It looks like we're going to have to find another massive gaming industry lawsuit to scratch our heads over, folks: The En Masse vs. NCsoft civil case is finally over, having been settled out of court. Unfortunately, both companies have moved on to new and different struggles. TERA publisher En Masse announced a round of company layoffs, while NCsoft posted a second-quarter earnings loss.
The remainder of this week's top MMO stories are tucked behind the break.
- Blizzard internal network hacked, Battle.net accounts compromised
- Greg Zeschuk not leaving BioWare, just General Manager position
- Funcom says The Secret World metascores are to blame for share price drop
- Another Guild Wars 2 stress test (and another one) (and another one)
- Rhode Island possesses 38 Studios' games, looks to sell
- How The Secret World has spoiled an MMO vet
- A brief history of Guild Wars 2's Tyria parts one and two
- SOE elaborates on Vanguard's F2P conversion
- Massively's video impressions of RaiderZ
- The Road to Mordor: LotRO's next four expansions
- SOE defends EverQuest appearance system cost
- Felicia Day unboxes Guild Wars 2 Collector's Edition
- Vanguard soft launches free-to-play a week early
- Stalk your friends with Diablo III's new character profiles
- Player banks $10,000 with Diablo III
- SWTOR lead writer hints at future content
- DayZ surpasses one million unique players
- Massively's hands-on with MMO brawler Forge
- PWI: Reflections update coming August 8
- Square-Enix releases second FFXIV 2.0 trailer
- SWTOR demoing Ancient Hypergates warzone at Gamescom
- Torchlight exec on MMO: 'It may be radically different'
- The Secret World's first raid debuts at Gamescom
- Valve removes 'player-created' Aion mace from Dota 2
- The trouble with RIFT's wardrobe system
