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Fallen Earth contemplates using NFTs to fund development
The winner of Massively OP's Biggest MMO Surprise of 2021 has another potential shocker up its sleeve -- and this time it's none too...
Kickstarted MMO Legends of Aria and its studio just got bought out by an NFT metaverse games company
Time to add another game to the acquisition heap this week: Blue Monster Games has apparently purchased Citadel Studios and Legends of Aria, along...
Path of Exile boss tells NFTs to ‘f*ck off’ as the Endless Heist event gets underway
Given the number of games and games companies investigating or outright applying NFTs, crypto, and blockchain schemes seeming to grow by the minute, many...
Peter Molyneux’s multiplayer ‘blockchain business sim’ Legacy sells $53M in land NFTs before release
If you feel strongly about another game making money off of concepts of internet spaceships, then you might have some feelings about what Peter...
Nexon America will now accept cryptocurrencies as payment for in-game cash shop items
You read that headline correctly; cryptocurrencies will now be as acceptable a form of payment as cash if you're buying in-game things from Nexon...
Kickstarter goes crypto with new decentralized blockchain protocol
Just in case you didn't already distrust Kickstarter enough, the company has announced plans to pivot to crypto in an attempt to recapture relevance,...
Ubisoft made good on its NFT scheme promise with ‘Ubisoft Quartz’
File this one under "who asked for this": Ubisoft is going all in on the crypto dystopia with a new NFT-driven implementation in Ghost...
Vague Patch Notes: NFTs in gaming are a bad, dumb idea
This is going to be a little more ranty than usual. Apologies for that in advance, but... well, we're talking about NFTs. NFTs are...
MMO Business Roundup: Discord crypto mess, Unity buys Weta, Roblox Q3 2021 financials
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Business business business... is this working?
Discord: Well, Discord's gone and ticked off its...
Developer Core Loop raises $12M to make an in-development blockchain MMO
This past Friday saw yet another link in the blockchain craze that seems hell-bent on subsuming MMOs get forged with an announcement that development...
EVE Online’s latest newbie experience revamp is paying off as CCP Games dabbles in NFTs
EVE Online's latest dev blog has a few teases and backpats in store for denizens of the biggest sci-fi sandbox MMORPG in town. CCP...
MMO Business Roundup: Ubisoft thinks crypto is just swell
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news.
Ubisoft: Ubisoft just can't seem to stop taking wrong turns here. During its...
Playable Worlds’ Raph Koster on who really owns all the stuff inside your video games
Who owns the stuff inside video games? That's the subject of Raph Koster's latest blog. Koster, of course, is a long-time MMO developer, and...
Valve appears to be banning titles with NFT and crypto trading from Steam
Saying that Valve and Steam have some problems is not a hot take. It is more of a lukewarm take, or if you want...
Kingfall is proudly advertising itself as a casual fantasy MMORPG with NFTs attached
Reading the announcement pinned tweet from Kingfall is a journey. The game is coming soon. All right. It's a casual fantasy MMORPG. Hmm, that...
$40M of Nexon’s $100M bitcoin investment poofed in the last four months
So Nexon's had an interesting financial quarter. Its revenues for Q2 were down quarter over quarter, in line with expectations. Why? Well, it turns...
Nexon CEO talks games industry innovation, venture capital, and crypto
Innovation used to be a major buzzword in the online gaming industry, to the point that its saturation made it pretty tired. The term's...
E3 2021: Blankos Block Party launches PC early access, announces partnerships with Burberry, Deadmau5, and Marathon Clothing
So apparently the earlier "early access soft launch" has decided to drop the soft launch part. Blankos Block Party, the multiplayer game-building title with...
MMO Business Roundup: Nexon’s bitcoins, Fortnite’s tiny iOS playerbase, and GDC’s State of the Industry
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
GDC's State of the Industry: GDC's annual survey of game developers offers an array...
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...
