Xbox CEO tells workers gaming division job cuts ‘were painful choices’
As readers know by now, last week Microsoft cut 10,000 people from its payroll, many of whom were part of the Xbox gaming division...
Riot Games lays off 46 workers, adding to this month’s tech toll
Riot Games is the latest games industry megacorp to issue layoffs this week, though they're smaller in number than the thousands of workers shed...
Bored Ape Yacht Club’s upcoming ‘skill-based mint’ NFT game sparks a speculation market
While there are many of us normal humans who don't participate in a wildly speculative and volatile market powered by FOMO, art theft, environmental...
GDC’s State of the Games Industry survey once again demonstrates dev skepticism for metaverse and blockchain hokum
This year's State of the Game Industry from GDC - its 11th since beginning the project - delivers a range of insights from the...
Ubisoft’s CEO apologizes for responsibility dodge but fails to mollify strikers
Yesterday, we reported on the impending Ubisoft Paris worker strike and associated demands for better compensation and reduced work hours, provoked by CEO Yvrs...
Halo Infinite and Elder Scrolls Online teams were hit by Microsoft’s 10,000-person layoff
Yesterday's Microsoft layoffs were just as bad as anticipated - 10,000 jobs slashed in one day - and it gets worse for gamers, as...
NetEase slams Blizzard China’s last-minute WoW proposal as ‘brash, unseemly and commercially illogical’
Earlier this week, Blizzard China took to social media to suggest to Chinese World of Warcraft players that NetEase is to blame for the...
EU Parliament adopts resolution to regulate games industry harms from lockboxes to manipulative design
Call them lockboxes, lootboxes, gambleboxes, or gachapon: The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution "ensuring a safe online environment for online...
Ubisoft Paris will strike on January 27 following CEO’s responsibility-shifting
If Ubisoft thought that slashing more games, delaying others (like Skull & Bones), and promising "increased cautiousness over the coming years" would stave off...
Microsoft and Unity collectively shed over 10,000 employees in latest round of tech layoffs
Another round of layoffs are coming to both Microsoft and Unity. Both tech companies are dropping more employees from their respective workforces, with Unity...
Fractured should be back in February as Gamigo shrinks to just a quarter of its 2020 portfolio
Last month, Gamigo suffered a round of layoffs, axed multiple MMOs (dispatching them to other publishers), and stealth-deleted Fractured from its website - Fractured,...
Microsoft buyout faces pushback from the UK as Google and Nvidia express concerns about the deal to the FTC
The billion-dollar buyout of Activision-Blizzard from Microsoft was likely never going to be a smooth transaction, but we suspect all parties involved weren't expecting...
Lost Ark says it’s reversed false bans even as players report Steam accounts still flagged
Last week, Amazon took one hell of a banhammer to Lost Ark, smashing so many bots that players noticed the drop in concurrency and...
Blizzard claims NetEase rejected a license extension to keep Chinese games (including WoW) up another six months
When Blizzard and NetEase announced the dissolution of their long-running publishing partnership in China - and the sunset of almost all of Blizzard's games...
Stadia offers one last game to subscribers in the form of Worm Game
Before Google Stadia closes its doors for good, the service is offering its fans one final game to play for free. Lest you get...
Former Lord of the Rings Online producer illuminates the MMO industry’s pay problem
In last week's Massively Overthinking roundtable on the weird MMO trainwrecks that nobody noticed in 2022, MOP's Justin brought up one I had forgotten:...
Voice chat software dev Modulate partners with the ADL to improve its ToxMod tool and fight online hate
The topic of toxic and hateful online gaming communities has risen in the headlines in recent weeks, particularly as the matter earned governmental attention....
NetEase lays off staffers who were working on Blizzard games in China
Lest we forget, the falling out between NetEase and Blizzard has a toll greater than either company's bottom line; it also saw a human...
Final Fantasy XI takes a look at Michael-Christopher Koji Fox’s history
Fans of Final Fantasy XIV are familiar with Michael-Christopher Koji Fox as the head of translation and localization, a constant presence at fan festivals...
Lawful Neutral: Recapping 2022’s MMO and gaming law dramas
Fam, it's been a year. I know we've been saying that pretty much every year since 2016, but we'll stop saying it when it...
