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Developers urged to look beyond vocal minority and investigate commercial practices of top games
Read More »Does aggressive monetisation work?
Nick Gibson considers the financial reality of gaming's bolder business models
Read More »RuneScape 3 makes transition to HTML5 July 22nd
Jagex labels new release 'most significant update' yet
Read More »Ex-Blizzard dev: World of Warcraft killed a genre
Mark Kern claims WoW team lowered the MMO difficulty curve too much
Read More »RuneScape heads to Brazil, as Jagex expands
Cambridge studio bringing MMO to more emerging markets, starting with South America
Read More »Champions Online developer opens Seattle studio
New office to be headed up by director Russell Williams
Read More »Perfect World and Cryptic Studios form Cryptic North
Champions Online developer Cryptic Studios and publisher Perfect World Entertainment have created Cryptic North to assist with the companies’ library of MMOs. The new Seattle-based studio will assist Cryptic in evolving its free-to-play superhero MMO, as well as provide support for other MMO titles like Star Trek Online and Neverwinter. …
Read More »Hackers take down Eve Online and Dust 514 servers
No customer data compromised as CCP turns MMOs back on
Read More »Blizzard ‘resets’ next-gen MMO Titan, cuts team size by 70 per cent
The next-gen MMO from the makers of World of Warcraft is now unlikely to arrive until 2016 at the earliest”. That’s according to VentureBeat which has word that Blizzard has decided to push the reset button” on the game known as Titan. It has also cut its development stream from …
Read More »Blizzard reboots Project Titan with 30 devs
Work restarts on MMO as developer makes large design and technology changes to game
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