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Almost 2M PlayStation Plus subbers quit this summer following pricing revamp
This past March, Sony thought it would be a keen and swell idea to mess with its PlayStation Plus subscription plan, announcing plans to...
MMO Business Roundup: China’s gaming crackdown, NetEase Connect, Wild Rift plagiarism, and Valve’s anti-trust lawsuit
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China: The Chinese government is continuing to widen its long-running crackdown on...
MMO Business Roundup: China’s freeze, ABK’s new diversity officer, and Sony and Epic’s metaverse
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China has ended its latest gaming-approval freeze after nine months of regulators locking out...
With some trading restrictions lifted, GameStop stock is taking off again
The GME train keeps on a rollin' here on Friday. As daytraders and retail stock-buyers have been organizing on Reddit to buy GameStop stock...
Habbo Hotel developer Sulake is fully bought out by gaming and adtech firm Azerion
It's time for some games business news that may or may not be good for Habbo Hotel! The multiplayer social game's developer Sulake has...
The Reddit-driven GameStop stock spike isn’t going to end well
(We're continuing to update this piece on the latest at the end!)
If I had told you last year that GameStop, the retail business that...
Roblox goes public on the stock market with an IPO filing, confirms it’s operating at a loss
The massively popular online game-building game Roblox is going to toss its hat into the stock market ring. The company has officially filed an...
MMO Business Roundup: Paradox signs union agreement, shareholders slam Activision-Blizzard
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Activision-Blizzard is under fire yet again for its corporate management, this...
MMO Business Roundup: Guerilla Collective, PlayStation Studios, XLGAMES’ new MMO, ChinaJoy, and NCsoft’s baseball team
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Funcom: The Norwegian MMO company will be participating...
MMO Business Roundup: Warcraft modding, Valve source code leaks, and Nvidia goes good
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Warcraft modding: Polygon has an interesting explainer up on Blizzard's recent changes to its...
MMO Business Roundup: Funcom’s corporate move, Japan’s ratings board, and Dean Hall’s next big thing
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Funcom: Funcom is moving to...
MMO Business Roundup: Valve is shopping around Dota 2’s top tourney
Time for another quick roundup of a bunch of MMO-adjacent businessy stories that were drowning in our busy Thursday newsroom!
The International: Valve is raising...
MMO Business Roundup: Tim Sweeney’s politics gaffe, Nexon’s Q4 2019, and the old BioWare crew
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Politics in games
Epic's Tim Sweeney opened this week's DICE Summit with a whopper of...
Vague Patch Notes: How to read games industry investor reports as a player
The old adage goes that diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. By extension, marketing is the...
MMO Business Roundup: Kakao’s controlling stake in XLGAMES, Steam’s new record, Xbox’s games-as-a-service
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Kakao Games: Kakao has snapped up a controlling stake in XLGAMES, having acquired 53%...
MMO Business Roundup: Stadia, Coronavirus, E3, VR, EVE Fanfest, Discord, and WOTC’s BioWare devs
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Stadia: Google has responded to the uproar over its poor communication with the Stadia...
MMO Business Roundup: Guild Wars’ art book, Day of Dragons drama, Red Dead hackers, FogBank layoffs, and more
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Guild Wars' art book: If you happened to read our swag guide ahead of...
MMO Business Roundup: Tencent, Ubisoft, Rockstar, energy, Creativerse, and Cold Iron Studios
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Tencent: Just before Funcom and Tencent announced the Chinese gaming giant was angling to...
MMO Business Roundup: Netmarble’s new CEO, Riot Tabletop, and Epic Games Store’s 2019 numbers
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO industry news that was mildly interesting but not enough to make anyone wanna do it as a...
MMO Business Roundup: Threats on Square Enix, Netmarble’s weak Q2, and Steam’s Workshop scammers
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Square Enix: First up, another edition of why we can't have nice...