Final Fantasy XIV suspends sales and ads to mitigate Endwalker server congestion
So, anecdotally, how's the congestion situation for you in Final Fantasy XIV? Getting better? Director and producer Naoki Yoshida clearly feels that it's not getting...
PAX East 2022 will be in-person in April, requiring vaccines and masking
ReedPop and Penny Arcade announced this week that PAX East is on for 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts, returning to an in-person event from April...
It’s official: Gamigo’s new game is Kickstarted sandbox MMORPG Fractured
As we've been covering for the last couple of weeks, Gamigo's been teasing a big new secret MMORPG, and the community was already pretty...
Nexon America will now accept cryptocurrencies as payment for in-game cash shop items
You read that headline correctly; cryptocurrencies will now be as acceptable a form of payment as cash if you're buying in-game things from Nexon...
Myth of Empires studio seeks to take Studio Wildcard and Snail Games to court over Steam DMCA takedown
As MMO early access launches go, the release of Myth of Empires has certainly been the weirdest. First arriving to our radar at the...
Court denies the California DFEH intervention in the Activision-Blizzard EEOC settlement
You know that things are not going great for a company when multiple state and federal agencies are all descending on you for various...
ESPN hosted a Microsoft Excel esports competition this past weekend
The easy joke to make would be to reference "spreadsheets in space" MMORPGs, but honestly the truth is far stranger and funnier than any...
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s future, Odyssey’s state, and Kickstarter crypto
This week in MMO crowdfunding, we fretted over the future of Crowfall, as rumors that ArtCraft is already considering a sunset were floated and...
Bungie workers expose a studio mired in sexism and racism trying to right its ship
While the grand majority of the spotlight is being thrown on Activision-Blizzard for its past and ongoing poor treatment of its workforce, the games...
Betawatch: Steam gives booming survival Myth of Empires the boot
How it started: Survival strategy MMOÂ Myth of Empires was announced, started selling early access... er... access, and everyone was happy. How it's going: The...
Activision-Blizzard execs attempt to ward off incipient workers union
With Activision-Blizzard workers organizing, striking, fundraising, and working toward unionization and ATVI stock falling 40% following what has now been five months of scandal...
The Game Awards 2021: Lost Ark launches February 11, Nightingale is a new multiplayer survivalbox
(We're updating at the end with all the big news!)
Geoff Keighley's Game Awards are getting bigger and more star-studded by the year, and that...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2021
One of my favorite traditions every year is to put a spotlight back on some of the wild things MMORPG developers said every year....
Survival strategy MMO Myth of Empires is delisted on Steam over copyright infringement allegations
At the end of November we cast a spotlight on the recent Steam early access launch of the game Myth of Empires, a combination...
World of Warcraft introduces its community council forums
So remember when Blizzard announced that it was starting a community council for World of Warcraft that would hand-picked by Blizzard directly to represent...
Kickstarter goes crypto with new decentralized blockchain protocol
Just in case you didn't already distrust Kickstarter enough, the company has announced plans to pivot to crypto in an attempt to recapture relevance,...
Activision-Blizzard fields new accusations as workers strike, fundraise, and issue union cards
The thumbscrews around Activision-Blizzard and Bobby Kotick tightened that much more yesterday when a current employee of the company, identified only as Christine, held...
Ubisoft made good on its NFT scheme promise with ‘Ubisoft Quartz’
File this one under "who asked for this": Ubisoft is going all in on the crypto dystopia with a new NFT-driven implementation in Ghost...
Activision-Blizzard is walking out again, Australia’s game industry unionizes
Activision-Blizzard's workers are continuing to mobilize: Following the mass-layoffs at Activision's RavenQA over the weekend, Raven workers staged a walkout yesterday, and now they're...
Lord of the Rings Online explains how its delayed legendary item track works
While it was supposed to be a launch day feature for Fate of Gundabad, Lord of the Rings Online's new legendary item reward track...
