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MMO Business Roundup: Roblox’s 4D AI, Perfect World’s layoffs, Bethsoft’s unionization, and Rockstar’s ambitions
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Roblox - The controversial games giant now claims that it's "building...
Canadian court rules lockboxes aren’t illegal gambling, ‘deceptive acts’ suit continues
Back in October 2020, we reported on a class action lawsuit filed in Canada against EA that covered over 70 different titles that used...
Dauntless and Fae Farm studio Phoenix Labs just bought itself out
Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs is making another huge move this week, as it's apparently secured investment that will allow its management to buy it...
FTC orders Epic Games to pay $520M for privacy violations and deceptive ‘dark patterns’ in Fortnite
Epic Games has just received a walloping from the US Federal Trade Commission in the form of two massive payout settlements for violating the...
BioWare-supporting studio’s QA workers vote to form Canadian union
This past year or so, we've been observing different unionization efforts popping up in the game industry. Among these is efforts is one that's...
Contract QA workers at BioWare Edmonton were allowed to work from home as union vote begins
Near the end of April, we reported on the news that contracted QA testers working at BioWare's Edmonton studio who have started the process...
Pet-gathering open world MMO Chimeraland announces NA release plans, starts Canadian closed beta
Over the course of the past year we've been covering the progress of Chimeraland, an open world cross-platform MMO coming to PC, iOS, and...
BioWare’s contract QA workers in Canada are aiming for unionization
If games companies thought that they could stave off worker organization attempts with union busting, they haven't met 2022: Apparently, now a portion of...
Time-travel MMO Into the Echo releases new video and alpha signups
Back in August, we covered a newly unveiled time-travel MMORPG called Into the Echo. Canada-based ETLOK Studios pitched the game as one with "traditional...
Galaxies of Eden is a new sandbox MMORPG with all the Star Wars Galaxies trappings
So here's a new MMO that just landed in our inbox: It's called Galaxies of Eden, and studio MIR Cybernetics Corporation is billing it...
CIG recruits Turbulent to open a new Montreal studio and build new star systems for Star Citizen
Star Citizen developer CIG already has studios in the US, UK, and Germany. What it didn't have was a studio in Montreal, Canada, up...
Not So Massively: Overwatch 2 is what Overwatch should have been from the start
Much to my own surprise, the announcement that most excited me at BlizzCon this year was not from any of the franchises I usually...
Montreal law firm wants to launch a class action lawsuit against Fortnite for being addictive to minors
Montreal law firm Calex Légal has officially filed a request to launch a class action lawsuit against Epic Games and its Canadian subsidiary for...
For Science: A deeper look at the Proteus effect and Toronto’s game dev mental health summit
We once more have a couple of science and gaming news pieces to share, so let's bundle them up like last time and get...
EVE North 2019: A huge battle once broke out in EVE Online, but not a single player was involved
Massive battles are the norm for sci-fi MMO EVE Online, with players routinely clashing in their hundreds or thousands over territorial claims and political...
Champions Online announces the Patriot’s Celebration for Independence Day and Canada Day
It's June 28th, and that means there's only seven days left to get your 4th of July events posted. Champions Online is waaaay out...
