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Game dev flips a panel into an anti-crypto attack, earning applause from attendees and ire from NFT sponsors
Many folks may not have heard of Mark Venturelli, a designer for the turn-based strategy title Chroma Squad and founder of developers Critical Studio...
Massively Overthinking: Solved problems in MMOs
One of the most annoying pet peeves this genre seems to spin up frequently is some companies' tendency to treat solved problems as unsolved...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that have fallen to the dark side of cryptocurrency
Here's an interesting point that's worth considering: For all the talk about cryptocurrencies, NFTs, the metaverse, and other Web3 buzzwords being the future of...
Axie Infinity’s massive crypto theft by hackers was possible thanks to a job search phishing scam
Most of our regular readers know Axie Infinity as the game that saw a North Korean hacker gang get away with a huge stash...
Colony sandbox MMO SEED raises another $41M in investment, partly from a blockchain company
Way back in 2017, we learned about a then-new SpatialOS MMORPG called SEED from Klang Games. SEED was supposed to be a colony-centered sandbox...
No Man’s Sky players have created a game-specific cryptocurrency to facilitate in-game trade
For those who are at the tippy-top of progression in No Man's Sky, you might find yourself drowning in in-game currencies without much to...
The MOP Up: World of Warcraft counts down the end of Shadowlands Season 3
Just a heads-up for those still participating in World of Warcraft's Mythic+ and PvP seasons: Season 3 has about a month left before Season...
Blockchain-linked survival sandbox Life Beyond begins its first open alpha testing phases
Back in April, we reported on the unfortunate news that survival sandbox Life Beyond is angling towards blockchain and NFT integration thanks to developer...
BitCraft affirms it will not integrate cryptocurrencies, calling the scheme a FOMO ‘black hole’
With a name like BitCraft, it was probably easy for NFT and crypto speculators to believe the game would be angling to their side...
Riders of Icarus forges deeper into NFT territory
It seems like just yesterday that all we had to worry about in patch notes was whether or not our favorite class was getting...
The Daily Grind: Is there any dead MMO you’d play if it were resurrected by blockchain schemers?
Earlier this month, Justin and I jawed on the MassivelyOP podcast about the revival of Kritika Online, which turned out to be an exploitative...
Play-to-earn Axie Infinity hasn’t weathered the crypto crash well as players ‘lose hope’
The cautionary tale that is Axie Infinity is likely well known to most, but for those who are looking for a rundown of the...
Legends of Aria plans to de-list from Steam at the end of the month as part of its crypto relaunch
As you have no doubt learned by now in the event that you considered it relevant information, Legends of Aria is going to be...
Newly relaunched Kritika Online’s cash shop is just as gross as you’d assume
Normally around these parts we would be cheering on the resurrection of an MMORPG. But in the case of Kritika Online, which has returned...
E3 plans to return next year as Gamescom 2022 tickets go on sale
The ESA is apparently not willing to let its E3 trade show-cum-games hype dispensary go into that good night. While this year's event has...
Shroud of the Avatar lets you process the heck out of new fetid fish types
Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever been playing Shroud of the Avatar and found yourself with an inventory downright overflowing in...
Kritika Global will resurrect as a play-to-win NFT monstrosity next week
So you guys remember Kritika Online, right? It was published here by En Masse but shut down back in 2019, although it continued running...
Pokemon Go’s Niantic might be exploring NFT and crypto-infused AR games
We've noted before that Niantic leadership is heroically awful at reading the freaking room on a number of matters, so perhaps it should come...
Players of Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds decry a crypto-powered cash shop filled with pay-to-win PvP items
Players of the recently released mobile RPG Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds have some thoughts on the game's monetization, particularly its engrained pay-to-earn crypto...
Riders of Icarus, which topped a million players six years ago, is going play-to-earn with NFTs
Welp, Riders of Icarus had a nice run.
Readers will recall that the taming-centric MMO soft-launched almost six years ago under Nexon's banner with over...
