Square Enix President Talks 2022, The Metaverse, and Blockchain – Acknowledges Player Hesitancy

Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda took to the Square Enix Holdings website with his New Year’s Letter, which covers a number of different topics that the company aims to focus on throughout 2022. While the vast majority of the letter revolved around the influence of blockchain games, NFT and the metaverse, Matsuda also spoke of Square Enix’ investment into artificial intelligence and cloud technologies and how they intend to leverage all emerging tech in the future.

Indie MMO Spotlight: Looking Back At 2021

Is there anyone who isn’t happy that 2021 is over? Even with all of its challenges, 2021 was still a busy time for our indie developers. So it’s not surprising that even with many developers taking a break for the holidays, several took the time to recap their efforts of the prior year and give us a look at what to expect in 2022. Even though there was less news than usual, let’s go ahead and kick of 2022 with this week’s Indie MMO Spotlight.

Indie MMO Spotlight: Jobs, Developer Interviews, And Fishing

Welcome back for another roundup of indie MMO news. It was a little quieter than usual this week, but what it lacked in quantity, the indie MMO universe was packed with quality. There are plenty of test events coming up, and several MMOs are already starting their Christmas events. With all of those events, I expect the last few weeks of the year will be a busy time for our favorite indie devs. Speaking of busy, it’s time you get busy reading this week’s Indie MMO Spotlight.

MMORPG Streams New World: Join Bradford For War! – UPDATE

War is upon us and Bradford wants to make a spectacle of it all. New World’s set-piece PvP war mode is descending upon his server, and for some reason he wants to make a fool of himself online in front of people while assaulting Windsward. Join in at 5pm PT/8pm ET on our Twitch channel.