On April 24, 2018 an official post on the WarpPortal forums stated that all games and services to the European region will be terminated on May 25, 2018. An IP block will then be put in place to prevent EU players from accessing WarpPortal titles. Services to Russia and CIS countries (such as Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova) will continue as normal. [...]
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SuperdataResearch released an interesting chart today showing Dota 2's decline since its peak with the 7.0 update over a year ago. Dota 2 peaked at nearly 14 million monthly active players with the 7.0 update and has since fallen to 10.6m monthly active users. While Dota 2 is by no means a dead game, the trend seen above is definitely [...]
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Last week, PUBG Corp. filed a copyright infringement suit against NetEase and their Rules of Survival and Knives Out Battle Royale games. According to the lawsuit filed in the Northern District Court of California, NetEase allegedly “cloned” PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and released Rules of Survival for mobile devices “at or below cost for the purpose of gaining market share before PUBG [...]
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Secret World Legends Game Director Romain “Tilty” Amiel has left Funcom after 11 years with the Norwegian game development company. Amiel bids the Funcom community farewell on the official forums: “Today was my last day at Funcom. After almost 11 years (8 of these on TSW!), I’ve decided to follow up on other opportunities. My top priorities over the last [...]
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When you’re the leader of a group, giving every member the freedom to come up with new ideas and think outside the box is definitely better than forcing a single idea on the whole group. This is probably what Korean gaming giant Nexon had in mind when it granted full autonomy to 7 internal studios. MMOCulture reports that Nexon restructured [...]
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Valve made several changes to their profile privacy settings on April 10. Some of these changes, namely making user's games libraries private by default,have had immediate and dramatic effects on the broader Steam ecosystem. Among the victims of this change was SteamSpy, a popular data aggregation site heavily trafficked by both players and developers. The site tracked sales numbers, player [...]
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The Fortnite Battle Royale hype train continues. Superdata Research released their February, 2018 statistics this week for the highest grossing games and Fortnite came out ahead this month surpassing heavyweights like World of Warcraft and Hearthstone. Playerunknown's Battlegrounds remained 1 spot ahead this month, but I suspect Fortnite should surpass it by the time March's data gets released and Fortnite [...]
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Co-creator of Counter-Strike Minh "Gooseman" Le joined South Korean game developer Pearl Abyss this last week. Gooseman will not however be working on Black Desert Online and will instead focus his efforts on a new project. While Gooseman is a legendary name in gaming circles, he hasn't had much luck with his most recent gaming project, a tactical shooter called [...]
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In December of 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a new controversial addition to its official mental health classification guide. For its upcoming revision in May 2018, the WHO will be looking to add the term "gaming disorder" to its International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The inclusion of a "gaming disorder" label as a mental health issue is currently [...]
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Long gone are the early days of online gaming, the wild west where wanton and lawless players were free to lie, cheat, steal and rage as they pleased. Developers and publishers were none too fond of these players for obvious reasons; but as the gaming industry has grown bigger and more profitable over the years, these companies have become bolder [...]
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