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.
tencent
WoW Factor: Tarisland and the cargo cult of World of Warcraft
We've all made jokes about Tarisland being "we have World of Warcraft at home." That's just a fun thing to make jokes about, and...
Tencent’s Tarisland offers a global release window of later this year and a new CG hype trailer
When NetEase and Blizzard had their messy breakup that ultimately lead to World of Warcraft being pulled from China, Tencent swooped in with an...
Amazon has revived its Lord of the Rings MMORPG, now collaborating with Embracer
Amazon and Embracer announced this morning that they're building a new MMORPG based on The Lord of the Rings.
To understand what the heck is...
Lawful Neutral: What if Activision-Blizzard just… sold Blizzard?
Last week, Activision-Blizzard and Bobby Kotick got a bad surprise: The UK moved to block the acquisition of ABK by Microsoft, citing concerns over...
Tencent’s World of Warcraft clone, Tarisland, plans global rollout
The vacuum created by World of Warcraft's closure in China back in January created an opportunity for a new title to fill that void:...
Dune Awakening’s latest teaser video focuses on the terrifying sandworm
Don't get too excited, but Funcom has posted another video as part of its "Shigawire Reels" series for upcoming MMO Dune Awakening. In fact,...
E3 2023 has officially been cancelled
This probably isn't going to come as a surprise to anyone, but it's still a significant announcement. E3 2023 has been cancelled outright according...
Sega, Tencent, and Ubisoft are the latest game studios to drop out of this year’s E3
It was already bad enough for E3 2023 that Sony, Nintendo, and Xbox all elected to leave the show behind; now the show is...
Tower of Fantasy unveils server merge plans and quality-of-life adjustments arriving in update 2.4
While update 2.4 for Tower of Fantasy is bringing some deep sea content for players, there's more coming to the game in the patch,...
Congress is very disappointed in gaming’s response to extremism in games as the ESA downplays the problem
In mid-December, members of the US Congress sent signed letters to major game companies about what they're doing to combat the rise of online...
Funcom’s Dune Awakening teases exploration, survival, and ‘bespoke’ crafting
Way back in 2019, Funcom inked a deal to build a DUNE survival game, but just how MMO-like the game would be has remained...
Tencent’s survival shooter Undawn opens closed beta signups for April test round
Almost two years ago, Tencent's Lightspeed & Quantum announced Undawn, a UE4 post-apoc multiplayer open-world survival game, which promised everything from PvE and PvP...
Dune Awakening posts a skimpy informational video, promises details on next beta ‘in the coming months’
Dune: Awakening appears to be in no hurry to tell anyone about itself. Funcom has offered up a 31-second video for the developing survival...
Activision-Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick says Sony won’t return his phone calls
Bobby Kotick and the Activision-Blizzard board have shied away from investor calls for the last year as the Microsoft buyout looms, but that hasn't...
NCsoft West loses CEO, lays off 20% of staff, says Throne & Liberty is not impacted
With NCsoft's Q4 financials looming in February, the company has apparently opted to follow Silicon Valley's destructive lead and add to the layoff pile...
EA is sunsetting Apex Legends Mobile, canceling Battlefield mobile game
Electronic Arts delivered its Q3FY23Â investor report this afternoon, and it wasn't a bad one; the company saw net revenues up for the quarter and...
Lunar New Year events and sales across the MMO universe
Well, the MMO genre has finally done it: It's finally given us enough Lunar New Year events to make a roundup worthwhile. Lunar New...
Get a first peek at Tencent’s new Chinese WoW clone, Tarisland
I know you'll be shocked to hear it, but people like World of Warcraft enough to try to clone it! Oh, what's that? We...
The Stream Team: Gunning down the nanobot menace in the Synced open beta
The world has been taken over by killer nanobots and it's up to MOP's Chris to try to stop them! He'll be heading into...
Looter shooter Synced runs open beta through mid-January
A little sedate from eating all of that holiday ham and rolling around in the intoxicating scent of Christmas wrapping paper? Then get your...
