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Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42

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The news that Star Citizen studio CIG forced developers to give up two weekends in order to make CitizenCon happen - followed by a...

SAG-AFTRA union agrees to resume negotiations with game companies, but strikes and picketing continue

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Video game voice over artists who are members of the SAG-AFTRA union have been on strike against game companies since July as game studios...
Lots of people, sure, why not.

So apparently the PlanetSide IP’s new owner is a private equity firm named Astrapto Capital

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Let me provide some context for this post: At the top of 2024, Enad Global 7, which owns Daybreak and whose top execs came...

Three-year-old New World is labeling new non-Aeternum PC player reviews as ‘pre-release’

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Amazon's MMORPG New World launched back in 2021 with almost a million concurrent players on PC through Steam. I was there. You were there....

New World Aeternum, still an MMORPG but now on console, has officially launched

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This it it folks: The Europe and Oceania New World servers opened up in the wee hours of this morning, and now at 9...

Microsoft is sunsetting multiplayer functionality for Age of Empires 3’s classic version

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So we have some good news and some bad news about multiplayer RTS Age of Empires 3. Let's do the bad news first: It's...
surfing something.

Star Trek Online ends grandfathered subscriptions – in exchange for free lifetime memberships

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As if the news of Cryptic's mass layoffs and de facto demise this week wasn't news enough, now Star Trek Online's new caretakers appear...

Class action complaint alleges Ubisoft unlawfully shares personal information with Facebook

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By now we're all pretty familiar with the option to log in to alternate platforms and websites through accounts like Google, Steam, and Facebook,...

Roblox Corp denies short-seller’s report that it lies to investors and hosts ‘a pedophile hellscape’

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The dark clouds that hang over Roblox have been well-documented by us for quite some time, but now there's a damning new report from...
I blew things up!

Apex Legends gets transparent about drop rates in response to a recent South Korean gaming law amendment

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It's a generally widely understood assumption that items are made rare purely because the drop rate numbers are fudged by game studios, but players...

Tarisland lays out its philosophy for seasons ahead of Blight Dragon Elegy

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With Tarisland's Blight Dragon Elegy launching later in October (no, we still don't know which day, bizarrely), Tencent is deep-diving what players can expect...
boosh

Perfect Ten: The complete list of CCP’s weird EVE Online projects and offshoots

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CCP Games, like some other studios we could mention, seems to be a place where the team got one very successful MMO off the...
Space boats.

Embracer-owned Cryptic Studios will suffer devastating layoffs at the end of October

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We've been keeping a very worried eye on Cryptic Studios for the last year or so, ever since it became clear that the floundering...

Bungie faces copyright infringement lawsuit from an author over Destiny 2’s Red War story beats

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It's been a long time since Destiny 2's launch, so it might have been easy to forget the Red War and some of its...

Throne & Liberty counts 3M players in its first week as Amazon has now added 55 extra servers

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The MMORPG community may be confused over the burgeoning Steam counts and mixed reviews for Throne and Liberty, but somebody is thrilled with the...

Nigel Lambert, the voice of Wizard101’s Merle Ambrose, has passed away at 80

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A moment of silence is rippling across Wizard101's Spiral as one of the most famous voices in the game recently passed away at the...

Ubisoft ponders a buyout by Tencent and Guillemot family’s company after second quarter stumbles

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It's become clear now that the Star Wars and Assassin's Creed IPs are not as ironclad as they once were for Ubisoft: Following a...

343 Industries rebrands to Halo Studios for ‘new games’ and UE5 switch

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What's in a name? Well if you ask Halo fans and mention the name of 343 Industries, you might get a curled lip in...

Game dev accuses Fntastic of asset flipping to create its upcoming co-op platformer Escape Factory

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At the end of September, we reported on the return of The Day Before developer Fntastic to game dev and Kickstarter with its debut...

Star Citizen devs are being forced into mandatory unpaid overtime in order to make CitizenCon happen

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While Star Citizen is making sure it keeps excitement up for CitizenCon 2024, behind the scenes the devs at CIG are being crunched to...