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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

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

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