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Nexon dives further into NFT and blockchain games with MapleStory N and a MapleStory Universe ecosystem

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Readers might remember that Nexon's push into crypto has gone as one might expect, with $40M disappearing into the void in 2021 and continued...

NCsoft hypes up its visual and AI engine tech in a trailer for narrative title Project M

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Our coverage of a trailer for a single-player game might seem like we've lost the plot on paper, but this is less about the...
Not a great sign.

Activision-Blizzard’s diversity and inclusion goals are out of sync with its corporate action

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Activision-Blizzard has released a full-year review of its diversity, equity, and inclusion stats for 2022 this week, and the first thing readers will notice...
This is garbage.

Vague Patch Notes: The objective truth of ‘objectivity’ in games journalism

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All right, folks, real talk: Originally there was going to be a much more sober and depressing column this week, but then this week...

Massively Overthinking: The times MMO developers admitted they were… wrong

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Earlier in March, Jagex did the unthinkable for an MMORPG company: It admitted it was wrong about something. If you're used to the Blizzards...
You are bad and you should feel bad.

FTC finalizes fine for Fortnite’s dark patterns as Epic talks up NFT ‘games’ on EGS

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Usually when people says things are going "pretty well," your first sympathetic instinct is to ask about what might be troubling them; those words...

For Science: Crit-Rate is another survey-driven attempt to match gamer personalities to games

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I have to admit I almost deleted the press release for this story without reading it, but my finger twitched, and let me tell...
Finding even a halfway decent screenshot of this game is a mathematical impossibility, I swear.

Wisdom of Nym: What will a new producer mean for Final Fantasy XI?

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So we were pretty surprised yesterday when Square-Enix announced Akihiko Matsui would step away as the producer of Final Fantasy XI after a decade...
Do you hear what I hear?

Final Fantasy XI producer Akihiko Matsui passes the torch to Yoji Fujito

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After a decade of leading the team behind Final Fantasy XI, producer Akihiko Matsui announced today that he will be stepping down from his...
Popcorn appropriately.

Antitrust lawsuit filed by gamers against Microsoft is tossed, but lawyers say they’ll resubmit

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During the latter half of December, we reported on an antitrust lawsuit filed by gamers against Microsoft. The suit argued that Microsoft's buyout of...
Hey-nonny-nonny

Perfect Ten: A primer on 10 very basic MMO fight mechanics

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When the first two humans decided to get into a fight, they were just pushing one another and telling the other person to quit...

Canadian court rules lockboxes aren’t illegal gambling, ‘deceptive acts’ suit continues

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Back in October 2020, we reported on a class action lawsuit filed in Canada against EA that covered over 70 different titles that used...

CCP Games officially unveils plans for a new blockchain game set within the EVE Online universe

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For many players, it was probably a matter of when EVE Online developer CCP Games would dip into the blockchain gaming space, not whether,...

Twitch lays off 400 workers following CEO’s resignation

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If you thought that Emmett Shear, the former CEO of Twitch, resigning abruptly after 16 years last week to spend more time with his...

Square-Enix is still all-in on its NFT game, Symbiogenesis

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Square-Enix has made no bones about its excitement to throw good money after bad on the pyre of NFT and crypto gaming, with its...
Among all the many, many ways you are terrible.

A Better ABK calls out Blizzard’s end of remote work as ‘wholly unnecessary’ and another union busting tactic

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Back in February, Blizzard held a meeting that, among other things, confirmed a mandated return to office work and an end of remote work....

Twitch CEO and co-founder resigns to spend more time with his family

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As Twitch continues to dominate the game streaming landscape, it's going to have to move forward without one of the figures that helped create...
AND NOW - I DIE!

Betawatch: Star Citizen’s alpha 3.18 has been quite a trainwreck

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So Star Citizen launched patch 3.18 last weekend, and everything worked absolutely perfectly with no downsides, please don't check. But it's all right because...

Destiny 2 players mourn the death of Lance Reddick, longtime voice of Commander Zavala

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Just a few nights ago, my husband and I were chatting about how good Lance Reddick sounded as Commander Zavala in Destiny 2's Lightfall....
Massively Minecraft

Minecraft console dev studio argues buyout of Activision-Blizzard is ‘a natural evolution of the industry’

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Responses to findings by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority to Microsoft's buyout of Activision-Blizzard are continuing to be revealed, following the paranoid scenarios...

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