“Once contribution and reputation building can be automated, the attack surface moves from the code to the governance process around it. Projects that rely on informal trust and maintainer intuition ...

Years ago, Microsoft and developer Ensemble Studios were working on a Halo MMO project. The game never materialized, though, and now one of its developers, Rob Fermier, has shared some further insight ...

The BitCraft Online team has begun the process of making its code open-source, a promise developer Clockwork Laboratories announced last April. In this first phase, the server source code has been ...

Former World of Warcraft producer Raymond Bartos has joined Riot Games, giving fans renewed hope that the League of Legends MMO might actually come out. We found out Riot Games’ highly anticipated MMO ...

While big budget MMOs are on the decline, the indie MMO market is trying to keep the genre alive. There’s quite a few floating around at the minute, though one of them stands out, with it being ...

This has been an interesting year for MMO expansions. While we saw Classic World of Warcraft receive Mists of Pandaria Classic this year, the majority of the expansions released were by the smaller ...

Game development on the most basic of titles is tricky enough, but massively multiplayer online role-playing games are a different beast entirely. MMORPGs have to be a big enough world to justify a ...

An MMO based on Sony's Horizon series is on the way. However, Horizon Steel Frontiers is not coming to PS5, at least not initially. It's a mobile-first game that's also coming to PC, in another ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Sony and NCSoft are developing Horizon Steel Frontiers, a new MMO designed ‘specifically for mobile.’ Sony and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Jagneaux is a writer and analyst, covering MMOs and retro games. Developing massively multiplayer online roleplaying games ...

Near the beginning of November, word broke that Marvel Rivals publisher NetEase had shut down Fantastic Pixel Castle, the studio founded by former World of Warcraft lead system designer Greg Street ...

Greg Street said in October that Fantastic Pixel Castle would "likely close" if it couldn't secure new funding, and now the curtain has fallen. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...