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MMO Business Roundup: Preservation, charity, modding, memes, and Microsoft’s merger
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Microsoft ABK: It's not just the US digging into Microsoft's...
MMO Business Roundup: Embracer, Perfect World, ESO Chinese localization, and Runeterra cheaters
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Embracer - The company that now owns MMORPG studio Cryptic and all its games...
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: ArenaNet’s pro-choice stance, Blizzard’s new VP, and Nexon’s new CEO
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Human rights - ArenaNet and NCsoft have lent their voices - or at...
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...
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...
Lawful Neutral: Recapping the MMO industry’s legal dramas, 2021 edition
With meatspace commitments causing no-end of stress and herculean amounts of work for me, Lawful Neutral had a bit of a slow year that...
MMO Business Roundup: Discord crypto mess, Unity buys Weta, Roblox Q3 2021 financials
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Discord: Well, Discord's gone and ticked off its...
Lawful Neutral: Managing toxicity in the MMO industry
When I'm playing games, I make a lot of use of the reporting function. If I see a moonkin zerg farming a spot in...
Tencent, Netease hit with stock losses amid China’s gaming industry clampdown
If you've been following the gaming industry for a while, you probably remember the big "freezes" that the Chinese government placed on new game...
Portal Knights studio gets $10M investment to make open-world sandbox
After selling over 3.5 million copies of Portal Knights, what's indie developer Keen Games going to do next? Make an even bigger game, that's...
Lawful Neutral: Defining toxicity in the MMO industry
One of my earliest memories from World of Warcraft isn't really a positive one. It was in back in the Wrath days. My guild...
MMO Business Roundup: Chicken Drumstick, 9000 zombies, Valorant Mobile, Pantheon hiring, Secret World’s novels
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Chicken Drumstick: Yes, I'm afraid this is a real thing. Vice's Motherboard...
MMO Business Roundup: Discord, Ubisoft, Twitch, WB Games, Starfield, and more
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO- and MMO-adjacent games industry news! First, let's talk about Clyde. He's got a bit of a makeover.
Discord:...
MMO Business Roundup: Q1 2021 financials for Roblox, Nexon, and Star Stable
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Star Stable: I'm frankly just as surprised as anyone to be starting this...
Sony injects investment into Discord ahead of putting Discord on PlayStation
Well now, suddenly it's a lot more clear why Discord and Microsoft ended their buyout talks, isn't it?
Yes, Sony announced today that it's partnering...
MMO Business Roundup: Roblox prank, Hi-Rez, Wargaming, Epic’s funding round, CCP’s metaverse
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A Roblox player from a goofy political meme group apparently pulled quite a stunt...
MMO Business Roundup: Germany, lockboxes, Distintegration, and CCP vs. the bots
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German lockboxes: We've gone through two full cycles of lockbox backlash in the...
MMO Business Roundup: Stadia’s and Bethsoft’s class-actions, Epic’s lockbox settlement, and CDPR’s DMCA takedowns
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news - in this case, all happy fun lawsuits.
Stadia: Consumers are waging a new...
MMO Business Roundup: Stadia’s bungle, Axie Infinity’s $1.5M in-game property
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Stadia: The Google mess just gets thicker, as apparently, developers on Stadia's internal...