For Science: Crit-Rate is another survey-driven attempt to match gamer personalities to games
I have to admit I almost deleted the press release for this story without reading it, but my finger twitched, and let me tell...
Wisdom of Nym: What will a new producer mean for Final Fantasy XI?
So we were pretty surprised yesterday when Square-Enix announced Akihiko Matsui would step away as the producer of Final Fantasy XI after a decade...
Final Fantasy XI producer Akihiko Matsui passes the torch to Yoji Fujito
After a decade of leading the team behind Final Fantasy XI, producer Akihiko Matsui announced today that he will be stepping down from his...
Antitrust lawsuit filed by gamers against Microsoft is tossed, but lawyers say they’ll resubmit
During the latter half of December, we reported on an antitrust lawsuit filed by gamers against Microsoft. The suit argued that Microsoft's buyout of...
Perfect Ten: A primer on 10 very basic MMO fight mechanics
When the first two humans decided to get into a fight, they were just pushing one another and telling the other person to quit...
Canadian court rules lockboxes aren’t illegal gambling, ‘deceptive acts’ suit continues
Back in October 2020, we reported on a class action lawsuit filed in Canada against EA that covered over 70 different titles that used...
CCP Games officially unveils plans for a new blockchain game set within the EVE Online universe
For many players, it was probably a matter of when EVE Online developer CCP Games would dip into the blockchain gaming space, not whether,...
Twitch lays off 400 workers following CEO’s resignation
If you thought that Emmett Shear, the former CEO of Twitch, resigning abruptly after 16 years last week to spend more time with his...
Square-Enix is still all-in on its NFT game, Symbiogenesis
Square-Enix has made no bones about its excitement to throw good money after bad on the pyre of NFT and crypto gaming, with its...
A Better ABK calls out Blizzard’s end of remote work as ‘wholly unnecessary’ and another union busting tactic
Back in February, Blizzard held a meeting that, among other things, confirmed a mandated return to office work and an end of remote work....
Twitch CEO and co-founder resigns to spend more time with his family
As Twitch continues to dominate the game streaming landscape, it's going to have to move forward without one of the figures that helped create...
Betawatch: Star Citizen’s alpha 3.18 has been quite a trainwreck
So Star Citizen launched patch 3.18 last weekend, and everything worked absolutely perfectly with no downsides, please don't check. But it's all right because...
Destiny 2 players mourn the death of Lance Reddick, longtime voice of Commander Zavala
Just a few nights ago, my husband and I were chatting about how good Lance Reddick sounded as Commander Zavala in Destiny 2's Lightfall....
Minecraft console dev studio argues buyout of Activision-Blizzard is ‘a natural evolution of the industry’
Responses to findings by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority to Microsoft's buyout of Activision-Blizzard are continuing to be revealed, following the paranoid scenarios...
Could an AI bot do a better job as a games company CEO than an actual human?
That headline's not an idle question: Chinese gaming company NetDragon decided to give it a try. Last August, NetDragon, which runs multiple MMOs including...
Final Fantasy XIV examines how its project managers work on the game behind the scenes
If you're not familiar with what project managers do, you might not understand why Final Fantasy XIV needs them or what they're doing on...
A Counter-Strike player shelled out six figures for an AK-47 skin because it had flowers and stickers on it
The worth of digital items can very often be attributed to personal preference no matter how much crypto-hawking gremlins would like you to believe...
Palia’s team has doubled in less than two years as 600K players sign up to test it
Cozy MMO Palia is tooting its very cozy horn over its huge sign-up rate and the doubling of its team since its announcement in...
The Riot MMO marches onward, Riot says, following Ghostcrawler’s departure
On this week's MOP Podcast, Justin wondered aloud whether Riot Games itself had addressed the departure of Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street from his role leading...
Ex-Blizzard execs Jen Oneal, J Allen Brack, and John Donham form Magic Soup Games
Now here's an interesting collab. Yes, it's yet another "ex-Blizzard people form a new studio and investors give them stacks of money" studio, but...
