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Blizzard dropping gender change charge for World of Warcraft News Jul 10th, 2020

Blizzard dropping gender change charge for World of Warcraft

"We realised: 'Gosh the only way you can change your gender in World of Warcraft is to go through this paid service'."

Blizzard to merge less-populated WoW servers with more popular ones News Jul 6th, 2020

Blizzard to merge less-populated WoW servers with more popular ones

Company to let players know which realms will be affected ahead of time

Nexon axes MMO MapleStory 2 News Mar 19th, 2020

Nexon axes MMO MapleStory 2

Servers to be shut down in May

NetEase takes over Eve Online publisher role in China News Mar 13th, 2020

NetEase takes over Eve Online publisher role in China

Relaunch set to happen "soon"

Jagex hits all-time RuneScape membership high News Jan 16th, 2020

Jagex hits all-time RuneScape membership high

Meanwhile, the retro-themed Old School hits high for daily active users during 2019

Final Fantasy XIV director Yoshida isn't threatened by games like Fortnite and Overwatch News Dec 10th, 2019

Final Fantasy XIV director Yoshida isn't threatened by games like Fortnite and Overwatch

Audience for those titles is younger than that of Square Enix's MMO

CCP now lets Eve Online devs play game with anonymity News Nov 28th, 2019

CCP now lets Eve Online devs play game with anonymity

Follows a 12-year restriction

World of Warcraft Classic growing subscriptions for the MMO News Nov 8th, 2019

World of Warcraft Classic growing subscriptions for the MMO

Follows subscription revenue spiking in August

Devcom 2019 - Here's why Cipsoft isn't banning cheaters from MMO Tibia News Aug 18th, 2019

Devcom 2019 - Here's why Cipsoft isn't banning cheaters from MMO Tibia

"Players were blocked from botting, but not punished for trying"

Developer Klang lands $22.3m funding for SpatialOS-powered MMO Seed News Aug 16th, 2019

Developer Klang lands $22.3m funding for SpatialOS-powered MMO Seed

Led by Novator Partners, with Lego's VC arm chipping in some cash, too

Spilt Milk cancels indie MMO Lazarus News Aug 12th, 2019

Spilt Milk cancels indie MMO Lazarus

This is the third SpatialOS title to bite the dust in the last three months

Amazon partners with Leyou for new MMO RPG based on Lords of the Rings News Jul 11th, 2019

Amazon partners with Leyou for new MMO RPG based on Lords of the Rings

“Tolkien’s Middle-earth is one of the richest fictional worlds in history”

Bossa's ambitious SpatialOS-powered Worlds Adrift is shutting down in July News May 30th, 2019

Bossa's ambitious SpatialOS-powered Worlds Adrift is shutting down in July

"Creating an MMO like Worlds Adrift is a huge financial commitment and unfortunately, the game is just no longer commercially viable"

ArenaNet says Guild Wars 2 is unaffected by layoffs, studio try to support remaining staff News Apr 17th, 2019

ArenaNet says Guild Wars 2 is unaffected by layoffs, studio try to support remaining staff

"Some people who had moved onto other projects came back"

Pearl Abyss' Black Desert franchise crosses $1bn revenue News Apr 11th, 2019

Pearl Abyss' Black Desert franchise crosses $1bn revenue

30 per cent on mobile

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