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MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Starship Traders, Arena Breakout, X8, Jumanji, The Grey War

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Welcome back to another rundown of some MMOs and other multiplayer titles you've probably never heard of! Starship Traders - MMO Fallout put this one...

Overwatch 2 hopes to ‘move forward’ after Steam review-bombing and Invasion update

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It's likely been challenging to be Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller: The hero shooter is still being absolutely browbeaten on Steam, with negative player...

Massively Overthinking: What’s the best way a studio can save a struggling mid-size MMO?

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Temtem's Crema Games raised eyebrows earlier this week when it admitted that in spite of Temtem's successful launch, the game is having trouble; the...
Yay, a thing we didn't want.

Activision Blizzard is laying off workers in its esports division amidst future uncertainty regarding Overwatch League

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Amidst all the other signs of robust health that you can see written across the state of Overwatch 2, you can add the Overwatch...

Temtem Showdown is a free-to-play standalone game that gets you right into critter team PvP battling

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What if you could play Temtem but wholesale ignore all of the story questing and creature capturing and MMORPG social elements in order to...

Valve is eliminating Dota 2 battle passes because almost nobody was buying them

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A common refrain that's used to fight against unwanted monetization is "speak with your wallet" - ie don't buy a thing you dislike. That...

Riot Games and pro League of Legends esports players reach compromise to end strike

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At the end of May, we covered a disturbance in the Riot Games League of Legends esports community: Riot had slashed the North American...

Genshin Impact plans esports invitational centered around the Genius Invokation TCG

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Genshin Impact and esports isn't exactly a pairing one would consider from the outside looking in, particularly since the title's primary gameplay loop is...

Activision-Blizzard offers (some) hard numbers on its harassment and discrimination problem

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Within the Variety puff piece on Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick earlier this week, Kotick insisted that the volumes of harassment accusations against the company...
Well well well, how the turntable.

Riot Games and League of Legends esports pros lock horns over fate of North American league

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Following Riot Games' announcement of its plan to reduce the North American Challenger's League for League of Legends esports down to only seven teams...

The MOP Up: Magic the Gathering Arena jumps the gun on Steam

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While we were all led to believe that Magic the Gathering Arena was coming to Steam this fall -- mostly because investors were told...

The MOP Up: World War II Online focuses on rebuilding squads

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"Squads" are the watchword of World War II Online as of late, with Cornered Rats pouring more effort into bolstering this group makeup in...
Oh, this one.

Interview: Spellcraft’s game director on the first public alpha and its intense gameplay

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A good weekend is in store for anyone who loves to play the latest, hottest, fresh-off-the-press-est multiplayer games the moment they pop up. That's...

US Department of Justice and Activision-Blizzard reach a settlement over an esports salary lawsuit

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It would apparently not be enough for Activision-Blizzard to treat its employees poorly; it also has been found to treat those who compete in...

ARK’s Survival of the Fittest battle royale mode finally arrives to console players

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Studio Wildcard seems to be of the mindset that everything is better with dinosaurs. That's the only conclusion we can draw when it created...
Yeah, we're getting into the stones here.

World of Warcraft’s 2023 Mythic Dungeon International esports event begins this weekend with Dragonflight dungeons in tow

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It's part speedrunning, part esports event, and all World of Warcraft dungeons. It's the 2023 season of the Mythic Dungeon International, which is set...
aw hell

Vague Patch Notes: The three kinds of sunset in the MMO space

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Not all sunsets are the same, no matter how much you may like a given game. This is one of the things that tends...
It's all the money we don't have!

The Soapbox: Subscriptions might actually be the next big innovation in digital card games

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What started earlier this week as a rant on how bad an idea a subscription model in Hearthstone would be evolved into something more:...
Nothing else has worked.

WoW Factor: Brian Birmingham’s ousting and the ever-deepening rot at Blizzard

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Talking about this company is always so exhausting, but let's do a quick recap: Brian Birmingham was, up until recently, one of the top...

Blizzard polls players about a Hearthstone sub as it scales back esports

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We begin this article by noting right up front that Blizzard is terribly fond of floating bad ideas in surveys and then saying, Ha...

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