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Final Fantasy XIV has attracted 24m players News Oct 15th, 2021

Final Fantasy XIV has attracted 24m players

Title has brought in six million new users since the end of 2019

New Amazon boss says games could be its biggest entertainment business News Oct 6th, 2021

New Amazon boss says games could be its biggest entertainment business

Jassy points to New World as evidence of firm's potential

Amazon's New World hits 734k concurrent players News Sep 30th, 2021

Amazon's New World hits 734k concurrent players

And a peak viewership of 985,738 people on Twitch

CHARTS: Pre-orders for Amazon's New World heads up Steam Top Ten again News Aug 2nd, 2021

CHARTS: Pre-orders for Amazon's New World heads up Steam Top Ten again

Those who pre-purchase the title gain access to a closed beta

CHARTS: Amazon's New World pre-orders shoot to top of Steam charts News Jul 26th, 2021

CHARTS: Amazon's New World pre-orders shoot to top of Steam charts

Closed beta for the MMO started last week

Almost 6,000 people banned from Final Fantasy 14 for real-money trading News Mar 9th, 2021

Almost 6,000 people banned from Final Fantasy 14 for real-money trading

And that's just in one week

Amazon bumps New World back once again News Feb 17th, 2021

Amazon bumps New World back once again

The MMO is now set to launch in August

Blizzard tries to stamp out World of Warcraft multi-boxing News Nov 5th, 2020

Blizzard tries to stamp out World of Warcraft multi-boxing

Firm clamping down on those broadcasting inputs to multiple clients

Blizzard bumps World of Warcraft expansion Shadowlands News Oct 2nd, 2020

Blizzard bumps World of Warcraft expansion Shadowlands

Executive producer Hight says delay is to ensure release is of a high enough quality

Black Desert Online hits $1.7bn revenue milestone News Sep 11th, 2020

Black Desert Online hits $1.7bn revenue milestone

MMO has made $700m in the last 17 months

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

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