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At this point we'd like to believe that the vast majority of our readers are assured that cryptocurrency games, metaverses, and NFTs are all...

We're into day six of The Day Before drama, which certainly doesn't embroil any of you, as our readers were too clever to buy...

As most longtime MMO players know, leaders going AFK for extended periods can result in all kinds of shenanigans in player organizations behind their...

EVE Online is a game that will certainly go down in MMO history as one of the most fascinating studies on human behavior to...

Most of our regular readers know Axie Infinity as the game that saw a North Korean hacker gang get away with a huge stash...

Remember when having Habbo Hotel owner Sulake selling off Habbo-based NFTs seemed just like it was pointlessly destructive grifting from an isolated unscrupulous developer? Good times....

It's GDC again, guys, and it's... woof, a rough-looking year. While we had some really interesting panels during COVID, the first in-person event (which...

Just ahead of the weekend, we covered the news that TitanReach, an indie MMO that had taken significant sums of money from players and...

Raise your hand along with us if you saw this one coming: Indie MMO TitanReach has apparently ceased operation just half a year after...

It wouldn't have been long ago that my personal answer to this question would have been a flat and unambiguous "no" because even when...

Not quite a year ago, Gameforge sunsetted the western version of SoulWorker, and the game reverted back to the game's original Korean developer, Lion...

This is going to be a little more ranty than usual. Apologies for that in advance, but... well, we're talking about NFTs. NFTs are...

Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Business business business... is this working? Discord: Well, Discord's gone and ticked off its...

As long as there have been MMOs, there have been MMO scams. If you play, then you know. So you're not going to be...

A couple of weeks back, we covered the impending Kickstarter funding of Dreamworld, a game by a couple of MMORPG industry novices promising the...

There are two apparent truisms about scams in the MMO marketplace. The first is that players are quick to call anything that vaguely stinks...

MMO players aren't the only people who get scammed by games that sound too good to be true. Kotaku has a piece up this...

You might think, given the public outcry against digital video game lockboxes over the last year and the slow-moving but serious oversight crackdown currently...

So, MMO players. Are you tired of hearing about lockboxes and gambleboxes? It feels like we've been complaining about them for like six or...

Of all the headlines to come out of EVE Online over the years, the biggest and most far-reaching have been the stories of massive thefts...