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John Smedley's new blog has a lot to say about the future of MMO's, and how he feels that a lot of games are leaving out some very crucial player dependent elements.

Cyanide Studio announced this week that their free-to-play turn based strategy project Dogs of War has now entered it's Open Beta phase.

Applications are now available for the first Closed Beta phase of Bless Online in Korea.

It seems as though Transformers Universe has transformed into something new entirely.

If there's one thing SOE's president John Smedley likes to do, it's dropping vast amounts of tantalizing -and sometimes cryptic- update tidbits through Twitter concerning all the developers' latest endeavors.

Steam acquired another free-to-play game for their arsenal this week, as Adhesive Games announced that Hawken will be switching to Steam's platform.

Here we go again.

Pearl Abyss pleasantly surprised Russian fans in an interview with Goha.ru about their upcoming MMORPG Black Desert by announcing that an adaptation of the game will be ready much earlier for Russian gamers.

It was just by good happenstance that EverQuest Next Landmark became as big of a project as it has, with a now projected 20,000 alpha players, who are considered by SOE's Dave Georgeson to be part of the development team by de...

The highly customizable, exceedingly over-the-top, and diabolically graphic third-person shooter Loadout designed by Edge of Reality went live earlier today.

We heard back late last night from Funcom regarding its being raided by the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime.

While some might say MAIET isn't exactly the fastest gun in the west, they've finally set their sights on a US open beta release date for their highly anticipated third-person shooter GunZ 2: The Second Duel.

As reported by numerous venues, such as this one, Norwegian MMO developer Funcom was paid an unwelcome visit this morning by officials from the National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental C...

Although change in the MOBA world can be scarce at times, it appears DOTA 2 will be seeing a turning of a season at the end of this month with their New Bloom Festival event.

Raiders and conquerors seeking a new realm to pillage should be excited to hear that Ubisoft's new MMORPG, The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot, is moving forward toward release.

While it was quite a chaotic day for those partial to the MMO world provided by SOE, it seems there is a light at the end of its dark tunnel. In CEO John Smedley's AMAA on Reddit, he made a particular shout-out to both Star...

After what some might call a rocky start for Red 5 Studios and their MMOFPS / MMOTPS Firefall, things might be looking up for the developers and their future plans with the game.

Within the next couple of months, Sony Online Entertainment will be doing its spring cleaning early, starting the job by shutting down Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures and Free Realms on March 31st; then finishing it with Vang...

Blizzard tossed the RTS community an awesome bone this week by lifting even more restrictions on their Starcraft II Starter Edition.

On January 29th robots are set to invade the fantasy world of Aion.

Annihilation mode was unveiled this week for third-person shooter Loadout, just in time for the upcoming final release of the game.

Hearthstone's public existence has yet to pass the one year mark, and yet in that time the collectable card game from Blizzard has surrounded itself in a massive storm of attention.

It seems as though the RTS series Command and Conquer is destined for a Free-to-Play title after-all.

When Dusty Welch said in 2011 that his goal was to “dethrone the established leaders” with his new studio U4iA, it was easy to believe the former Activision employee and CoD developers offensive mentality toward reemerging i...

Mounted combat has finally made its way into Dragon's Prophet.