week in review

Blizzard dominated the MMO headlines this week, though not really for good reasons, as UK regulators blocked Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard buyout and the company rushed...

Lord of the Rings Online characters will soon be able to adopt a whole new look as Standing Stone Games announced this week that...

Amazon Games was the latest victim of the broader Amazon corporation's latest round of mass layoffs this week, specifically the San Diego branch whose...

April Fools' Day is more like April Fools' Week in MMOs, and nowhere is it more elaborate than in Guild Wars 2, which reopened...

With Blizzard's Diablo IV open beta wrapping up tomorrow, the multiplayer world is certainly wrapped up in excitement and/or queues; our own previewers found...

Diablo IV rolled into its paid beta this weekend, stuttering with queue and performance issues that Blizzard rushed to amend. We'll have two impressions...

While its NDA remains in place, multiplayer co-op title Wayfinder did let media and players take a peek behind the curtain this week, and...

The first episode of Guild Wars 2's post-End-of-Dragons not-a-living-story season rolled out this week, sending players back to Cantha with the crew to solve...

Amazon made two huge announcements that stole the MMO show this week: First, it's publishing NCsoft's Throne & Liberty in the west, and second,...

ArenaNet surprised fans this week with the announcement that it's essentially retiring the concept of Guild Wars 2's living world seasons going forward, switching...

Blizzard dominated headlines this week as Blizzard counted its best quarter for monthly active players across all of its online games since it started...

Cheaters did their best to spoil this week in MMOs as Final Fantasy XIV was ensnared by a scandal over players using forbidden plugins...

Elder Scrolls Online kicked off the end of January with its reveal of Shadow Over Morrowind, the Necrom chapter, and the Scribes of Fate...

World of Warcraft players got an extra dose of fireworks for Lunar New Year this week as NetEase clapped back at Blizzard, which apparently...

Final Fantasy XIV's Gods Revel, Lands Tremble released this week, introducing a new dungeon, trials, storyline, and island sanctuary expansions in the first big...

The first week of the year may be quiet for MMOs, but we're not: This week, we bottled hype for Final Fantasy XIV's impending...

The last week of the year is never huge on news, but we still had some bright spots - chief among them being the...

The week before Christmas is often a dumping ground for news studios need to offload before they go on break, and this week was...

It's tradition for us to pick out one big story or narrative arc that defined the year and slap it with an award label,...

World of Warcraft continued making waves all week: Blizzard announced a new trading post feature that doesn't sound half bad, Chris Metzen returned as a...