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Interview: The Wayfinder team on group size, customization, monetization, and more
Perhaps you're interested in Wayfinder because you like the idea of a small-group dungeon-running game published by Digital Extremes. (The studio made another game...
League of Legends and Valorant both unveil new roster additions
One is a MOBA, one is a team-based shooter, but both are under the Riot Games umbrella and so they're being bundled up in...
Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street leaves Riot – and the Runeterra MMO he was spearheading
Greg Street aka Ghostcrawler, formerly of Blizzard and World of Warcraft fame and lately of Riot Games, has apparently decided to leave Riot -...
Riot Games alums form The Believer Company, putting $55M investment to work on possible MMO
The parade of new studios formed from major gaming industry players and backed by serious venture capital investor cash continues today with the formal...
The Game Archaeologist: The tale of Infinite Crisis, Turbine’s extremely short-lived DC Comics MOBA
Sharp minds will recall that back in 2012, EA Mythic attempted to turn its declining MMO fortunes by repackaging Warhammer Online into a MOBA...
Games startup Elodie Games announces Project Skies, a ‘social cooperative action RPG game’
At this point, we all see a press release from a new startup studio with tons of investment money touting devs from the likes...
The MOP Up: New World brings a couple together in the name of love and conquest
A couple that met and fell in love while playing New World was invited by Amazon to share some tips about how to engage...
Vague Patch Notes: The three kinds of sunset in the MMO space
Not all sunsets are the same, no matter how much you may like a given game. This is one of the things that tends...
Legends of Runeterra promises quarterly releases in 2023 with new champions, modes, and features
"As a small team of passionate developers, we have been taking your requests for more content with more consistency seriously," opens part of a...
The Soapbox: Subscriptions might actually be the next big innovation in digital card games
What started earlier this week as a rant on how bad an idea a subscription model in Hearthstone would be evolved into something more:...
Riot Games says it won’t be extorted by hackers who breached League of Legends’ source code
Last weekend, Riot Games told fans of its games that it had been hit with a social engineering attack that led to the compromise...
Riot Games lays off 46 workers, adding to this month’s tech toll
Riot Games is the latest games industry megacorp to issue layoffs this week, though they're smaller in number than the thousands of workers shed...
Rumor: A League of Legends action game spin-off – Mageseeker – is in the works
If we can rip our eyes away from the still-veiled Riot MMORPG project, we might be surprised to learn that the studio has another...
The Daily Grind: What MMOs are you no longer anticipating?
There are several MMOs I'm no longer anticipating or even expecting to launch at this point, but let me pick one of the former...
League of Legends’ 2023 season trailer leaves fans underwhelmed and forces Riot to calm player concerns
Generally speaking, a hype trailer should... well, generate hype, and after the bombastic trailer for last year's season of League of Legends, players had...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2023
As 2022 drew to a close, we spent our Massively Overthinking roundtables discussing our predictions for 2023 as well as our goals. Now, we're...
End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2023
You know how some people like to push this narrative that "MMOs are dying?" If that were actually true, then my job to round...
Massively Uplifting: A season of gains and losses in the MMO world
Where has the year gone? Fall has wrapped up, winter is beginning, and the end of the year draws nigh. Today, many will be...
Riot Games struggles to get out of deal with failing crypto company
Riot Games is the latest entity that's learning the hard way that crypto isn't a fast track to wealth and success. Last year, the...
Riot Games takes NetEase to court over an alleged mobile Valorant-lookalike
Chinese gaming giant NetEase is facing down a legal challenge from Riot Games over a mobile title that, according to Riot's lawsuit, bears more...
