As you may have heard, game publisher Mail.Ru is pulling the plug on Armored Warfare (AW) game developer Obsidian Entertainment (OEI) and taking the development effort in-house. This is rather unfortunate, as I had a positive impression of OEI and…
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Interview with My.com Senior Producer Josh Morris on Armored Warfare at GDC 2016
I sat down with Josh Morris at Game Developers Conference 2016 for an hour to discuss all things Armored Warfare (AW). Josh is the Senior Producer at My.com and previously worked at Wargaming for three years as NA Producer for…
ArenaNet Executes a Deft Recovery for Heart of Thorns With F2P and Raid Annoucements
ArenaNet (AN) just executed one of the most deft and savvy recoveries I’ve seen in addressing player angst about an upcoming expansion. In January, AN announced the Heart of Thorns (HoT) expansion for Guild Wars 2 (GW2). There was much…
WildStar (Finally) Going F2P
Two notable MMORPGs launched in 2014 with subscription models: Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) and WildStar. Four months ago, Bethesda Softworks announced that ESO was going B2P (buy-to-play). Today, Carbine announced that WildStar is going F2P (free-to-play). For whatever reason, game developers have been painfully slow on…
Sometimes Games Do Evolve For The Better (Guild Wars 2)
In February, I was pretty burned out from World of Tanks (WoT) and decided to take a look at Guild Wars 2 (GW2), which I hadn’t meaningfully played since 2013. Most of my 2014 gaming time was spent on WildStar…
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