Vague Patch Notes: Being there or getting there in MMORPGs
Here's an interesting fact to consider: It took me ages to hit the level cap in Final Fantasy XI. Absolute ages. And no, it's...
Sony legal docs suggest hypothetical ways Microsoft could hurt Call of Duty on PlayStation consoles
There are plenty of tinfoil-y ways that people can paint Microsoft as a mustache-twirling villain, but those can be mostly associated with Redditor ramblings...
Final Fantasy XIV and Puma are collaborating for a new line of shoes, shirts, and pants
You might not think that Final Fantasy XIV wants to be Destiny 2, since the two games play differently and are made by different...
Perfect Ten: 10 franchises that deserve another shot at an MMO
Some experiments are attempted once and fail, and it's not hard to figure out why that didn't work. We don't really need to take...
Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street leaves Riot – and the Runeterra MMO he was spearheading
Greg Street aka Ghostcrawler, formerly of Blizzard and World of Warcraft fame and lately of Riot Games, has apparently decided to leave Riot -...
Austrian court finds FIFA lockboxes violate the country’s gambling laws, orders Sony to issue refunds
The question of whether the lockboxes in the recent run of FIFA soccer titles constitute gambling has been one that many nations around the...
Riot Games alums form The Believer Company, putting $55M investment to work on possible MMO
The parade of new studios formed from major gaming industry players and backed by serious venture capital investor cash continues today with the formal...
Square-Enix is relocating its Japanese offices to Shibuya in late 2024
In Neo: The World Ends With You, released in 2021, the plot centered around a neverending metaphysical competition in Tokyo's Shibuya district in the...
CCP Games laid off more than dozen staffers from its EVE Online and FPS studios
CCP Games has apparently laid off 13 workers from its studios: According to a statement from CCP Games' comms director George Kelion published on...
Congress is very disappointed in gaming’s response to extremism in games as the ESA downplays the problem
In mid-December, members of the US Congress sent signed letters to major game companies about what they're doing to combat the rise of online...
Lawful Neutral: What MMO gamers need to know about Section 230
You might have seen something in the news last week about a thing called Section 230 and lots of panic over the "end of...
The FTC grants Microsoft’s request for Sony docs as leaks say the EU will approve ABK merger
Remember back when Sony accused Microsoft of "harassment" for requesting internal documents from Sony that would aid Microsoft in defending its Activision-Blizzard merger before...
Following another weak quarter, Square-Enix will replace Yosuke Matsuda as president
Yosuke Matsuda is finally on his way out of Square-Enix: The company's Board of Directors announced early this morning that Matsuda will step down...
CWA files charges against Activision-Blizzard over latest unionbusting efforts
Activision-Blizzard's unionbusting reputation precedes it, I'm afraid, as the company has been playing a very public whackamole game with its burgeoning workers' movements over...
EA lays off hundreds of Apex Legends QA testers
Over 200 quality assurance testers for Apex Legends were abruptly fired by Electronic Arts this week, Kotaku reports. The pink slips were handed out...
Bless Global is back again, this time on mobile and Steam as a shambling blockchain horror
I'm sorry to report this morning that Bless is back and at it again.
Oh, that sounds cruel if you don't know the history, so...
Avalon is the latest blockchain metaverse project from old-school MMO devs
I know, I know, another one of these metaverse-blockchain-Web3 startups, but this one is one that MMORPG fans will want to at least take...
Check out these behind-the-scenes documents about the design of Infinite Crisis
As you no doubt know, Infinite Crisis is long gone. It's so gone that we recently ran a piece walking through the game's development,...
World of Warcraft level designer issues second printing of tell-all development tome
Back in 2018, we reported on a Kickstarted coffeetable book written by World of Warcraft's first 3-D level designer, John Staats. The published work...
Tencent’s survival shooter Undawn opens closed beta signups for April test round
Almost two years ago, Tencent's Lightspeed & Quantum announced Undawn, a UE4 post-apoc multiplayer open-world survival game, which promised everything from PvE and PvP...
