Important studio known to MMO players chiefly for Destiny.
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Perfect Ten: The MMO franchises that can’t count past two
Back in the day, there was a running joke about how Capcom had shown with Street Fighter that the company could not count higher...
Destiny 2 director Joe Blackburn vacates his position for ‘a new adventure outside the walls of Bungie’
After nearly a decade of working at Bungie and four years as game director of Destiny 2, Joe Blackburn has left his position, moving...
Bungie announces genius Destiny 2 collab with BioWare’s Mass Effect franchise
This week in transmedia synergy crosspromos that will break your brain along with the sanctity of whatever canon is left to us in MMOs...
The MOP Up: DDO’s Snowpeaks Festival returns
Just because winter is in full swing doesn't mean it has to be dour! Dungeons and Dragons Online is keeping things lively with the...
Former Bungie legal exec: ‘The company will never love you back, but if you let it, it’ll kill you’
Among the workers affected by Bungie's round of layoffs last October was former chief legal officer Don McGowan, who was the man heading the...
Co-op survivalbox Enshrouded just launched into Steam early access
When I logged into my guild's Discord this morning, I realized half my crew was excitedly chattering about Enshrouded, multiplayer survival sandbox that we...
Dungeons and Dragons Online’s systems designer talks about the epic destiny refresh
With a whole lot of systems under review for Dungeons and Dragons Online's Update 66, it's only logical that the games systems designer emerge...
Destiny 2 previews a new activity, new glimmer cap, customization updates, and Halloween costumes
Destiny 2 is once again back to its regularly scheduled weekly newsletters after a holiday-length hiatus, and this week's edition is looking forward to...
The Daily Grind: What will be the next MMO to undergo a big business model shift?
2023 turned out to be a weird year for business models in MMOs. It was certainly the year of cadence shifts and seasonal shifts,...
Dungeons and Dragons Online begins testing its new Dragon Lord Fighter archetype
It was just last Friday that Dungeons and Dragons Online's producer confirmed that the MMO was getting at least two new class archetypes in...
End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2024
As I say every single year and several people ignore every single year: This is not a column about the games that are most...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Best Worst MMO Transmedia Synergy
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Best Worst MMO Transmedia Synergy. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series,...
Choose My Adventure: All of the MMOs you made us play in 2023, from Guild Wars to Gorgon
Well here we are, my friends. It's always such a pleasure. Remember when your votes killed me twice? OK, maybe that's being overdramatic, but...
Jukebox Heroes: A yuletide soundtrack for a gaming holiday
The winter night hushed to a halt to allow the wind to whisper. "Take heart, my friends," she crooned over snow-capped hills and frozen...
The MOP Up: Warhammer Online’s Return of Reckoning ‘chickens out’
Return of Reckoning's rogue server changed how combat buffs worked and added a new level 40 quest that pays out in, er, a "Chicken...
Destiny 2 expands its fireteam finder beta to all activities and accentuates the positives of its 2023
The year's end for Destiny 2 was definitely not the brightest for Bungie, but the studio is electing to look at the bright side...
The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMO trend of 2023?
Layoffs.
No, really, I suspect "thousands of game devs being laid off from nearly every major game studio and also some of the small ones"...
PSA: You can get the Destiny 2 Legacy Collection free on the Epic Games Store right now
With underperforming revenues, staff layoffs, plummeting player counts, and an expansion delay until next summer, Destiny 2 is ending 2023 on a downward trend....
Destiny 2 celebrates the holiday season with the return of the Dawning event
Bungie is hoping that the dire state of its studio won't stop Destiny 2 players from enjoying (and probably buying) some holiday cheer as...
Bungie devs face the ‘soul-crushing’ pressure of financial targets, a Sony takeover, and threat of more layoffs
It's already been reported that life within Destiny 2 and Marathon developer Bungie is extremely unhappy in the wake of recent layoffs and the...
