New World, Day 4: New servers, long queues, transfers next week, and Jeff Bezos weighs in
Raph Koster says nobody wants a metaverse with ‘Fairyland butting up against World War II’
Interview: Cryptic untangles Neverwinter’s new battle pass experiment
Here’s Blizzard’s rationale for changing some of World of Warcraft’s emotes, art, and names
Elder Scrolls Online’s Deadlands DLC launches November 1 on PC, hits 19M players
New World stops people from rolling on full servers, posts capacity list, and hits 800K concurrent
MMO Week in Review: New World reaches 913K concurrent players and queuers
New World is finally implementing detection for ‘bad-faith AFK players’
China adds new rules against games with ‘effeminate males’ and ‘blurred moral boundaries’
MechWarrior Online restores trans-focused team names after uproar over name changes and suspensions
Twitch suffers massive data breach as a hacker gets away with source code and streamer payout details
Guild Wars 2 teases End of Dragons’ lush Shing Jea zone in new trailer
WoW Classic begins testing fresh start servers as Blizzard yanks iffy joke and flirt soundbites
Guild Wars 2’s PvP community is aflame over win-trading [Update: ANet banned 83 perps]
New World Day 11: EAC errors, burnout, mass-reporting, and PvP imbalance
California’s DFEH files an objection to the settlement between Activision-Blizzard and the EEOC
Another War Thunder player leaked classified military documents to win a forum argument
New World delays server transfers to fix ‘edge case’ problems – here’s how they’ll work
Elder Scrolls Online’s creative director says New World’s success will ‘shake things up’ and ‘get the creative juices flowing’
Diablo II Resurrected is still suffering from major outages several weeks after launch
Kickstarted tiny MMO Book of Travels has officially launched into early access
Two government agencies are now squabbling over ethics allegations in Activision-Blizzard cases
EverQuest’s 28th expansion, Terror of Luclin, is open for preorders, and it looks epic
World of Warcraft tweaks another NPC name and more dialogue to reduce transphobia, racism, and sexism
Former UK Star Citizen player outlines the steps he took to get a refund from CIG
Embers Adrift just opened $50 preorders with access to this weekend’s alpha and beyond
Valve appears to be banning titles with NFT and crypto trading from Steam
Lord of the Rings Online’s revamped legendary item system is a hot mess
New World delays server transfers again to avoid disrupting weekend play
Paladins art director responds to anti-anthro character skin petition by making another anthro skin called Salt
Star Citizen financial report outlines over £1M in paid dividends to investors as of last year
World of Warcraft continues to clean up its act with surgical replacements to characters and quests
As Steam heads off blockchain games, the Epic Games Store welcomes them
World of Warcraft players grumble over Blizzard leader’s participation in boosting culture
New World’s server transfers finally begin tomorrow if initial tests go well
Activision-Blizzard requests venue change and pause in DFEH lawsuit, says it’s fired 20 people for misconduct
Krafton’s Elyon officially launches in the west today, F2P under Kakao’s banners
New World’s faction PvP is rife with guild drama over ‘throwing’
New World halts transfers, warns gold dupe exploiters as players call for a rollback
Path of Exile’s Scourge expansion is officially launching this afternoon
Overwatch’s McCree becomes Cole Cassidy on October 26
Legends of Aria announces ‘Aria 2.0’ successor with a new game engine
LOTRO Legendarium: Maximizing your character’s first 20 levels in Lord of the Rings Online
Epic Games retracts a policy that granted extra days off to employees
What we learned from Guild Wars 2’s Specter, Untamed, and Mechanist elite specs stream
Path of Exile’s Scourge launch sees concurrency numbers near its all-time highest point
Fallen Earth Classic is definitely happening, soon, and it’ll be free-to-play to boot
Ubisoft devs continue to report harassment and mismanagement in spite of corporate claims
Blizzard has now fully canceled BlizzConline, originally slated for early 2022
Everything people are grumpy about in New World, one month in
The Division 2 pushes back its next content update to February 2022 for quality control purposes
World of Warcraft quietly removed all of its Torghast 9.0 questline with patch 9.1.0
Activision-Blizzard partly meets some worker demands, dramatically cuts Bobby Kotick’s compensation
Blizzard fully assimilates Diablo II: Resurrected’s Vicarious Visions
Fallen Earth’s servers are finally back online after two years – Fallen Earth Classic is live
Diablo Immortal launches closed beta today as Blizzard’s pre-investor call infodump continues
Halloween fun across the MMORPG genre, 2021 edition
World of Warcraft, lacking any sense of shame, releases a new cash shop mount
New World is suffering from yet another exploit, this one revolving around malicious chat code
