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Apex Legends just secured its 50 millionth player
Respawn and EA announced this morning a big milestone for surprise battle royale hit Apex Legends: It's just racked up its 50 millionth player.
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MMO Business Roundup: Fortnite’s lockbox lawsuit, Riot’s diversity boss, Take-Two’s stock, Acti-Blizz’s investor warning
Business business business! What's on the weekend agenda? Oh heck, let's just throw Fortnite, lockboxes, and a lawsuit in one sentence. It's like catnip.
Fortnite's...
EverQuest II’s GU109 Mischief and Mayhem launches March 16 in time for EverQuest’s 20th birthday
GU109 is coming to EverQuest II! Dubbed Mischief and Mayhem, the update is promising everything from dungeon content to crafting. The dungeon is really...
SuperData January 2019: Digital gaming revenue is down across the board as Fortnite has ‘increasingly lumpy revenue profile’
Hey so can we just get a do-over on January and maybe February? No? Sigh. SuperData's released its January 2019 report, and surprising no...
The MOP Up: TERA and PUBG combine unholy forces
TERA sent out a press release this week confirming the end of the world: "Finally, the dream collaboration between TERA and PUBG is real!...
The MOP Up: Warframe brings Fortuna to Nintendo Switch
Are you jamming with Warframe on the Switch? If so, then this past week you had an extra reason to jam hard, as Digital...
MMO Business Roundup: The Fair Play Alliance, Warface splits from Crytek, ESA expansions, and WoW esports
We're back with another quick roundup of MMO industry news!
Remember the Fair Play Alliance? It was supposed to be a group of major and...
Riot Games says it’s really, truly not working on a League of Legends MMO
Remember last summer when Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill teased Twitter by asking whether the company should make an MMO? Then, just as people...
Battle Bards Episode 137: League of Legends’ hero themes
What’s your hero’s theme? If you play League of Legends, you know the answer to that already, because every hero in that game has...
The Daily Grind: Would you play Overwatch if it had a PvE or co-op mode?
Overwatch had a strange 2018. While Blizzard expanded the game's developer team last year, it also put out less content (and more repeat content)...
Riot tackles toxic corporate culture with updated company values
In the wake of the gender-discrimination and sexual-harassment scandal that has plagued Riot Games for the past year -- which last month resulted in...
For Science: The psychology of online gaming toxicity, fanpersonism, and gamer identity
Over the holidays, I bumped into some great video material from author and YouTuber Caleb Ross that seems useful for online gamers in particular....
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...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO surprises of 2018
Everyone loves surprises, right? Not always. Even good surprises can be a disruption of our comfortable routines, and bad ones can downright ruin a...
There are no Blizzard games in the November 2018 SuperData games revenue ranking, not even WoW
I did a little double-take when I read SuperData's November 2018 games industry revenue ranking piece today, and not because the title and intro...
Massively OP’s 2018 Awards: Biggest MMO Industry Disappointment of 2018
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2018 awards continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Industry Disappointment, which was awarded to the sad death of Marvel Heroes last...
Riot suspends COO for gross sexual jokes involving farting and touching subordinates’ genitalia
More bad news coming out of Riot Games this week. Kotaku reports that Riot employees have been told COO Scott Gelb is being punished...
MMO Business Roundup: Chinese vs Western gamers, devs against Brexit, and lockboxes as gambling in Australia
Welcome back to another quick trip through some of this week's gaming business tidbits.
Profiling Chinese gamers
Quantic Foundry, the Nick Yee research firm that studies...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online engages Battle at the Binary Stars
Continuing with its push deeper into the Age of Discovery arc, Star Trek Online has warped in the Battle at the Binary Stars task...
SuperData: Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of Duty dominate October as Blizzard titles slip
Surprising absolutely no one, Red Dead Redemption 2 killed it (and the horse it rode in on) in October. According to SuperData's digital games...
