Major studio known to MMO fans primarily for The Crew and The Division.
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Perfect Ten: 10 more MMOs you’ve already forgotten ever existed, from Elyon to Defiance
Last year, I assembled a list of 10 former MMOs that not only have ceased to exist but have ceased to be remembered (for...
Layoffs have once again impacted workers at Ubisoft and Microsoft
We have the unfortunate duty to report that layoffs in the gaming industry don't appear to be abating anytime soon, as there are new...
Amazon Games shares its long focus approach while saying that the Lord of the Rings MMO is ‘not too far away’
It can be pretty easy to assume that the strategy of Amazon Games is to throw handfuls of anything at the wall to see...
The MOP Up: Among Us adds three new playable roles
Highly sus game Among Us added three new roles with its latest update: Tracker (keep tabs on Crewmates via the minimap), Noisemaker (make noise...
Skull and Bones latest S2 patch buffs the call-for-help and bounty systems
Early this morning, Ubisoft deployed Skull and Bone's latest update, the first post-season 2, unexcitingly named Y1S2.1.
Of note, the studio has overhauled the call-for-help...
SGF 2024: Ubisoft unveils new content for The Crew Motorfest, Skull & Bones, and The Division 2
The final breathless gasp of this year's Summer Game Fest presentations has occurred, as multiple days' worth of gaming showcases has ended with Ubisoft...
Persist Online interview: CipSoft explains why Persist is an MMORPG, not a survival shooter
Earlier this week, we covered the surprising news that Tibia developer CipSoft has a new MMORPG on the way. At least, the studio is...
Ubisoft’s The Crew Motorfest announces season 4, fanning the flames of East vs West Coast rivalries
Ubisoft announced a new season for The Crew Motorfest aka The Crew 3 this week: Season 4 launches July 3rd, free for owners of...
Skull & Bones adjusts its Season 2 manufactory defense activity and deep-dives the Helm
Now that Season 2 of Skull & Bones is well underway, it's time for developer Ubisoft to begin the process of making adjustments based...
Skull & Bones begins the Chorus of Havoc season with new endgame, ship, and weapon types
Despite the game's arguably bumpy arrival, Ubisoft's piratical multiplyer game Skull & Bones is pushing ahead with Season 2 today, launching what it calls...
PSA: Skull & Bones will be free-to-play for a week starting on May 30
While much of the focus out of Ubisoft's piratical multiplayer title Skull & Bones has been about May 28th's Season 2 release and all...
WoW Factor: Story Difficulty is a bad idea and a good idea all rolled into one
Back during Wrath of the Lich King, I remember people asking for a story difficulty for raids in World of Warcraft because if the...
XDefiant’s free-to-play launch recovers after initial matchmaking server issues
This week brought another competitive FPS game to the multiplayer world in the form of XDefiant, Ubisoft's swing at making a team vs. team...
Ubisoft’s Skull & Bones plans season 2 endgame revamp with two new solo PvE modes
Last week, we got a bit of a tease from Ubisoft's Skull and Bones as it wound down its first quarterly season of play,...
MMO Business Roundup: Nexon’s Q1 2024, Microsoft’s AI fiddling, XDefiant’s monetization
Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! This time around, we've got only one first quarter report to...
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,...
Ubisoft cancels The Division Heartland in spite of record annual corporate revenues
There's a big blast of bad news for Ubisoft and everyone else coming out of the company's latest financial report: The company has outright...
Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones teases season 2 content and resets for season 1
As Ubisoft's beleaguered pirate MMO Skull & Bones approaches the end of its first season of play, the company has dispatched a dev stream...
Stop Killing Games opens worldwide petitions and shares a UK government response in update video
Readers will likely remember that last month we reported on the Stop Killing Games initiative, a grass roots campaign started by YouTuber Ross Scott...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO companies care about game preservation?
With game preservation back in the news thanks to Ubisoft's The Crew criming and the Stop Killing Games initiative, I thought it would be...
