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Interview: Neverwinter devs on Sharandar’s cadence, systems overhauls, and future new class
Last week, Perfect World Entertainment announced Neverwinter's Sharandar expansion, a three-part update that kicks off with The Iron Tooth patch February 9th. Players are...
Neverwinter starts testing its fey Sharandar expansion
The first big MMO expansion of the year is already underway, as Neverwinter began testing the three-part Sharandar expansion on the Mimic server. This...
Kickstarted MMO card game HEX is closing at the end of the year
It's the 11th hour for HEX, a fascinating title that attempted to blend MMO and card game mechanics together. Also, there were battle bunnies....
Magic Legends’ next starting class is the white mana-using Sanctifier
Magic Legends has finally deigned to show off the latest of the multiplayer ARPG's starting classes. Say hello to the Sanctifier, a veritable beacon...
Former ArenaNet founder and former Riot Games dev get $5.7M for their startup studio One More Game
What can you do with $5.7 million? Apparently, beef up your own game studio. Patrick Wyatt, a former founder of ArenaNet and En Masse...
The Game Archaeologist: The history of play-by-email games
For most all of human history, people who wanted to play a game together usually had to be in physical proximity with each other....
MMO Business Roundup: Tim Sweeney’s politics gaffe, Nexon’s Q4 2019, and the old BioWare crew
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Politics in games
Epic's Tim Sweeney opened this week's DICE Summit with a whopper of...
Anthem’s weekly updates stay thin as the launch anniversary approaches
If you were hoping from something big from Anthem this week, with the anniversary of its launch rushing up on us soon, well, I'm...
MMO Business Roundup: Stadia, Coronavirus, E3, VR, EVE Fanfest, Discord, and WOTC’s BioWare devs
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Stadia: Google has responded to the uproar over its poor communication with the Stadia...
Cryptic’s Magic: Legends is an isometric RPG and not an MMORPG because of earth elemental butt
Yesterday, we got our first look at the gameplay in Cryptic's upcoming Magic: Legends MMO, and, well, it didn't go over that well. In...
Massively Uplifting: Gamers and studios raise millions for Extra Life and other charities
Had enough of the tricks of October? How about some treats now that we're in November! Generous donations #forthekids were collected by gamers and...
The ESA says a crapton of game companies are finally embracing lockbox transparency
Under pressure from no less than the US Senate, the FTC held the first of its planned video game monetization workshops today, and while...
Elder Scrolls Online issues an apology over the Elsweyr adventure plagiarism debacle
It was just supposed to be a fun little promo item to help spark excitement for The Elder Scrolls Online's next expansion, but the free Elsweyr...
Elder Scrolls Online yanks allegedly plagiarized Elsweyr-themed pen-and-paper adventure
As part of the promotional push to highlight the Elsweyr expansion coming to The Elder Scrolls Online, a Dungeons & Dragons adventure set in...
WoW Factor: Why Legion 2 wouldn’t win back the World of Warcraft crowd
Let's talk about fan expectations and naked fanservice for a bit. In fact, let's start with the Power Nine from Magic: the Gathering, and...
Here’s why a Magic: The Gathering hall-of-famer was disqualified from Mythic Championship II
It's not an MMO, but it's one more example of the problems of competitive gaming: Last weekend's Magic: The Gathering Mythic Championship II took...
SWTOR’s James Ohlen is heading up a new Wizards of the Coast game studio working on a new IP
I guess James Ohlen isn't totally out of game dev quite yet. After announcing his retirement in July of 2018 and then going on...
Valve parts ways with Artifact creator Richard Garfield in round of layoffs
Forget for one moment the horrific bleeding of Artifact's playerbase -- now the digital card game has lost its most high-profile designer.
We are just...
The Survivalist: Seven survival game features I want to see in 2019
A new year is all about new hopes, new goals, and -- hopefully -- new features and content. I am talking about games, of...
WOTC announces new esports initiative for Magic: The Gathering Arena
At tonight's Game Awards ceremony, Wizards of the Coast announced that it will be expanding the Magic: The Gathering competitive scene with a new...
