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 -...
WoW Factor: Some thoughts on the Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard
At this point, keeping up with what's going on with Activision-Blizzard is far more of an involved project than keeping up with World of...
Acti-Blizz buyout, day two: Labor, stock, Kotick, and the reasons behind the sale
The news has been flying fast and furious over the last 24 hours since Microsoft announced it was buying Activision-Blizzard for just under $70B....
Myth of Empires skirts the Steam DMCA takedown by selling the game directly
Apparently, Myth of Empires developer Angela Game is not going to let a little thing like being taken off of Steam and sued for...
Webzen is closing down five-year-old Mu Origin in the west
Mu Origin is apparently en route to shutdown here in the west.
"It has been over 5 years that we have traveled the MU continent...
Riot confirms Runeterra MMO’s group-centered design philosophy
While Riot Games' in-development Runeterra MMO still hasn't publicized anything that resembles gameplay, release plans, or even testing plans, what it does have is...
Activision-Blizzard claims it fired still more employees but disputes scope of misconduct
Activision-Blizzard is being bought out by Microsoft, but that doesn't mean its problems have been solved.
Bowing to pressure from investors and its own staff,...
Microsoft is acquiring Activision-Blizzard, Bobby Kotick is still CEO
Welp, apparently the Activision-Blizzard hot potato is hopping to a new owner: Microsoft just announced that it's acquiring the beleaguered gaming corporation.
"With three billion...
2016 lawsuit over CS:GO skin gambling gets thrown out on a technicality
The slow, grinding gears of the legal system has finally yielded a verdict in the last of a series of CS:GO lawsuits from 2016....
Activision-Blizzard addresses Call of Duty mess, striking devs report ‘radio silence’
Raven Software, developer of several Call of Duty titles including COD: Warzone, is still on strike due to a sudden bout of firing of...
Lawful Neutral: Recapping the MMO industry’s legal dramas, 2021 edition
With meatspace commitments causing no-end of stress and herculean amounts of work for me, Lawful Neutral had a bit of a slow year that...
Second Life’s original founder rejoins the project to create the ultimate metaverse
I swear, every time I have to write the word "metaverse" these days, a part of my soul dies and my eyes get a...
Betawatch: Zenith begins closed beta ahead of January 27 VR launch
Did you know that Zenith is in closed beta right now? Because it won't be for much longer; the game is moving into launch...
The Xbox One era is finally, officially over, plus Halo 3 sunsets
It's the end of a monumental era of console gaming, as Microsoft confirmed that it discontinued all production of Xbox One S units a...
Final Fantasy XIV outlines plans for sales resumption, server expansion, and server adjustments
If your server in Final Fantasy XIV is still crowded right now, you can be assured that Naoki Yoshida knows that, and the team...
Massively Overthinking: The biggest 2021 MMO trainwrecks (almost) nobody noticed
Believe it or not, we're finally almost done with our entire lineup of turn-of-the-calendar-year content and recaps and tallies. It's exhausting! But I have...
Elite Dangerous Odyssey had a ‘difficult calendar year,’ but Frontier claims an ‘upturn in player sentiment’
Back in November, we covered the release of Frontier Developments' annual investor report, which didn't bode well for Elite Dangerous. Readers will recall that...
Former Activision-Blizzard staffer likens the company to the Titanic
Remember a few years ago when one of our quotes of the year was "our mentors are leaving in droves" - one Blizzard worker's...
Daybreak seeks a new executive producer for Magic: The Gathering Online
At the tail end of December, Magic: The Gathering Online fans were surprised by the sudden announcement that the online CCG would now be...
LEGO pauses launch of Overwatch 2 toy set over ongoing Activision-Blizzard scandal
Activision-Blizzard might've thought it could start over after the holidays and put some distance between it and the massive discrimination and harassment scandal it...
