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Nexon isn't the only Korean studio that has been targeted by the government and fined for dishonest practices with its online games and lockboxes. The...

Last month, as part of our ongoing dialogue about video games and violence, we covered a brand-new paper that found that playing video games...

Are studios starting to wake up and take action against particularly odious instances of gaming toxicity in their products? Blizzard, at least, is working...

You'd hardly expect an MMO company to send along a press release declaring its game a failure, right? Indeed, Trion's PR this morning argues...

Last week, we wrote about the de facto maintenance-moding of LawBreakers, as Boss Key admitted the game wasn't making money, not even enough to...

This week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained continues inching along toward its planned summer beta. According to the game's latest update, CSE is running internal...

With the launch of Ultima Online's Endless Journey free-to-play conversion this week, a whole lotta old-school MMORPG players are turning their attention back to...

If you've ever been frustrated over online games refusing to disclose the odds of winning anything in lockboxes, then get ready to do a...

Let the battle royale lawsuits begin! TorrentFreak caught wind of a new lawsuit in California that ought to set all the cloners on edge:...

With Summerset on the horizon, ZeniMax is shifting around just what goes into Elder Scrolls Online's base package, according to a dev post published...

Graphics and music aren't the only aspects of Black Desert that are getting an upgrade -- the team announced that it will be switching...

Everybody loves to dump on EA for wrecking companies like BioWare and escalating microtransactions and lockboxes to ludicrous heights, but is it warranted? Kotaku...

Long after players had tried and moved on from the gravity-defying Lawbreakers, its studio has conceded defeat. Boss Key Productions put out a statement today...

At 20 years old, Ultima Online is finally doing what its EA-backed handlers at Broadsword once said it would never do: It's going free-to-play. Game...

Among the more unusual business model setups for the incoming wave of indie MMORPGs is Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's. As we've previously covered,...

According to a report on Gamereactor, Ubisoft would like a piece o' that PUBG and Fortnite action. The publication claims to have an "anonymous source...

With ArcheAge's new progression fresh start server going live today, players are raising concerns that Trion Worlds has slipped in pay-to-win elements in its...

With April Fool's Day falling on a Sunday, Passover, and Easter, I didn't actually spend a lot of time on the internet watching the...

We hope you've cleared your schedules, Black Desert players, because it's Wednesday, and you know there's always something new to do in-game on Wednesdays....

As this year's GDC coverage is winding down, I am finally coming to the topic I saved for last: community. MMOs are more than just...