo political content
Fans already know that team hero shooter Marvel Rivals is headed for its first full season on January 10th, but now players are getting...
Star Citizen’s chief strategy officer publicly resigns from his post at CIG
This news will either be part of another slate of bad omens for developers working on Star Citizen or is just another shuffling of...
ARK closed out 2024 with more Extinction content, new DLC, and a F2P mobile launch
The dinosaur-themed survival sandbox ARK: Survival Ascended has had plenty of updates sprinkled throughout the year, but the final week of December saw it...
Valve’s maintenance-moded TCG Artifact saw a bizarre surge of thousands of players last week
When a game enters maintenance mode, there's always the brief hope that it will suddenly garner wider interest and see at least a small...
11 year-old MMORPG Royal Quest resurfaces on Steam after a four year-long shutdown
Have you ever heard of Royal Quest? It's OK if you haven't because this one likely flew under the radar even when it was...
Helldivers 2 aspires to update so much that it effectively becomes Helldivers 3
At what point should a live service game stop updating its live service and move into a new title? If you're the guy behind...
Profane details needy artifact weapons, territory control, classes, and monetization in video interview
There hasn't been a great deal of major noise coming out of the developing gankbox Profane, but that changed earlier this month when the...
Ashes of Creation influencer flames out by making accusations Intrepid calls ‘false and defamatory’
Whenever YouTubers, content creators, or influencers decide to drop a game that they'd hitched their entire online brand to, it can often have a...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s January dough
Pokemon Go's Dual Destiny season continues in January, and Niantic's starting the year with some new(ish) pokemon it's teasing. Some are genuinely new, like Fidough,...
Riot Games tries to rebuff report that Arcane TV series was a ‘financial miss’ for League of Legends
It's pretty easy to assume that animated shows are trying to sell toys and games to people; that's been a thing for a very...
WoW Classic players manage to recreate the infamous Corrupted Blood event
One of the most notable community-sparked events of vanilla World of Warcraft in 2005 came back again in 2024.
This would be the Corrupted Blood...
Shroud of the Avatar lead dev joins another new studio, this time as ‘chief velocity officer’
Remember when gamers noticed how Shroud of the Avatar and Catnip Games' Chris Spears was quietly forming a new game studio to put together...
Once Human’s new achievements are powered by cash shop currency – obviously, players aren’t happy
News about what's next for survivalbox Once Human was pouring out of NetEase's Starry Studio last week to the point that a bit of...
