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It’s 2024 and the ESA is still fighting game preservation, forecasting a depraved ‘online arcade’
If you're a longtime MOP reader, you might remember that back in the late teens, we followed the Electronic Frontier Foundation's efforts to petition...
It looks like the ‘noncore IP’ Daybreak sold for $5.9M is PlanetSide after all
Yesterday, when we covered EG7's Q4 2023 financials, we highlighted the company's disclosure that Daybreak had sold a "noncore IP" for $5.9M, a move...
Nexon’s preliminary injunction against Dark and Darker was dismissed, but the lawsuit presses on
One of last year's more distinct stories was related to the medieval fantasy PvPvE extraction RPG Dark and Darker and megacorp Nexon: Readers may...
Elder Scrolls Online is changing the name of its Endless Archive content to Infinite Archive
Elder Scrolls Online's Endless Archive has been live for only six weeks, and it's already undergoing a major change... to its name. ZeniMax Online...
Myth of Empires resolves ARK Survival Evolved copyright lawsuit, paving the way for its return
Who here had "Myth of Empires resolves its legal woes to the point it gets to re-release" on their 2023 bingo card? We certainly...
Dark and Darker launches into paid early access in spite of ongoing legal battle with Nexon
It has been quite a while since we heard from the PvPvE dungeon crawler Dark and Darker, but readers might remember that all through...
Magic to Master dev threatens to sue Gameforge, cancels Kickstarter, and releases new trailer
Laniatus LLC, the company that's trying to revive 2009's Magic to Master, continued to make headlines a couple of weeks ago when Gameforge hit...
Gameforge’s DMCA filing took the Magic to Master Kickstarter down, alleging stolen Metin2 assets
We return to the bizarre and spiraling story of Magic to Master, an old Korean MMORPG brought to Kickstarter by Hungarian studio Laniatus. We're...
The Magic to Master mess devolved into DMCA abuse as Laniatus promises launch ‘regardless of Kickstarter’
We've been trying real hard not to have to write about this game again, but here we are back touching base on the Magic...
Nexon formally files a copyright infringement lawsuit against Dark and Darker studio Ironmace
Considering the very public back-and-forth between Nexon and Dark and Darker developer Ironmace, this development seems like a foregone conclusion, but it is now...
Survival MMO The Day Before struggles to secure trademark as YouTube bans its videos
Boy, we hope that you're not holding your breath for The Day Before because what was once Steam's most-anticipated title is a hot mess of...
Riot Games takes NetEase to court over an alleged mobile Valorant-lookalike
Chinese gaming giant NetEase is facing down a legal challenge from Riot Games over a mobile title that, according to Riot's lawsuit, bears more...
Myth of Empires devs copied ‘substantial portions’ of ARK’s game code according to expert testimony
It's been some time since the legal drama spawned from multiplayer strategy survival sandbox Myth of Empires has been in our headlines, so...
MultiVersus players are facing DMCA strikes for uploading footage with modded character skins
The multiplayer character brawler MultiVersus has seen itself gain plenty of fans and made some strong impressions on two of our own writers. However,...
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...
Myth of Empires dev appeals Steam ban in court as infringement case seeks source code expert
The legal drama spawned by multiplayer strategy survivalbox Myth of Empires has once more taken a laborious, plodding step forward. Readers will recall that...
SoulWorker’s original developer threatens play-to-earn copycat MMO with legal action
Not quite a year ago, Gameforge sunsetted the western version of SoulWorker, and the game reverted back to the game's original Korean developer, Lion...
MMO Business Roundup: Unionbusting, Kakao, sportswashing, DDOS attacks, plagiarism, and PUBG
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO- and MMO-adjacent industry news. I'm sorry.
Raven Software: The internal Activision studio that saw first a strike and...
Survival strategy MMO Myth of Empires is delisted on Steam over copyright infringement allegations
At the end of November we cast a spotlight on the recent Steam early access launch of the game Myth of Empires, a combination...
Wargaming has censored another content creator’s World of Warships videos
It hasn’t been the best year for Wargaming, the game studio behind war arcades World of Tanks and World of Warships, and it seems...
