Betawatch: Anthem has begun to sing
It'd be nice to say that nothing in beta can stay there, but that would be a lie. There are lots of games that stay...
ZeniMax Media is hit with a trademark dispute over a filing for ‘Redfall’
What is "Redfall?" We don't know just yet, beyond the fact that it's a trademark filed by ZeniMax Media (the parent company of Bethesda...
SuperData January 2019: Digital gaming revenue is down across the board as Fortnite has ‘increasingly lumpy revenue profile’
Hey so can we just get a do-over on January and maybe February? No? Sigh. SuperData's released its January 2019 report, and surprising no...
Anthem is finally officially launched, to the tune of lukewarm reviews (plus the launch roadmap)
Anthem has finally, finally wound its way through all its early tests and early accesses and headstarts and other folderol to make it to...
Fortnite touts $100M prize pool for World Cup and 2019 esports, new 7.6M player concurrency record
Howsabout a slice of $100,000,000? That's the total prize pool for Fortnite's 2019 esports lineup, with a significant portion of that going to the World...
The Daily Grind: So how worried are you about Guild Wars 2?
Last night's devastating news that NCsoft was forcing Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet to make major layoffs definitely shook me, even more than the...
Massively Overthinking: Contending with the MMO genre’s ‘wowfugee’ crisis
Last week on the MOP Podcast, we read a letter from a listener named Megan who pointed us to a blog post on the The...
MMO industry veteran Bill Roper has departed SpatialOS company Improbable
If you've been around in MMOs a while, you surely know Bill Roper and his pedigree. He's a former Blizzard developer who went on to helm...
Now confirmed: Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet is suffering heavy layoffs, but the game will continue
Update: The layoffs have now been confirmed, and ArenaNet has now issued a statement. We're continuing to update this article at the end.
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Tencent introduces strict rules for streamers playing its games
Good news for Chinese streamers, as gaming giant Tencent has introduced a new set of rules about what streamers can and cannot do while...
China puts a freeze on new game approval (again)
You might recall that 2018 proved to be a mess for studios trying to get their new games approved for the always-lucrative Chinese market....
Dark and Light drops its price as it promises it’s moving toward a full release
Gosh, we really hope you didn't buy Dark and Light last week because the title's price has just been dropped to $17.99. The announcement of...
Leaderboard: How worried are you for PlanetSide Arena and Daybreak right now?
Daybreak's Friday-night revelation that it is delaying PlanetSide Arena to summer made me worried. Actually, the revelation that the company would be refunding everyone...
Darkfall Rise of Agon has officially soft-launched its hybrid free-to-play ‘freemium’ model
Remember back when free-to-play was still a pretty rare thing, and we used to run polls on which MMOs would go free-to-play next? And...
Epic Games yanks Fortnite ads from YouTube over super gross child exploitation expose
Welp, if there's anything that might finally convince Google to overhaul its horrible, awful, no-good YouTube video algorithms that somehow start you with puppy...
Valve is getting rid of Steam’s non-gaming video service because you probably didn’t know it existed
Sorry, Steam fans, but the platform's non-gaming video section is being retired. Yes, you will no longer be able to buy hit movies like...
Heroes of Newerth gets its final major patch on February 26
The last patch for Heroes of Newerth arrives next week, at which point the game's live support will be scaled back to nothing but essential...
LOTRO fan starts petition for Standing Stone to rehire a beloved world builder
Here's something you don't see every day. It's a fan petition, yes, but it's a fan petition for Standing Stone Games to offer the...
Kotaku exposes the creeps of game streaming, plus the update on Elvine you didn’t want
At the beginning of the month, we were all horrified to cover the news that a Twitch streamer and (now former) Hi-Rez employee, Thomas...
Fortnite’s rad new hoverboard mode goes live as Carlton’s dance copyright claim hits a snowdrift
New court documents show that the United States Copyright Office has ruled that Alfonso Ribeiro cannot copyright the dance that he popularized as Carlton...
