Ubisoft maintenance-modes Ghost Recon Breakpoint following failed NFT scheme
Let us take a moment to chronicle the brief history of Ubisoft's Ghost Recon Breakpoint. The game actually launched back in 2019, though it...
Jagex announces plans to raise prices of subs and cash items for RuneScape and Old School Runescape on May 4
Take heed, potential new subscribers and cash shop customers of RuneScape and Old School RuneScape: On Wednesday, May 4th, your subscription rates are going...
Legends of Aria sports a new site extolling its new blockchain nature
Remember when Legends of Aria was just an indie MMORPG based on allowing player-run servers instead of being involved with a dubious-at-best moneymaking scheme? Good...
Activision-Blizzard employees stage a digital demonstration over COVID vaccine mandate row
Yesterday saw workers at Activision-Blizzard plan to stage another walkout demonstration over the studio's COVID policies, but bad weather and employees falling ill apparently...
Wargaming will suffer ‘substantial losses’ in corporate exit from Russia and Belarus
Over a month ago, at the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, MMO studio Wargaming was already making a bold statement about the burgeoning...
Activision-Blizzard reverses plan to lift in-office vaccine reqs after employee walkout threat
Activision-Blizzard continues to be put on notice by the proto-union A Better ABK and the workers of the studio. The latest incident revolves around...
Betawatch: Palia wraps up another alpha test
We're sorry if you're one of the many people who dearly wants to play Palia but was not invited to the most recent alpha. You...
Don’t worry, Apple, Roblox likes you instead of Epic in the appeals process
So back when Epic appealed against the ruling in the Epic vs. Apple case - you know, the case that you thought was over...
Unity shines a spotlight on RamenVR and the creation of VR MMO Zenith
Zenith, one of the very few VR MMORPGs out there, was made with the Unity engine, and the company behind the engine appears to...
Some U.S. senators give the Microsoft-Activision buyout the big stink-eye
Not everyone is jumping up and down in approval over the upcoming $68.7 billion Microsoft buyout of Activision Blizzard. According to the Wall Street...
Massively Overthinking: What do you expect from MMO Kickstarters?
I know, I know. People don't trust Kickstarters anymore. Nor should they, especially now. I think our genre knows this now. For every Wagadu...
The ‘death by a thousand papercuts version of sexism’ engulfed State of Decay studio Undead Labs, according to new expose
Earlier today, Kotaku ran an expose of Undead Labs, best known for the State of Decay franchise and now housed under no less than...
International sanctions cause Steam payment snarl-ups for indie game devs in Russia and Ukraine
The effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine have already been felt across the gaming industry in a variety of ways, but a new effect...
GDC 2022: Control, revenue, scarcity, ethics, and the human challenges of the gaming ‘metaverse’
While some panels at GDC 2022 have been deeply disappointing, the panel titled "A Brave New (Virtual) World: Ethics and Governance of XR and...
One More Game’s latest blog talks bot AI, peppers in hints at a possible but ‘hypothetical’ PvP RTS
We're going to lead off by stating that dev studio One More Game - the one that was founded by former ArenaNet and Riot...
GDC 2022: How ‘game stressors’ mix and match for repeatable content development in MMOs
Continuing our GDC 2022Â coverage of Bungie Principal Technical Game Designer Alan Blaine's talk on building challenges and reusable content in Destiny 2, we're going...
CCP Games CEO joins a private meeting with crypto company heads ‘to talk about EVE Online’ at GDC
The possible shadow of a crypto and NFT Damocles continues to hang over EVE Online. We've previously reported on this year's GDC conference being...
Perfect Ten: Conversations with anthropomorphic MMO studios IV: The Voyage Home
I swear before whatever deities you want to name, I cannot get away from this. I've done everything I can to avoid these anthropomorphic...
Activision-Blizzard’s $18M settlement with the EEOC is officially finalized
Yesterday saw the long fight among the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing, and Activision-Blizzard over an $18M...
Hackers yoink crypto worth over half a billion dollars from P2E Axie Infinity
We greet you this fine Wednesday morning with some schadenfreude: The people behind massive exploitative pay-to-earn job/game Axie Infinity have apparently seen their network...
