Bungie faces copyright infringement lawsuit from an author over Destiny 2’s Red War story beats
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
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
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
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
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
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
While Star Citizen is making sure it keeps excitement up for CitizenCon 2024, behind the scenes the devs at CIG are being crunched to...
Vague Patch Notes: The dark side of meaningful MMO leveling
We've been in Leveling Month over here in Vague Patch Notes, and I had intended for this particular column to close off that discussion...
Epic Games claims to be ‘financially sound’ with new concurrency records for Fortnite and EGS
If anyone was harboring a concern for the financial health of Epic Games, then let the soothing words of some of the company's execs...
Palworld is getting a mobile version thanks to Krafton partnership as server FPS improves with latest patch
Krafton really likes to release mobile versions of games that are facing a lawsuit, apparently. The company announced today that it has secured a...
Nexon America lays off an unspecified ‘small number’ of employees as part of a ‘hyperlocalization’ strategy
It's hard to know exactly how many a "small number of employees" is when layoffs are announced by a massive company, but in any...
Google’s Waze app adds World of Warcraft’s Thrall voice for road navigation
This news story really took me back to the first few years I had a smartphone: Before I even worked for OG Massively, I...
Hi-Rez hit with layoffs as it reduces teams on Paladins and Classic SMITE in favor of SMITE 2
Hi-Rez Studios and its sub-studios are embarking on a wave of layoffs, CEO Stewart Chisam announced bright and early this morning. Chisam characterizes the...
Prices and probabilities for Once Human’s latest lockbox ‘event’ prompt calls for a player boycott
Last week saw survival shooter Once Human put forth its latest update, which Starry Studio said was chiefly focused on the addition of a...
Microsoft’s latest game division layoffs affect nearly 400 Activision-Blizzard employees
The second week of September brought more bad news for game workers in Microsoft, as the company confirmed another 650 layoffs were coming that...
Make My MMO: My Time at Evershine zooms past 1.2 million dollars on Kickstarter
Cozy multiplayer title My Time at Evershine joins our crowdfunding list in this week's edition of Make My MMO - triumphantly, even, as the...
StarCraft is reportedly getting a shooter, Hearthstone has a new patch, Overwatch 2 shares anime outfits
Some people don't like it when their food touches on a plate. Others don't care. And others stack food servings on top of one...
Jason Schreier’s new book blames Activision – and the Titan MMO’s cancelation – for Blizzard’s degradation
When Blizzard president Mike Morhaime announced he was stepping down from his 27-year-run at the company back in 2018, he didn't give much of...
The Day Before studio Fntastic is back on Kickstarter to try to fund a multiplayer obstacle course platformer
Most gamers in our sphere are very familiar with the meteoric crash of The Day Before, a survival shooter MMO from developer Fntastic that...
Throne & Liberty saw over 50K concurrent players last night – and it’s only going up from there
Yesterday, we asked our readers whether they were gunning to play Throne and Liberty, and almost two-thirds of those who responded said they were...
