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• CCP design director jumps ship for Bigpoint

  EVE Online veteran Craig Scott has left CCP to join German MMO developer Bigpoint Games.

• Bigpoint staff move to avoid further job cuts

  Employees at online gaming company Bigpoint have voted to install an employee organisation to represent them. German public services trade union Verdi has assisted the move and will manage working conditions.

• Bigpoint user base tops 300 million

  German MMO publisher Bigpoint has hit a major milestone – 300 million registered user worldwide.

• Bigpoint cuts 120 jobs in US and Germany, CEO stepping down

  Bigpoint has announced the departure of CEO Heiko Hubertz and the cutting of 120 jobs at the online gaming company, and the firm has announced it will no longer develop games in the US.

• Bigpoint launching free-to-play games on Amazon Game Connect

  The online gaming behemoth shows support for Amazon’s gaming channel with a host of its free-to-play games.

• Universal Monsters Online enters closed beta, now accepting open beta registrations

  Bigpoint has announced Universal Monsters Online has entered closed beta, and is now accepting open beta registrations. The free-to-play MOBA pits a cast of monsters into a “winner-take-all” timed gameplay session where two opposing teams are tasked with raiding enemy territory to locate a damsel in distress and returning her to the team’s fortress. During […]

• Reisberger brothers exit Bigpoint

  Managing directors Philip and Tobias Reisberger have left free-to-play publisher Bigpoint, Develop reports. The pair have launched a mobile developer, AppFlag, and a consulting business. Bigpoint has grown enormously during the pair’s tenure, adding a second CEO to its international business, enjoying marked success with Battlestar Galactica Online and the ridiculously lucrative Dark Orbit, and […]

• First Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms trailer rides in

  Check out the first footage of Bigpoint’s free-to-play MMO Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms.

• Game of Thrones MMO to be called Seven Kingdoms

  Bigpoint has settled on a subtitle for its browser-based Game of Thrones MMO – Seven Kingdoms. The title was announced in a press release but little else of note was added to what we learned from the game’s GDC 2012 reveal. We’ll see more of the HBO-partered effort at San Diego Comic Con, which runs […]

• Universal Monsters Online MOBA now accepting closed beta applications

  Back in 2010, SEE Virtual Worlds announced an MMO where players can run amok as monsters such as the mummy, Frankenstein’s monster, the wolf-man, etc. But BigPoint has one in the works as well called Universal Monsters Online, which is based on – you guessed it – classic monsters from the various movies produced by […]

• Battlestar Galactica Online turns one, approaches 10 million players

  Bigpoint is pleased as punch with Battlestar Galactica Online, and to celebrate the MMO’s birthday, has a number of pressies on offer.

• Square Enix, Bigpoint team up for unannounced project

  Square Enix has announced its teamed with Bigpoint to release a new, unannounced title from the publisher to the latter’s games portal. The effort, which is “”already well into development,” will be social-focussed and feature heavily on UGC. The game is expected to be detailed in the next few weeks, with a release due within […]

• A Game of Thrones MMO makes its GDC debut

  BigPoint and Artplant provided an overview of the browser-based, free-to-play MMO A Game of Thrones at GDC this week and IGN was lucky enough to attend the chat and dish on the details.

• Bigpoint to show A Game of Thrones MMO at GDC next week

  Bigpoint has announced it will provide a first look at its browser-based MMO for A Game of Thrones during GDC next week.

• Bigpoint tots up 250 million players

  Bigpoint has passed a significant milestone across its catalogue of free to play titles.

• Report: Bigpoint nets €2 million from one in-game item in DarkOrbit MMO

  Bigpoint has made over €2 million this month on an in-game item purchase in the company’s free-to-play, browser-based space shooter MMO, DarkOrbit.

• Bigpoint interested in Star Trek: Infinite Space

  Battlestar Galactica Online publisher Bigpoint may rescue browser-based MMO Star Trek: Infinite Space from imminent shelving.

• Tuesday Shorts: Penny Arcade, UC3, King Arthur II, Teen brains on games

  Below you will find a list of newsworthy snippets for your brain, including information on: Uncharted 3 skins, a curfew for online gaming, an MMO about The Mummy, and more.

• Atlus to publish Game of Thrones RPG

  Atlus US has nabbed the publishing rights to Cyanide’s upcoming RPG based on George RR Martin’s fantasy epic, a Song of Ice and Fire – better known to recent fans by the name of its HBO adaptation, Game of Thrones.