Destiny company Bungie just keeps making other game studios look bad – now it’s axed mandatory arbitration
I have to be honest, I did not have "Bungie models good corporate behavior for the gaming industry" in my predictions for 2021, but...
Habbo Hotel developer Sulake enters the blockchain racket with the release of Habbo avatar NFTs
Like it or not, gaming and blockchain nonsense is only going to keep on keeping on, apparently. How do we know? Because Habbo Hotel...
Nexon announces plans to globally publish PC and mobile MMO Heroes of Incredible Tales 2
Do you remember a game known as Heroes of Incredible Tales? It was a mobile multiplayer ARPG from developer NAT Games that made its...
Regulators in China and the UK turn their eyes toward streaming, gaming currency
China isn't content to bulldoze its own local gaming industry by freezing game approvals, blocking kids from gaming outside of tiny windows, and freaking...
League of Legends’ animated series gets a November 6 release date on Netflix and a new trailer
At the beginning of May, League of Legends unveiled a teaser trailer for an animated series known as Arcane, which provided just a few...
VR MMO Zenith raises $10 million from investors, says ‘not much’ will change about development
We've been a little skeptical about the long-term prospects of Zenith, but the virtual reality MMORPG has a better chance today of making it...
The Daily Grind: So, are you playing New World on launch today?
I'd tell you not to plan on playing New World today, but... you're MMORPG players. You already know this advice, and you're probably also...
Activision-Blizzard says it’s settling with the EEOC, committing $18M to victims and charities
Last week, we covered the revelation that multiple federal agencies, including the US Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were...
Betawatch: Guild Wars 2 continues its End of Dragons beta events
It's been many long moons since Guild Wars 2 was really in beta, and if you were here when that happened... well, you're me....
Playable Worlds’ Raph Koster on why avatars traipsing across the metaverse are a major tech challenge
Virtual worlds... how the eff do they work? Playable Worlds' Raph Koster has an idea or two, and he's dishing them out in a...
TitanReach’s angel investor says he funded it because the team is ‘passionate, hard working, and lucky’
The latest weird chapter in the saga of TitanReach's development has been the game getting fully funded with no strings attached by a single...
Meet the Japanese esports team that’s composed of players age 66 to 73
If you think that the twitch motor control and quick thinking of esports play means that people of a certain age are out of...
Final Fantasy XIV is why Final Fantasy XI didn’t get a PlayStation 3 port
If you're wondering why you never got a version of Final Fantasy XI to play on the PlayStation 3 (back in the years when the...
Riot hires Witcher 3’s lead quest designer for its MMO, imposes stiffer AFK penalties in League of Legends
This news post is basically a grab bag of tidbits from Riot Games' projects. That's the lede. That's all the lede you're getting. I'm...
Playable Worlds’ lead QA engineer on the industry’s problematic ‘godlike status’ for devs
Playable Worlds, the outfit headed up by MMO designer Raph Koster and promising both a sandbox MMORPG and the metaverse, has a developer profile...
Fortnite might not be back on Apple’s app store for five years – or longer
You know how kids' soccer teams line up after a match to give each other high-fives and "good games" in a show of sportsmanship?...
Riders of Icarus has apparently sunsetted its only Russian server
Pour one out for Riders of Icarus aka Icarus Online, which apparently sunsetted its Russian server this week.
As MMO Fallout first reported, the game...
Activision-Blizzard is now being investigated by four state and federal regulators as its top legal VP departs
Yesterday, we covered the news that the US Securities and Exchange Commission is now investigating Activision-Blizzard in the wake of its ongoing sexual harassment...
The Daily Grind: Is Blizzard right to ‘desexualize’ art in World of Warcraft?
Last week, there was a big social media hubbub over World of Warcraft, as Blizzard quietly changed out a pair of obscure paintings in...
The feds are now investigating Activision-Blizzard as the SEC subpoenas execs including Bobby Kotick
Early on in our coverage of the Activision-Blizzard sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit scandal, we noted that the company's response took some ineffective swipes...
