Publisher known in the west primarily for Skysaga and Lost Ark.
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Lost Ark’s May update, Chaos Rising, is live today with the Hanumatan trial guardian raid
If you feel chaos rising today, don't worry - it's just Lost Ark's May update. Chaos Rising is lighter on content, owing to the...
Amazon Games opens new studio in Romania to support ‘ambitious long-term roadmap’
As large parts of the games industry contract, Amazon Games is buying the dip and expanding with a new game dev studio in Bucharest,...
Lost Ark outlines plan for merging South American region into US East
Amazon has been talking up a big global merge for Lost Ark for the last few weeks, and now, we're finally getting some hard...
Lost Ark video recaps Chaos Rising, summer merges, and western skins
This week's Lost Ark Eye on Arkesia this week begins with accolades: Lost Ark players finally stopped cheating long enough for Amazon to crown...
Lost Ark appeases Echidna fans and sets server merges for June 5 – but not for NA West
Amazon's latest dev blog for Lost Ark is generating cheers from the playerbase, which is rare enough that you know we have to dig...
Lost Ark disqualified and punished Thaemine The First race cheaters
File this one under "this is why we can't have nice things": Apparently, some Lost Ark players thought they'd faff around with cheating the...
Lost Ark maps out new raids, continent, and progression systems coming through July 2024
If you can believe it, we're almost a third of the way into 2024, which means we're due for more roadmaps out of Amazon...
Pax Dei testing wrestles with stability and bugs, Abyss testing adds refinements and dragon attacks
It's been a busy time for the developing sandbox MMORPGs of Pax Dei and Abyss, as both games entered into their respective alphas this...
The MOP Up: FFXIV recaps its PAX East appearance
In case you missed it in person, you can catch up with all of Final Fantasy XIV's PAX East 2024 developments in a recap...
Lost Ark’s Darkness Unleashed is live with the Thaemine Legion Raid and gear transcendence
Amazon has successfully patched Lost Ark's April update as of this morning: Dubbed Darkness Unleashed, this is the patch with the Thaemine Legion Raid,...
Abyss is open now for playtesting ahead of its early access launch, delayed to May 7
It wasn't all that long ago that the PvP MMORPG Abyss promised it was going to open testing for free ahead of the game's...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that earned a notorious reputation
Nobody wants a bad reputation. I mean, you can't make everyone everywhere approve of you, but you also don't have to go out of...
Lost Ark debuts new video series, talks upcoming Thaemine hard mode and clear race
Amazon is clearly taking a new tack with comms on its MMORPGs, as New World's new video series Eye on Aeternum has now been...
LOTRO Legendarium: Middle-earth’s world integrity is an endangered species in MMOs
Back in 2018, Steven Spielberg adapted the popular novel Ready Player One into a film. It seemed like a great pairing: The master director...
MMO Business Roundup: The Gearbox sale, GDC 2024, and layoffs for SEGA and Smilegate
Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Embracer - The ailing games giant announced this morning that the rumored...
Smilegate surveils the astrological features of Lost Ark’s in-game lore
OK, listen. Astronomy is real. Astrology is not real. Video game astrology is... also not real, but at least it's harmless and no sillier...
Lost Ark’s Breaker and fresh catch-up mechanics arrive in tomorrow’s Break Through to Thaemine
"Break Through to Thaemine" may not exactly roll off the tongue, but it's rolling out to Lost Ark's live servers tomorrow anyway. And headlining...
Some Lost Ark servers were down nearly two days for merge issues, but everything’s back up now
It's finally over, at least until the next round of merges this summer: Lost Ark is now fully back online after nearly two days...
Lost Ark previews the Breaker coming March 20 as US West merge downtime continues
If you happen to be on one of the merging servers in Lost Ark's US West region, you probably have a bit of time...
Lost Ark wants your feedback on why you quit – and how bad the bots are
Lost Ark is in a weird position right now: It's in the middle of merges with more on the way, a plague of unrelenting...
