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Sony resolves to ‘fail early and cheaply’ and improve testing as it keeps chasing a live

Despite Sony admitting to investors that its live service games strategy isnt quite going to plan, it would appear that the higher-ups among the compa

Chris Neal 2025-08-25 0
‘We want to protect what we have’: Blizzard cinematics workers discuss the reasons for j

The growing formation of unions across Microsofts game studios, particularly at Blizzard, has been something weve been keeping a track of for some tim

Chris Neal 2025-08-23 0
Subnautica 2 dev supports taking breaks because survival fans aren’t as ‘monogamistic

We all take breaks from our main games from time to time for any number of reasons, and while that might rustle the jimmies of some of the bigger MMOR

Chris Neal 2025-08-11 0
Destiny 2 kicks off its annual Solstice summer event as former Bungie CEO reflects on live service g

The summer season is now in full swing in Destiny 2, as the looter shooter has officially begun its Solstice summertime event, which offers up some ne

Chris Neal 2025-08-06 0
MMO Business Roundup: Ubisoft execs sentenced, Stop Killing Games, and AAA game dev worries

Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Though this round of news is much more in the MMO-adjacent bucket than no

Chris Neal 2025-07-06 4
The MOP Up: Chrono Odyssey testers pinpoint pain points

Upcoming Korean MMO Chrono Odyssey recently wrapped up its first closed beta test and reported that while players liked the world and time travel syst

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-06 0
The Daily Grind: How do you handle a fight gone bad in an MMORPG?

Theres a point in Final Fantasy XIV fights that are going badly where you have no one left who can cast any kind of raise spell. So long as you have o

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-06 0
Insiders detail gameplay for Blackbird, the ‘f’ing incredible’ Zenimax MMO that Mi

The 9,000 workers shed from Microsofts games division saw not only massive losses in terms of workers, the end of content updates for other live title

Chris Neal 2025-07-05 0
Fallout 76 tests combat rebalancing and relaxed CAMP building

Fallout 76s public test server beeped, clicked, and whirred back to life this past week as Bethesda put a few significant changes through the player g

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-05 0
The Daily Grind: Should MMO pets feature more utility?

While MMO non-combat pets (or vanity pets) may not be everyones thing, I absolutely love mine. Its a small dose of artificial companionship during my

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-05 0
MMO Hype Train: Dipping into Monsters & Memories’ public alpha

As one of my personal anticipated upcoming MMOs, Ive been holding a weird, polygonal torch for the throwback styled MMO project, Monsters & Memories.

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-05 0
BioWare’s Anthem is shutting down altogether in 2026

Alas, poor Anthem; we knew it, Horatio. The game never really got over with players, and while it launched to two million units sold, it only ever hit

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-04 0
The Crew Motorfest celebrates Ferrari and European motoring in this week’s Season 7 update

Whether you consider yourself a card-carrying member of the Ferrari Tifosi, you like the Prancing Pony cars, or you just enjoy seeing fast new vroomy-

Chris Neal 2025-07-04 0
GTA Online, uh, embraces the Fourth of July spirit with extra rewards and discounts on vehicles, cos

Sometimes satire can be subtle and sneaky, but other times it can be swung at you like a cinderblock tied to a rope. Were suspecting the latter method

Chris Neal 2025-07-04 0
Final Fantasy XIV kicks off the Moogle Treasure Trove event on July 8

Allegory, for those unfamiliar, refers to the idea of something in a story having a metaphorical importance, so a dragon actually represents a kind of

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-04 0
The Stream Team: Some 4th of July Summerween fun in AdventureQuest 3D

If Massively OPs MJ loves Mogloween so much, how do you think shed react to a dose of AQ3Ds holiday during summer? She be stoked, of course! And for J

MJ Guthrie 2025-07-04 0
The Daily Grind: What *didn’t* you buy in the Steam sale that you thought you would?

OK, smartasses, I know you didnt buy the vast majority of things in the Steam sale. You know what I mean here. You have a wish list. You at least cons

Bree Royce 2025-07-04 0
Gachapwned: Gacha is not just a business model – it’s a vice

When I started off the Gachapwned series, I devoted the very first column to explaining that the gacha business model is inherently a predatory way of

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-04 0
Guild Wars 2 is teasing something (new elite specs? a bard?) with a countdown for two weeks from now

Guild Wars 2, what are you cooking up for us next expansion? The MMORPGs social media posted some artwork on Monday of a lute, with the cryptic captio

Colin Henry 2025-07-03 0
‘Adventure’ OARPG Vaultbreakers, now backed by Square-Enix investment, opens a week-long

Weve been covering BetaDwarfs multiplayer game Vaultbreakers for so long that its had two other names along the way Project Haven and Project F4E an

Bree Royce 2025-07-03 0

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