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It’s been a fairly dark day for the video game industry today as three major companies have announcedlayoffs (opens in new tab)affecting dozens of people. First it was revealed that layoffs have hit EA’s PopCap casual gaming imprint with 50 employees reportedly (not official numbers yet) fired at the Seattle …

World of Warcraft launched eight years ago, and MMORPGs still don’t know what to do with themselves. It’s no longer enough to just clone WoW, if it ever was, and the genre’s massive shift toward a free-to-play revenue model has developers scrambling to reinvent yesterday’s premium games as sufficiently alluring …