valorant
CS:GO reboots F2P business model, tucking far more behind the paywall
Valve set off a dramabomb last night with its announcement that CounterStrike: Global Offensive would be dramatically changing its business model. The company essentially...
MMO Business Roundup: Chicken Drumstick, 9000 zombies, Valorant Mobile, Pantheon hiring, Secret World’s novels
Welcome back to our semi-regular roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent gaming industry news.
Chicken Drumstick: Yes, I'm afraid this is a real thing. Vice's Motherboard...
MMO Business Roundup: Valorant esports, South Korean politics, Netmarble, Nexon, and EVE Echoes
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Valorant: It's been an ugly week in esports, as Riot Games suspended esports...
The MOP Up: Valorant fights against the smurf invasion
What is Valorant doing to fix its matchmaking? The studio explains its system in a community Q&A session, in particular addressing the problem of...
Valorant will soon record and evaluate voice comms as part of efforts to fight harassment and abuse
If you play Valorant and are an unmitigated asshat to people over voice chat, believing you're safe from being found out in player reports,...
Not So Massively Roundup: Valorant’s Breeze, Apex’s Olympus, Runeterra’s expansion, and Jeff
Welcome back to another roundup of news for Not-So-Massively and MMO-adjacent games in the MMORPG orbit!
Valorant: Riot's Valorant has rolled out the Breeze map...
The MOP Up: The Day Before’s romantic apocalypse
Massively OP reader Lily tipped us off that The Day Before's devs recently sat down with WCCFTech for an interview about this upcoming survival...
MMO Business Roundup: Theorycraft, My.Games, the FIFA fixing lawsuit, and Roblox’s latest concert
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
Theorycraft: Could you found a new games studio on $37.5M? Yeah, probably. A bunch...
MMO Business Roundup: CDPR’s misery, Gamestonk revives, Riot’s Game Changers
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
Console shortages: You probably saw all kinds of headlines this week about how President...
SuperData says WoW’s player count is already ‘back to normal levels’ post-Shadowlands
How fast did the gaming world get over Cyberpunk 2077? One month, according to SuperData's latest revenue rankings. While CDPR's sprawling RPG dominated the...
Not So Massively Roundup: Fortnite Short Night, Runeterra’s Empires of the Ascended
Welcome to a roundup of some MMO-adjacent titles that sit just on the edge of our wheelhouse but not enough to tip it over...
The MOP Up: Valentine spirit sweeps through MMOs
MMO Love Bear, shine! Warm fuzzies and romantical notions are washing through various online games this month in anticipation of Valentine's Day this month.
Ultima...
MMO Business Roundup: Activision-Blizzard rebuffs diversity proposal, gaming Kickstarters are on the rise again
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent gaming industry news!
MMO Kickstarters may have lost the faith of the genre's playerbase, but for...
The MOP Up: Gran Saga’s big Korean launch
NPixel's cross-platform Gran Saga is finally going live this week -- albeit in Korea, for now. The attractive-looking mobile and PC title is supposed...
The MOP Up: Valorant welcomes Yoru to the roster
With the new character of Yoru joining up in Patch 2.0, Valorant's getting more interesting by the day. The team's also helping to clarify...
Riot Games and Bungie join forces to sue creator of Destiny 2 and Valorant cheat software
When I saw this story cross our news room, I immediately envisioned Guardians and Agents clapping hands together and very possibly pumping their arms...
The MOP Up: Flyff Classic is in the works
If you are one of the millions of die-hard Flyff Online fans who pine of the days of yore, then here's a great Christmas...
The MOP Up: Snake, Braddock, and Rambo charge onto World of Tanks Console
World of Tanks' console edition is getting all '80s happy with the launch of season 3 this month. Wargaming announced that players can obtain...
Valorant patches in map adjustments and a snowball fight, joins in on a digital art and music festival
It looks like the multiplayer shooter Valorant is keen on trying to balance being a competitive video game as well as a digital place...
New survey points to increase in hate and harassment in online multiplayer games
The behavior of people in online games does not appear to be improving for the better. According to national survey results from the Anti-Defamation...
