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Ubisoft promises a ‘structural shift’ in the wake of sexual harassment scandal
Ubisoft remains in the spotlight - the bad kind - this week following multiple accounts of abuse by multiple senior devs and execs that...
This week in why we can’t have nice things: Method, EA, and Ubisoft
The fallout from June's games industry abuse and assault call-outs continues.
Let's start with Method, the guild that's been driving World of Warcraft's competitive scene...
The latest gaming industry #metoo callouts impact Twitch, MMOs, MOBAs, and esports
The gaming industry is seeing a second wave - a second wave of the #metoo movement, that is. As we covered earlier this week,...
The Division 2 releases Title Update 10 but takes the season pass offline due to a bug
Title Update 10 for The Division 2 was released yesterday and it looks to have no shortage of things for players to check out....
One Shots: Reading rainbow
Last week we asked readers to share their favorite color in the form of a screenshot. But why pick one color when WildStar had...
The Game Archaeologist: Were sequels ever a good idea for MMOs?
From movies to books to video games, sequels (and all related spin-offs) are a common sight when a property is sufficiently successful enough. Even...
Gaming events and patches are delayed, games taken offline to support Black Lives Matter protests
The PC Gaming Show that was scheduled for Saturday has been postponed a week, PC Gamer announced last night. It'll run June 13th instead,...
Ubisoft claims its Trackmania reboot isn’t a sub game – you just pay for access
The community around Trackmania Nations is not terribly keen about the upcoming game's business model, since it appears to be set up that the...
Gaming companies from Blizzard to Daybreak stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter
Update: We've been updating the end of this piece with all the online gaming studio statements we can find this week.
Sony has apparently decided...
The MOP Up: Second Life’s super expensive brothel
It's not every week that my editor marches up to me and demands that I cover virtual brothels as headlining stories, but this did...
Division 2 datamining unearths new game mode, now confirmed by Ubisoft
The intention of a public test server is for the public to test things -- it's literally in the server's name. One Redditor, however,...
Amazon is hosting a game tech event for game devs tomorrow
Amazon Games' John Smedley appears to be pretty fired up about an event that Amazon Web Services is hosting. It's called The Digital Download,...
The Crew 2 previews the joy of collections with the upcoming Hobbies update
Do you like to have a fine collection of valuable automobiles in The Crew 2? The game's next major updates is all about hobbies, hence...
Ubisoft takes Google and Apple to court over an alleged Rainbow Six Siege mobile clone
Ubisoft is legally miffed at Google and Apple. After pleas to both companies to remove a mobile game that looks an awful lot like...
The Division 2’s update 9.1 makes NPCs just worse all around
Gosh, if the NPCs in The Division 2 were players... well, they wouldn't be NPCs at that point by definition, but they'd also be pretty...
MMO Business Roundup: Guerilla Collective, PlayStation Studios, XLGAMES’ new MMO, ChinaJoy, and NCsoft’s baseball team
Welcome back to another roundup of business stories relating to MMOs - or adjacent to them. Adjacentness!
Funcom: The Norwegian MMO company will be participating...
The Division 2 delays Title Update 9.1 by a few days
Every experienced Division agent knows that timing is crucial to the success of any operation -- and that sometimes that timing has to change...
Xbox X developers include Blizzard, Bungie, Pearl Abyss, and Square Enix
With the console still on track to release sometime during the holiday season later this year, the Xbox Series X is preparing a huge...
The Division 2 is balancing enemies and reanimating the dead in Update 9.1 on May 12
The Division 2 has put out another State of the Game livestream, and this one is all about the features of Update 9.1, which...
Bethesda donates a total of $1 million to COVID-19 relief efforts
While Bethesda, ZeniMax Media, and its other games studios are all about making games to keep people entertained and safe at home, the company...
