Crowfall’s Gordon Walton joins Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds MMO and platform
Raph Koster's Playable Worlds MMORPG has picked up two new executives today: Gordon Walton and Omar Abdelwahed.
Walton will be immediately recognizable to modern MMO...
BioWare-supporting studio’s QA workers vote to form Canadian union
This past year or so, we've been observing different unionization efforts popping up in the game industry. Among these is efforts is one that's...
US advocacy groups call upon Federal Trade Commission to investigate EA over FIFA lockboxes
Hot on the heels of Norway's call for lootbox oversight, a non-profit org in the US is now trying to drum up support for...
Microsoft promises ‘creative and collaborative approaches with unions’ in official blog post
With Microsoft on the cusp of buying out all of Activision-Blizzard, there's been plenty of governmental scrutiny and a healthy dose of concern for...
The Soapbox: Are modern games more disposable than ever?
Atlas Rogues went out not with a bang but a whimper. I forgot it even existed. And after it closes July 5th, it's gone....
Kritika Global will resurrect as a play-to-win NFT monstrosity next week
So you guys remember Kritika Online, right? It was published here by En Masse but shut down back in 2019, although it continued running...
The Daily Grind: What level of pay-to-win are you willing to tolerate in MMORPGs?
Friend-of-MOP Clowd over at RIFT blog The Ghar Station penned a provocative piece this week proposing for the MMORPG genre a five-tiered system for...
World Seed removes travel restrictions and adds a cooldown for its free-to-play model
If you've been closely following World Seed, you remember that the game launched out of early access on Steam earlier this month with a...
Hot Pockets teams up with PUBG: Battlegrounds to award you awful cosmetics in a circuitous fashion
The makers of Hot Pockets know what you want, players of PUBG: Battlegrounds. You want Hickory Ham & Cheddar, and you want it hot,...
Amazon Games will publish Disruptive’s upcoming AAA online multiplayer action-adventure game
Amazon Games just announced that it's expanding its purview once again, taking on a publishing deal with indie studio Disruptive Games. Disruptive is best...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida skipped Final Fantasy XI at launch to play Dark Age of Camelot
Naoki Yoshida is best known for his role as the producer and director of Final Fantasy XIV, but the fact of the matter is...
Summer Game Fest is set to return on June 9 with over 30 game studios and another indie showcase
The summer season is almost here and that means it's time for Geoff Keighley to once again begin his cryptid transformation into a physical...
RuneScape’s board game Kickstarter has already pulled in almost half a million dollars
If you wanted a RuneScape-inspired board game, today's good news is that this is absolutely definitely happening now. Steamforged Games, the company making the...
Wrongful death lawsuit filed by family of an Activision-Blizzard employee is dropped
One of the many legal clouds that hang over the head of Activision-Blizzard has cleared: The family of Kerri Moynihan, which alleged in a...
18 European countries back a Norwegian government body’s assertion that lootboxes are ‘manipulative’
Clearly, pushback against the lootbox monetization model is not going away, a fact that is once more being brought to light thanks to a...
MGI & Gamigo Q1 2022: Atlas Rogues is dead
I'm sorry to report this morning that Gamigo is sunsetting Atlas Rogues. The news came on Memorial Day when nobody in the US was...
Belgium and Netherlands reject Diablo Immortal over lockbox gambling concerns
This week's "global launch" of Diablo Immortal already wasn't going to be that global considering that several southeast Asia countries will have to wait...
Pokemon Go’s Niantic might be exploring NFT and crypto-infused AR games
We've noted before that Niantic leadership is heroically awful at reading the freaking room on a number of matters, so perhaps it should come...
Players of Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds decry a crypto-powered cash shop filled with pay-to-win PvP items
Players of the recently released mobile RPG Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds have some thoughts on the game's monetization, particularly its engrained pay-to-earn crypto...
Microsoft will ‘pivot away’ from its plans for a standalone cloud streaming games device
Earlier this month, insider scuttlebutt talked up Microsoft's plans to launch a standalone TV device in the next 12 months that would let players...
