Dungeons & Dragons Online interview: Reflecting on 15 years of adventure
Fifteen years feels like an eternity in the game industry. Looking back at February 2006, we were at the end of the PlayStation 2/Xbox...
Infinite Crisis and The Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine suffers layoffs
Warner Bros. cuts jobs at the Boston-based developer.
Free-to-play games catching MMO subscribers’ attention (and wallets)
The successful launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic notwithstanding, the business model of mandatory subscriptions for massively multiplayer online (MMO) games seems to...
A roundup of stories from the Game Developers Conference
Our GamesBeat team is exhausted after five days of covering the biggest show for game developers in San Francisco. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of...
Gaikai signs up Warner Bros.’ Lord of the Rings Online game for instant demos
Gaikai is announcing today it has signed up another partner — Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment — for its game-streaming business where it embeds instantly...
Will Trion’s Rift be cataclysmic for World of WarCraft?
Rift is one of the biggest bets in video game history. Trion Worlds has been building the fantasy role-playing online game world for almost...
Lord of the Rings Online doubles its revenue after going free-to-play
Turbine’s online role-playing game Lord of the Rings Online has doubled its revenue since it moved from a subscription model to a free-to-play model...
Lord of the Rings Online goes free-to-play this fall
Lord of the Rings Online will become a free-to-play game this fall as its new owner launches a major upgrade. The move is another...