Roblox Corp denies short-seller’s report that it lies to investors and hosts ‘a pedophile hellscape’
The dark clouds that hang over Roblox have been well-documented by us for quite some time, but now there's a damning new report from...
Apex Legends gets transparent about drop rates in response to a recent South Korean gaming law amendment
It's a generally widely understood assumption that items are made rare purely because the drop rate numbers are fudged by game studios, but players...
Tarisland lays out its philosophy for seasons ahead of Blight Dragon Elegy
With Tarisland's Blight Dragon Elegy launching later in October (no, we still don't know which day, bizarrely), Tencent is deep-diving what players can expect...
Perfect Ten: The complete list of CCP’s weird EVE Online projects and offshoots
CCP Games, like some other studios we could mention, seems to be a place where the team got one very successful MMO off the...
Embracer-owned Cryptic Studios will suffer devastating layoffs at the end of October
We've been keeping a very worried eye on Cryptic Studios for the last year or so, ever since it became clear that the floundering...
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...
