Category: News

In October 2018, Blizzard Entertainment’s long-time president Mike Morhaime announced that he was vacating his position but continue to provide “strategic advice to the company”. In a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Delaware, Activision-Blizzard has announced that Morhaime is severing his ties completely. His last listed day of service at ATVI is April 7, 2019, a scant 5 months after being named a strategic advisor.

North America players looking for mobile MMO action may wish to check out Gravity Interactive’s Ragnarok M: Eternal Love Global. The game has entered its open beta phase and seeks to bring players the “true” Ragnarok Online experience on mobile devices.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has been updated with two new “Lost Tales of Greece”. Both stories are free content for all players. The first is live now, the second will arrive a bit closer to the end of January. The Daughters of Lalaia has players working with villagers to help prepare for imminent danger, while Poet’s Legacy provides players with a journey to meet up with Greece’s “most scandalous poet” where they become “increasingly involved in her risque performances”. Sounds….fun…

It appears that FoxNext Games and Cold Iron Studios are working on a massive multiplayer online shooter based on the Alien series of games and movies. “FoxNext Games’ studio, Cold Iron Studios, is also currently at work on a massively multiplayer online shooter set in the Alien cinematic universe for consoles and PC.”

There’s always a lot of talk about virtual item prices, but today’s news takes the cake. It appears that someone in Ragnarok M, the mobile version of Ragnarok Online, has forked over about $60,000….yes, you read that right…for a virtual mount called the Key of Heaven. The player-to-player exchange came via the Ragnarok M auction house and involved premium currency called Big Cat Coins. These can be purchased for real world currency at the rate of 6 BCC per $1.

Late last week, it was announced that Activision Chief Financial Officer Spencer Neumann was leaving, or was fired, to take a new position at Netflix, it has come to light that Blizzard’s CFO Amrita Ahuja has also departed ATVI after eight years. She has left Blizzard in order to join mobile payment organization, “Square”.

Bethesda and Behaviour Interactive have announced that an amicable resolution has been reached in the lawsuit between the two. The suit was filed in June 2018 regarding alleged similarities between Bethesda’s Fallout Shelter game and Behaviour’s Westworld game. Behaviour had previously worked on Fallout Shelter and Bethesda alleged that some of that code was used in the Westworld mobile game developed by Behaviour at a later date for Warner Bros. Interactive.

Former Hearthstone Executive Producer Ben Brode has resurfaced with a huge announcement today. Brode and Hamilton Chu (also former Hearthstone) formed Second Dinner in late 2018 but have been cagey about what they were up to…until today. The pair have revealed a $30M minority investment from NetEase and a deal with Marvel for an as-yet-unannounced mobile game.

On January 24th, NCSoft will launch its first mobile RPG in the west. Called Aion: Legions of War, the game challenges players to collect over 100 different heroes across several disciplines including tanks, DPS and healers. Players will be able to create almost innumerable combinations to create teams to take into dungeons, the PvP arena and more.

According to Reuters.com, Nexon founder Kim Jung-ju is ready to unload his controlling block of stock in the company worth approximately nearly $9B USD. Jung-ju owns 98.6% of the available stocks, essentially putting the company up for sale. The report came via the Korea Economic Daily with unconfirmed “inside sources” providing the information. However, and as a result, the value of Nexon shares on the Tokyo stock market rose nearly 30% in some cases.