Star Wars The Old Republic plans next update for August 2, bids farewell to Creative Director Charles Boyd
It's a bit of good news and bad news for Star Wars: The Old Republic fans. We'll start with the good news: Update 7.1...
UK government will ‘consider legislation’ unless game companies add parental controls to lootboxes
The UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has seen enough evidence related to the harm that lootboxes have on children and...
Unity’s John Riccitiello apologizes for sentence he wishes he ‘never said’
A harsh judgment from Unity's CEO last week experienced a fair bit of pushback and criticism from gamers and other studios alike. John Riccitiello...
The Game Archaeologist: The origins of Blizzard, Mythic, Funcom, SOE, and BioWare
A good origin story always captivates me, especially when it gives me a new perspective on something I've come to appreciate over the years....
Lord of the Rings Online producer leaves Standing Stone Games after a little over a year
The Lord of the Rings Online community was shocked this weekend to learn that Oleg Brodskiy, more commonly known as "Raninia" on the site,...
Betawatch: At last, Dragonflight enters its alpha test
At long last, World of Warcraft players don't need to continue the testless nightmare that has been waiting for Dragonflight's alpha test because it...
Kakao Games invests in Korean studio Redlab Games to create a play-to-earn mobile MMO
Kakao Games is looking to dive deeper into the play-to-earn cesspool, it appears. The publisher has reportedly invested an undisclosed amount into Korean studio...
Destiny 2 celebrates summer as Bungie addresses healthcare, racial justice, and its acquisition by Sony
We're deep into the summertime here in the northern hemisphere, and Destiny 2 is preparing to mark the season by bringing back its Solstice...
Massively Overthinking: Are you a cheater in MMOs or other games?
We recently got a press release about a pair of studies on cheating, and I hesitated to run it as a news article because...
Old School RuneScape details the path of events that led to the creation of the Jagex Launcher
How often do you really think about the launcher for an MMO you're playing? We're going to guess that the answer is "not often"...
Conan Exiles deep-dives its planned battlepass monetization system
When Age of Sorcery launches for Conan Exiles players later this year, it will completely upend the game's monetization model by switching from a...
NFT MMO ArcheWorld plans testing of an AlphaPass and opens an ad sharing contest in Asian regions
We're once again reporting on ArcheWorld, the NFT-filled version of ArcheAge that was first announced in February 2022. The last report we did on...
Unity’s CEO says game devs who don’t include monetization in their design process are ‘f*cking idiots’
Not since Square-Enix president Yosuke Matsuda's notorious letter about pursuing NFTs has someone in the games industry so spectacularly lost the plot that we're...
Final Fantasy XIV makes plan for opening home world transfers while banning RMT accounts
If you want to transfer your home world in Final Fantasy XIV right now... well, you can't. This is not for no reason, either....
Unity unveils plans to merge with app monetization platform ironSource in a $4.4B deal
Unity, the engine that powers a wide number of MMORPGs as well as other games, is hoping to improve its fiscal fortunes through a...
Daybreak Games files a new trademark for something called Myths and Monoliths
Fashion your fanciest tinfoil hats and put on your spectacles of assumption because we've got some trademark filing news to chew on. Daybreak Games...
Final Fantasy XIV takes a look behind the scenes at the tasks of the localization team
It can be easy at times to forget that Final Fantasy XIV is a multilingual title with day-and-date releases for every major patch -...
Riot Games’ League of Legends show garners two Emmy nods
Riot Games' first foray into the television sphere wasn't just a crowd-pleasing success -- it's proven to be a critical one as well. With...
EVE Online banned over 70K RMT and botting accounts over the course of 2021
CCP Games' battle with RMT and bot accounts in EVE Online is likely never going to end, but the devs that are part of...
Game dev flips a panel into an anti-crypto attack, earning applause from attendees and ire from NFT sponsors
Many folks may not have heard of Mark Venturelli, a designer for the turn-based strategy title Chroma Squad and founder of developers Critical Studio...
