Elyon details February server merge, patches in Lunar New Year event and season pass
When the server merge happens for Elyon on February 16th, there are oh so many reasons why your character might be deleted. Do you have...
Final Fantasy XIV deals with character transfer congestion after re-opening the service
The opening of the Oceania data center for Final Fantasy XIV meant opening up the ability for players to transfer their characters across the game's...
Raven Software files for union election after ActiBlizz ignores recognition request
Activision Blizzard's Raven Software has moved forward with its next step in officially forming its Game Workers Alliance union. Readers will recall that ActiBlizz...
Global Agenda is back from the dead at least temporarily, Hi-Rez confirms
Global Agenda has long been a lament in the sliver of the MMO community that loved it. It was a Hi-Rez Studios free-to-play MMO...
MMO Business Roundup: Unionbusting, Kakao, sportswashing, DDOS attacks, plagiarism, and PUBG
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO- and MMO-adjacent industry news. I'm sorry.
Raven Software: The internal Activision studio that saw first a strike and...
Final Fantasy XIV adds a new data center in Oceania and buffs several jobs with today’s patch 6.08
It's a good day to be melee DPS in Final Fantasy XIV because nearly every melee DPS job got some pretty substantial potency buffs with...
Epic Games says it’s not establishing ‘Europe’s largest esports center’ in Norway
We've updated the title and the end of this article as Epic says the Norwegian source article is in error and that it is...
SpatialOS developer Improbable’s polling says 90% of gamers think the metaverse will form in ten years
The joke is that 80% of poll stats are just made up numbers. That could certainly be applied to data released by SpatialOS developer...
RuneScape is getting a Steamforged Games-crafted tabletop game and board game
If you've been hankering for another version of RuneScape to play, Jagex is granting you your wish, though it's not a PC game this...
Activision’s Raven Software workers end strike pending official recognition of its union
The strike from ActiBlizz's Raven Software, which was kicked off when QA workers were facing surprise firings before the holidays after being told some...
Riot Games adds multi-factor auth, a new champion to League of Legends, muted words feature to Valorant
Riot Games is all up in our news business this week, with several headlines coming out of the studio for its multiplayer games. Here's...
Decentraland’s promotional rave shows the least energetic online party ever
Have you ever been to a concert in Fortnite? How about Final Fantasy XIV or Lord of the Rings Online or AdventureQuest 3D? Have you ever been to...
Activision-Blizzard’s Raven Software is formally unionizing
Perhaps ignoring and gaslighting the strikers wasn't the best move for Activision after all: WAPO reports that "over 30" QA testers at Activision's Raven...
Sony believes Microsoft will ‘continue to ensure Activision games are multiplatform’
While most MMORPG players are watching this week's pending sale of Activision-Blizzard to Microsoft because of the MMORPGs, people outside the World of Warcraft...
Blizzard addresses regaining player trust as Kotick’s all-hands meeting leaves workers unsettled
Earlier this evening, Blizzard's Mike Ybarra posted a public message to the company's players. Ybarra, of course, was appointed co-lead of Blizzard Entertainment following...
Gamigo launches a new department and plans new acquisitions to increase its publishing efforts
It would seem that Gamigo is intent on making the publishing arm of its business that much stronger in 2022. The company, which already...
GDC’s State of the Game Industry: NFTs, the metaverse, and more than half of game devs want to unionize
Ahead of the annual Game Developers Conference, GDC organizers poll industry workers and release it all in a state-of-the-industry wrapper, which has landed in...
Reddit’s co-founder thinks crypto gaming and players ‘being properly valued’ for game time will be the norm in five years
Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, has peered into his crystal ball to look at the future of gaming, and that future sounds like...
Perfect Ten: Bad takes about Microsoft buying Activision-Blizzard and why they’re wrong
Sigh. So today's column is one that I really didn't have an urgent desire to write, but then we started talking about the various...
Activision-Blizzard submits useless Microsoft buyout FAQ for employees
We sure hope you're not tired of hearing about Activision-Blizzard and its labor messes, discrimination and harassment scandal, and pending sale to Microsoft -...
