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Among the controversy of EA's pay-to-win lockboxes in Star Wars Battlefront II emerges a rather reasonable question: Why didn't the studio create and use...

Destiny 2 may be fudging up left and right, but it still sold a truckton of copies. That's according to Superdata, whose most recent revenue...

Not everyone in the video game industry is shying away from lockboxes or denouncing them outright. Take-Two Interactive President Karl Slatoff took the side...

Fiercely independent and minimap-free Saga of Lucimia is publicly sticking to its guns in an attempt to fund and make this fantasy MMORPG, eschewing...

There's a bit of a kerfuffle over Guild Wars 2's new mount, which is a gorgeous peacock reskin of the raptor. ArenaNet has put...

It looks as though the rebels may have defeated the empire -- or at least struck a mighty blow to give the latter pause. CNBC...

If you've never played Clicker Heroes, you can pick it up for your phone or on Steam right now; it's a lightweight little idle...

Here's the thing that I love to point to whenever I talk about this portion of Secret World Legends: New England is really kind...

Don't be too mad at Star Wars: Battlefront II. It's a symptom of a problem, not the cause. I mean, be mad at people...

Late yesterday I read these words Google-translated from Belgian news site VTM: "The Minister of Justice wants to prohibit purchases in video games if...

Capping off the Great Star Wars Battlefront II Fiasco of November, Belgium's Gambling Commission and the Dutch Gaming Authority both began investigating lootboxes/lockboxes to determine whether...

KeyBanc Capital Markets financial analyst Evan Wingren, who surely makes more money than you do, wants you to know that he's a gamer too!...

It's a good time to pile on predatory cash-shop models, especially if you've got a better one, and in-development hardcore MMORPG sandbox Saga of Lucimia...

To put it simply, it has not been the best of weeks for Electronic Arts, DICE, or Star Wars Battlefront II. The publisher's decision to...

Earlier this week, we reported on a move by the Belgian Gaming Commission to investigate lockboxes/lootboxes in games like Star Wars Battlefront 2 to...

This week's Massively Overthinking topic is a submission from reader and commenter camelotcrusade, who takes the industry's current fight over monetization in a different...

Whenever you see a studio call fans "passionate," it's almost always shorthand for "rioting with pitchforks and torches." Guess what Star Wars Battlefront 2's...

Scroll back in your brain a decade to 2007, when Sparkplay announced it was building an MMORPG called Earth Eternal, a free-to-play, microtransaction-based MMO...

An extensive Twitter thread from former Star Wars: The Old Republic lead systems designer Damion Schubert grappled with the timely and touchy topic of lockboxes and microtransactions...

It's now been almost one year to the day that EVE Online officially got a limited free-to-play option, and it's certainly been a boon...