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It's been a tumultuous couple of days in the Guild Wars 2 community following the announcement of the Icebrood Saga - saga, not season,...

It was just a matter of time before the apology came out - we all know how this script goes. Yesterday we covered the weekend...

It's nearly impossible to be a gamer in 2019 and not be at least familiar with Discord, the ubiquitous chat program that's replaced, in...

Welcome back to another mish-mash roundup of MMO-business-related happenings that just don't fit in anywhere else. To wit: On game gambling: Remember the bizarrely bad...

"Multiplayer medieval slasher" Mordhau worked its way through the news cycle this spring and summer, first for its dazzling Steam launch and then for...

File this one under are you even kidding me right now: A whole bunch of griefers just got banned from Rainbow Six Siege for...

As I noted when I first took over the Not So Massively column this past spring, we live in a time of great change...

Yesterday, PC Gamer posted a positively scathing article about Mordhau, the online knights-and-castles action ARPG. While the overall article is about the game's (and...

Jean-Paul Sartre's play "No Exit" provided us with the phrase "Hell is other people," and if you've dared to leave your mic or chat...

In March of last year, a whole truckton of video game companies announced the formation of what they called the Fair Play Alliance, a...

What should have been a fun Memorial Day weekend in Paragon City turned into nightmares for some members of the City of Heroes rogue...

While the gaming world is busy punking each other with goofy stunts and pranks, /r/games has shut its doors. Don't worry, internet trolls; it's...

It turns out that when you reward players for being decent human beings in Overwatch, there's incentive for people to continue being decent human beings....

MMO Culture has an interesting translated bit from the NetEase conference call last week that homes in on Diablo Immortal, the game that was...

You might be a pirate in Sea of Thieves, but that doesn't excuse any dastardly behavior shown to other players. According to this week's...

One of the memes I see repeated a lot when folks are waxing nostalgic about the old days of MMOs is this idea that...

Herein lies the problem for Valve running Dota 2: The company doesn't want to actually provide any rules or guidelines or moderation for the game's...

We're not sure whether to bin this as a good story or a bad - a little of both maybe. Multiple Fallout 76 players...

The folks at Riot Games have brought down the hammer on numerous professional League of Legends players, issuing fines to four players and formal...

Last night's bombshell that Bless Online is closing down its final Korean servers, leaving the game's Steam version in the west as the only...