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WoW Dragonflight PTR datamining pinpoints account-saving features for Chinese players

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Last month we reported on potential next steps for Chinese World of Warcraft players who were being left in the lurch as a result...
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Microsoft walks back constitutional rights complaints in re-filed response to FTC antitrust lawsuit

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Microsoft caused plenty of eye rolling and head shaking when it filed its response to the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit, claiming among other...

Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2023

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As 2022 drew to a close, we spent our Massively Overthinking roundtables discussing our predictions for 2023 as well as our goals. Now, we're...

FTC and Microsoft confirm a lack of ‘substantive’ settlement talks as UK regulatory body extends its investigation

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There have been a couple of small but no less important steps in the continuing story of Microsoft's buyout of Activision-Blizzard. We begin with...
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Overwatch 2’s limited-time Battle for Olympus game mode brings a clash of the gods in FFA deathmatch

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The characters of Overwatch 2 are already regular humans with some god-like power and strength, but the Battle for Olympus game mode arriving on...

Microsoft’s ZeniMax QA just formed the largest games industry union in the country

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Just before the holiday break, workers at Microsoft's ZeniMax Media - including Elder Scrolls Online's ZeniMax Online Studios and Bethesda itself - announced their...

FTC lawsuit against Microsoft enters pre-trial hearings today while the merger is approved in Chile

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The antitrust lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission against Microsoft is taking its first plodding steps forward. A judge confirmed last week that...
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Documents outline a multi-million dollar US Army recruitment campaign using influencers and Call of Duty

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Apparently, the United States Army is eager to find any number of "creative" ways to get younger people to enlist. Documents obtained by Vice...

The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2022

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2022 marks the fifth year in a row we've done this roundup, but the Daily Grind has been a recurring mini-column here on MassivelyOP...

Blizzard-owned studio Proletariat announces plans to form a union

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Workers at a third studio owned by Activision-Blizzard are planning to organize: Proletariat, which readers may recall was the studio behind battle royale game...
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Microsoft claims the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit violates its fifth amendment rights

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The beginning of this month saw Microsoft's big money buyout of Activision-Blizzard hit a US federal government-level snag when the FTC filed an antitrust...
Costs money!

Overwatch 2 breaks down its MMR and matchmaking systems while hinting at planned updates

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A competitive shooter like Overwatch 2 lives and dies by a few different grinding gears, such as those that power player MMR and matchmaking,...
well then

Gamers file lawsuit to stop Microsoft’s buyout of Activision-Blizzard over monopoly concerns

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The multi-billion dollar purchase of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft has run into another stern legal challenge, but this time it isn't coming from the Federal...
Among all the many, many ways you are terrible.

Activision-Blizzard’s president/COO leaves in March – for the Bored Apes Yacht Club crypto outfit

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It appears that one of Activision-Blizzard's top brass will end his tenure by next year. According to a filing with the SEC, Activision-Blizzard president...

Members of US Congress send letters to game companies about combating extremism in online gaming

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According to a December report from the Anti-Defamation League, extremism in online gaming is on the rise for the fourth year in a row....

Overwatch 2 launches Winter Wonderland this week

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It's time to mark the wintery season in both Hearthstone and Overwatch 2 as both games have lined up their seasonal events for the......
Run! They've got a New World in the sidecar!

End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2022

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I might be biased - by which I mean I am definitely biased - but 2022 was a year of big stories and big...

Diablo Immortal adds a new zone, more Hell Difficulties, and a holiday event in latest update

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Terror's Tide is crashing across Diablo Immortal, and with it comes a large-scale update for the mobile MMO, with new content, updates to existing...

Activision-Blizzard’s new lawsuit is another attack on the state agency pursuing it for discrimination and harassment

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Activision-Blizzard has filed a lawsuit against California's Civil Rights Department (fka the DFEH) alleging that the agency "slow-walked" and "unlawfully redacted" documents the company...
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The FTC is moving to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard

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Some things are just not surprising, and the FTC deciding that it wants to block the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft is one such...

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