Major Chinese investment house known to online gamers in the west for its stake in a number of western games, including League of Legends and World of Warcraft.
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Sony is considering purchasing the Chinese firm Leyou
You probably don't think a whole lot about Leyou at this point, but you probably should; the holding company owns most of Digital Extremes...
Pokemon Unite is a new MOBA for mobile devices and Nintendo Switch from Nintendo and Tencent
Gosh, that... that headline basically says it all, doesn't it? Yes, Nintendo has announced Pokemon Unite, which is a Pokemon MOBA, a genre that...
Chaos Theory: Secret World Legend’s third anniversary and the 2020 MEGAversary event
Another year has come and gone. (Though we might be glad this one's over.) Secret World Legends, the reboot of the beloved Secret World,...
The MOP Up: Granado Espada got a brand-new server
Have you completely forgotten that Granado Espada -- also called Sword of the New World -- still exists? It does, and in fact, the...
MMO Business Roundup: Tencent facial recognition, Chinese gaming regulation, anti-cheat, and hackers
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news bits that just didn't fit in anywhere else.
First, Tencent has spent part of...
NCsoft Q1 2020: Double YoY revenue thanks to Lineage 2M, Tencent to pub Guild Wars 2 in China
Business is booming over in NCsoft's world, though it's not because of its western holdings. In this first quarter of 2020, the South Korean...
Funcom: DUNE still ‘a few years away,’ will be a ‘more ambitious and robust version of Conan Exiles’
This week, Funcom dropped its financial report for the entirety of 2019. It's not going to be a shock, since we covered all the...
MMO Business Roundup: Funcom’s corporate move, Japan’s ratings board, and Dean Hall’s next big thing
We're back with another roundup of MMO industry and business stories related to our corner of the online gaming world.
Funcom: Funcom is moving to...
Call of Duty wins a ‘first amendment’ lawsuit, Tencent sues cloud company for hosting its games
Ready for some litigious gaming news? Sure you are.
In part the first, we look towards vehicle manufacturer AM General and its 2017 lawsuit against...
Funcom Q4 2019: DUNE takes priority, Conan Exiles confirms paid expansion, Tencent buyout continues
It's been an interesting financial period for Funcom, what with the Tencent buyout and investors pushing for accelerated production on the DUNE survivalbox. The...
Hands-on with Dragon Raja: First impressions of Tecent’s new mobile MMORPG
I enjoy mobile MMOs. It's a hit-or-miss kind of genre: Some are great, others are terrible. I personally love the adventure of finding those good...
Funcom is rolling out a launcher for all its games, including Conan Exiles and Secret World Legends
It's no secret that Norwegian games developer Funcom has been upping its profile in the online gaming world, building on its long-running base of...
Apex Legends is getting a mobile version for the Chinese market
Mobile gaming and breaking into the Chinese gaming market (however lucrative that may or may not be) are still going to be things that...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 257: Daybreakup
Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak's split up, Tencent's Funcom bid, Torchlight Frontiers becoming a non-MMO, Temtem's early access, Rend's sunset, and DDO's new expansion, plus adventures in Neverwinter, STO, SWG, CoH, and Trove, and a mailbag discussion on changing MMO goals.
The Survivalist: So Funcom’s DUNE will be a survival game, not an MMO
Remember back in February of last year when we learned that Funcom inked an exclusive deal for at least three games based on Frank...
League of Legends Chinese pro esports league suspends events over spreading coronavirus
If you've somehow missed all the news about the growing coronavirus epidemic, we'll forgive you - it's been a wild news week in the...
MMO Business Roundup: Tencent, Ubisoft, Rockstar, energy, Creativerse, and Cold Iron Studios
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Tencent: Just before Funcom and Tencent announced the Chinese gaming giant was angling to...
Tencent wants to buy out the rest of Funcom as board recommends focusing on DUNE
My inbox this morning had half a dozen tips and press releases on this Funcom story, so you know we're doing it first thing:...
Tencent will host a cloud version of Blade & Soul in China soon
It's possible that the hacking cough that was Google Stadia's launch has turned you off from the notion that cloud gaming is the future,...
Tencent made bank in Q3 2019 thanks to mobile – not PC – games
While companies like Blizzard are seeing severe revenue drops this quarter and other MMO companies are trudging along, Tencent is having a rather up...
