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Read More »New World, Amazon Games’ first MMO, will release in May 2020
CCP, Remedy and Next Games alumni form new MMO studio, Mainframe Industries
"We can make bigger and better games with more complex physics simulation"
Read More »Developing MMO Lazarus put ‘a dangerous financial strain’ on Spilt Milk Studios
Lazarus is the third SpatialOS game to have been cancelled since May
Read More »MOBA and MMOs top marketing priority for English localisation
MOBA titles are the top-marketing priority for English-language game developers, according to a new report from online translation agency One Hour Translation. Whereas MOBA, MMO and MMORPG translation projects made up just 22 per cent of all game translations in 2016, that figure has since jumped to 54 per cent …
Read More »Final Fantasy XIV hits 10m players worldwide
Hot off the back of its latest expansion, Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy XIV has now surpassed 10m cumulative players worldwide. That figure does, admittedly, include free trial accounts, but to put that number in perspective, that’s still more than the total population of Scotland and Wales combined. …
Read More »Jagex goes mobile as RuneScape comes to smartphone and tablets
Old School RuneScape will become the first Western MMORPG to come both PC and mobile platforms
Read More »CCP to add colour blindness mode to EVE Online
Beta version to be released on the Tranquility server in June
Read More »Rovio announces new London studio and new IP
Angry Birds studio Rovio has announced the creation of a new development arm dedicated to massively multiplayer online games. The new team will be based in London and work on a new IP. Nothing has been revealed on this new game yet, only that it will not be set in …
Read More »Lord of the Rings Online gets new developer, Daybreak becomes publisher
The development team behind Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online have left Turbine, taking the games with them. Both titles will now be looked after by new indie studio Standing Stone Games. Furthermore, it has partnered up with Daybreak Games (formerly Sony Online Entertainment) which will …
Read More »Russian MMO Project Genom pulled from Steam Early Access
Popular new release pulled from Steam after internal strife at developers Neuronhaze
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