Riot Games on video game anti-cheat measures: ‘It’s a continual arms race’
Remember last year when folks lost their minds over Valorant's kernel-level anti-cheat? Well, it's here to stay, and moving forward it might be a...
Facebook commits to hiring 10,000 employees in the EU to build its metaverse
How many people does it take to build a metaverse? If you're Facebook, you have a pretty definitive number: 10,000. That's the amount of...
Malaysia’s mufti calls out lockboxes as gambling, states buying them is not permissible in Islamic religion
To appreciate this story, one has to first understand the concept behind a mufti and performing something that's against the religion of Islam. A...
Wisdom of Nym: Final thoughts in the wake of the Final Fantasy XIV media tour
It's so relaxing to finally be able to talk about the media tour. I've talked before about how Final Fantasy XIV lacks much in the...
Playable Worlds’ Raph Koster on gaming’s social design problems masquerading as technical challenges
In case you hadn't noticed, Playable Worlds' Raph Koster is basically handing out a free 101 course in how video games work in his...
As Steam heads off blockchain games, the Epic Games Store welcomes them
At this point in my life, I don't fully understand how cryptocurrency and NFTs work, but there's no shortage of explainers out there, and...
Star Citizen financial report outlines over £1M in paid dividends to investors as of last year
Since CIG is a UK company, the studio is required to share its fiscal filings, and so it has with the Star Citizen developer's...
Betawatch: Ghost Recon Frontline announces abrupt and indefinite beta delay
Remember Ghost Recon Frontline? The answer is either "no" or "yes, and I hate it," based around general reaction to Ubisoft's abruptly announced battle royale...
Valve appears to be banning titles with NFT and crypto trading from Steam
Saying that Valve and Steam have some problems is not a hot take. It is more of a lukewarm take, or if you want...
Blizzard pins Diablo II Resurrected’s server issues partly on 2001 netcode from the classic game
While Diablo and brothers never really had much trouble returning to Sanctuary over and over again, the heroes who seek to slay them (over...
Diablo III’s Wyatt Cheng claims the game’s tuning wasn’t based on the real-money auction house
Remember the Diablo III real-money auction house? Of course you do; that stuff is like horse armor or "you think you want it, but you...
Former ArenaNet boss Jeff Strain’s new gaming company is called Possibility Space
There's a new games studio in town: Possibility Space, led by veteran game executive Jeff Strain. Strain, of course, is best known to MMORPG...
Not So Massively Roundup: LoL’s chat test, Overwatch Halloween, and Fortnite acknowledges Among Us
Our not-particularly-massively-multiplayer news has started to pile up, which means it's time for a quick run-down of games in the MMORPG genre's orbit. We've...
MMO Business Roundup: China’s crackdown, the COVID bubble, MY.GAMES hires, and the Shatterline leak
Welcome back to another super fun roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
Remember how regulators in China have cracked down on youth gaming in...
Two government agencies are now squabbling over ethics allegations in Activision-Blizzard cases
The Activision-Blizzard sexual discrimination and harassment lawsuit is back in the news this week, but for an unexpected reason. Readers will recall that the...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Tatsuya Okahisa on technical art design and live-service MMOs
Do you know what a technical artist does in an MMO? If you responded by scrunching your face up and muttering "art... stuff?" that's...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most obscure MMO you’ve played?
You are probably aware of the fact at this point that we have an ongoing series of posts in which we ask whatever happened...
BitCraft confirms free-to-play monetization and promises to sell ‘Lamborghinis over Medals of Honor’
When BitCraft unveiled itself to the world last month, it was a generally vague yet intriguing reveal, promising a community-driven sandbox MMORPG that seems...
Elder Scrolls Online’s creative director says New World’s success will ‘shake things up’ and ‘get the creative juices flowing’
A rising tide raises all ships, and nowhere is that more true than in the MMO genre, as new games succeeding can often mean...
Betawatch: Book of Travels is rolling out access at long last
Book of Travels is not in launch just yet, but it's steadily moving toward its full early access launch on October 11th by letting...
