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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...
Post-apoc multiplayer RPG Eden Falling joins the art NFT frenzy
Evidently, the devs at Razor Edge Games believe that joining in on the NFT nonsense is going to help them finish the post-apocalyptic multiplayer...
Flyff Universe can now be accessed via a browser, plans to introduce a separate pay-to-earn version
Last month we reported on a new version of the classic MMORPG Flyff known as Flyff Universe, which would make the game cross-platform across...
The Daily Grind: Are you sick of crypto and NFT crap in MMOs?
Yesterday, our genre's core subreddit floated a poll to subbers about whether or not crypto and NFT game threads should be characterized as scammy...
Bored Ape Yacht Club’s supposed MMO Otherside generated an NFT trainwreck
Yuga Labs, the tech firm behind the infamous NFT cesspool Bored Ape Yacht Club, is eager to rake in suckers potential players to its...
Bless Unleashed PC is becoming a blockchain play-to-earn MMORPG
Apparently, Valofe can be counted among the other studios being seduced by the siren song of crypto and play-to-earn schemes: A press release from...
Lawful Neutral: How is an NFT MMO even supposed to work?
Recently, MassivelyOP hit a milestone: We received our quadrabajillionth email announcing that Scammy-scammers-now-with-NFTs-and-also-metaverse-because-reasons Inc. was a proven market leader with a new scamming game...
Whatever happened to survival sandbox Life Beyond? It went all-in on blockchain and NFTs
It's been a while since we checked in on survival sandbox Life Beyond, huh? The last time we looked at the game was back...
Richard Garriott is building a blockchain MMO following the failure of Shroud of the Avatar
Richard Garriott is working on a new MMORPG, and yes, it's filled with NFTs.
Garriott, who is probably best known to mainstream gamers as the...
EVE Online boss: NFT stands for ‘Not for Tranquility’
At GDC this year, EVE Online's CCP Games raised eyebrows when CEO Hilmar Petursson was photographed meeting with crypto, NFT, and metaverse entrepreneurs. Players...
Sega executives outline ‘SuperGame’ project plans including potential cloud gaming and NFTs
Despite Sega's own CEO stating in January that it would reel back its NFT gambit if it was "perceived as simple money-making," it looks...
Star Trek announces plans for starship NFTs and a new pay-to-earn game called Star Trek Continuum
You read that headline correctly: Paramount Global is getting into bed with RECUR, a company in the business of creating "innovative NFT experiences with the biggest brands in film, TV, sports, and pop culture," to create starship NFTs based on the Star Trek IP, which in turn will be used in an upcoming pay-to-earn game known as Star Trek: Continuum.
Ubisoft maintenance-modes Ghost Recon Breakpoint following failed NFT scheme
Let us take a moment to chronicle the brief history of Ubisoft's Ghost Recon Breakpoint. The game actually launched back in 2019, though it...
Legends of Aria sports a new site extolling its new blockchain nature
Remember when Legends of Aria was just an indie MMORPG based on allowing player-run servers instead of being involved with a dubious-at-best moneymaking scheme? Good...
GDC 2022: Control, revenue, scarcity, ethics, and the human challenges of the gaming ‘metaverse’
While some panels at GDC 2022 have been deeply disappointing, the panel titled "A Brave New (Virtual) World: Ethics and Governance of XR and...
