Zynga’s stock has recovered most of its value following the announcement that CEO Don Mattrick would step down with Mark Pincus taking his place. Zynga’s stock fell heavily with Pincus’ return, down to a low of $2.38 from its $2.90. Investors are responding well to Zynga’s latest quarterly results, in which the company announced severe … Continue reading “Zynga Recovering With Higher Than Expected Earnings”
Old School RuneScape is gearing up for its 33rd content poll, asking for player approval on changes to the duel arena, among other things. The major parts of the upcoming poll involve duel arena updates, a world switcher, clue scrolls, grand exchange slots, and more. You can head over to the dev blog to see … Continue reading “Old School RS Polls Duel Arena Changes”
Let’s get one thing out of the way: I haven’t played The Old Republic in a very, very long time. Before strongholds, before legacy, before achievements, before just about any of that stuff. I think I might have logged in once or twice after the game went free to play, but aside from that all … Continue reading “Diaries From The Old Republice: Fly Me To Coruscant”
Arktech Revolution is the fifth and final DLC installment for Defiance’s first season pass, and one that I welcome with open arms. It’s been a month since this DLC launched and a few people speculated that the sudden lack of a review here at MMO Fallout was me signaling that I was done with the … Continue reading “MMOments: Defiance DLC #5”
One of the memes floating around the internet in regards to Final Fantasy XIV is that the company would rather shut the game down before ever considering a switch to free to play. As Naoki Yoshida confirmed in a recent interview with Dengeki Online, this isn’t so much the case: As far as the monthly … Continue reading “Naoki Yoshida Not Against Free To Play”
Goblinworks CEO Ryan Dancey found himself in the news this week by penning an editorial defending The Elder Scrolls Online and the game’s planned subscription system. In the op-ed, Dancey states his belief that not only are subscriptions responsible for more than $100 million a year in the west, but that it is hard to … Continue reading “Pathfinder's Backing Of Elder Scrolls Online”
Goblinworks CEO Ryan Dancey found himself in the news this week by penning an editorial defending The Elder Scrolls Online and the game’s planned subscription system. In the op-ed, Dancey states his belief that not only are subscriptions responsible for more than $100 million a year in the west, but that it is hard to … Continue reading “Pathfinder’s Backing Of Elder Scrolls Online”
It’s been a while since we heard anything related to Line of Defense. In a post on the game’s official blog, 3000ad inc announced that players should be “rolling in awesomeness by Q2/14.” Having switched from a custom internal engine to a custom middleware engine (Havok Vision Engine), we did have some setbacks during the … Continue reading “Line of Defense Coming 2014”
City of Steam is a heavy contender for the most disappointing MMO of 2013, and even if the upcoming relaunch and branding as Arkadia goes well, the story of the folks at Mechanist Games will no doubt find its way into the nightmares of indie gamers everywhere. Much like how we use viruses and bacteria … Continue reading “City of Steam Is A Chilling Lesson For Indies”
Trion Worlds has announced an upcoming server merge to the MMO Rift. Previously Trion would sneak around the need to merge their shards by switching them into “trial” mode and forcing players to transfer off of them anyway. This time around the company is going for a good old fashioned merger, shutting down three North … Continue reading “Rift Server Merger Incoming”
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