MMO Game Industry News

• 38 Studios Lays Off All Employees and Big Huge Games Shut Down

  Posted at Thu May 24 18:59:34 2012

  38 Studios and its subsidiary Big Huge Games have both laid off all employees on Thursday, May 24th, 2012. more>>

  

• Assassin's Creed Online? Ubisoft Massive Is Working on Next-gen MMORPG

  Posted at Thu May 24 05:56:26 2012

  Things are coming to light but still full of questions. Ubisoft is no doubt developing a MMORPG, but could it be Assassin's Creed Online? more>>

  

• Diablo III Breaks Fastest-Selling PC Game Record

  Posted at Wed May 23 21:44:08 2012

  Once an opinion spread through the Internet that PC gaming is dead, while Diablo III, the latest chapter in Blizzard’s critically acclaimed action RPG series with real-money auction house, no offline play and skill system more>>

  

• New CEO of Kingsoft Makes the Half-year Summary: Enhancing the Online Game Business

  Posted at Wed May 23 18:02:41 2012

  In the online game sector, Zhang Hongjiang has revealed that Kingsoft will launch six new MMO games this year in addition to the four online games operated by agencies. more>>

  

• The Giant Interactive Group INC Financial Reports Reveal It Will Transplant Zhengtu

  Posted at Tue May 22 19:17:52 2012

  The president of Giant Interactive Group INC Liu Wei indicates that the company this year will make strong efforts in developing browser games. Wu Meng, the former president of Dovo Technology INC has joined Giant as vice more>>

  

• Changyou Launches Next-gen Games, Hundreds of Millions Investment on the Next-gen Trend

  Posted at Mon May 21 18:49:10 2012

  Currently, internationally recognized next generation engine CryENGINE has evolved to the third version, and the Unreal Engine 3 has been updated once a month. The Unreal Engine 4 is expected to be commercialized in the near more>>

  

• WeMade Entertainment Annouced Its Exhibition Plans at E3 2012

  Posted at Sun May 20 21:46:19 2012

  Lately, WeMade Entertainment announced its participation at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) at the Los Angeles Convention Center, June 5-7, 2012 as well as its exhibition plans to showcase social lineup of eight titles more>>

  

• Here's the Graphics of Unreal Engine 4

  Posted at Fri May 18 20:44:20 2012

  We are still unable to see the full demo at the moment but we can expect the final and official annoucement in E3 2012. more>>

  

• CGBC: Deep Analysis of Marketing Strategies of Online Game Micro-Video

  Posted at Fri May 18 02:10:02 2012

  Online video has appeared unexpectedly in the recent years and has become one of the most influential new media of Internet. According to data provided by ComRatings, the users of online video in 2011 reached 400 million more>>

  

• New CEO of Kingsoft Makes The Half-year Summary

  Posted at Fri May 18 01:38:51 2012

  Kingsoft CEO Zhang Hongjiang summarized the business adjustment during his half-year duty in the company in an internal email. more>>

  

• WWECON 2012 Is Calling for Speeches

  Posted at Thu May 17 18:53:56 2012

  WWECON 2012, is trying to be one of the best opportunities for people within the mobile Internet entertainment industry to share their experience and updated technology, and explore direction of the future. This call for more>>

  

• Blizzard: It's Not A Bad Thing to Want to Make Money

  Posted at Wed May 16 23:07:28 2012

  I don't think it's a bad thing to want to make money. I think it's a bad thing to want to make money off things that are not a good service or product for your customer - Jay Wilson, Diablo 3's game Director more>>

  

• The Future of Paid MMOs

  Posted at Tue May 15 21:55:01 2012

  Players are naturally more likely to take a chance on a game when the initial investment is low. However, it's a large jump in logic to assume that because a few solid F2P games exist, all MMOs should be following that model more>>

  

• NCsoft Continued Losing Money; Blade & Soul Costs 43 Million USD

  Posted at Tue May 15 21:30:11 2012

  NCsoft has revealed its global financial results of Q1 2012. The report shows that the company still suffers from loss due to no new MMO released. more>>

  

• Diablo 3 Is Shattering Amazon's Most Pre-ordered PC Title Records

  Posted at Sat May 12 00:33:41 2012

  As the Diablo 3 release date(March 15th) is approaching, Diablo fans have pre-ordered Diablo 3 successively, and counting on the days on the edge of their chairs. more>>