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For Science: Research study identifies money laundering patterns in the Steam Marketplace
Gamers are probably not going to be surprised about some recent research findings that conclude secondary marketplaces in gaming can be used for money...
Steam’s automodding of Counter-Strike skin-selling bots is catching legitimate players in its dragnet
Welcome back to another episode of We Don't Need to Fear the Singularity Because the People Writing AI Are Too Stupid for That to...
A Counter-Strike player shelled out six figures for an AK-47 skin because it had flowers and stickers on it
The worth of digital items can very often be attributed to personal preference no matter how much crypto-hawking gremlins would like you to believe...
Video report highlights CS:GO’s ongoing skin gambling problems and Valve’s continued inattention
It's been a long reported fact that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has a skin gambling problem. The height of this issue was back in 2016,...
2016 lawsuit over CS:GO skin gambling gets thrown out on a technicality
The slow, grinding gears of the legal system has finally yielded a verdict in the last of a series of CS:GO lawsuits from 2016....
Counterstrike: Global Offensive players in Australia get a year-long ban for betting on themselves
It turns out that professional athletes placing bets on their own performances in games is generally frowned upon in most sports. This is true...
CSGO esports set a new online viewership record thanks to quarantine
While the final competition of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2020 didn't exactly draw a huge physical crowd owing to a coronavirus...
Riot Games’ multiplayer FPS Valorant is officially unveiled with new screens, details, and gameplay footage
Looks like the cat has been officially released from the bag. Valorant, the CSGO-like multiplayer FPS that was hitherto known as Project A, has...
A teenage CS:GO player has developed an AI that has successfully found 14,000 cheaters
While cheaters may never prosper, they also have a tendency to proliferate if not kept in check (and even sometimes when companies do try...
CS:GO stops letting players sell container keys due to their use in money laundering
The otherwise innocuous activity of selling keys to open containers in CS:GO has apparently been used for far more nefarious purposes. According to a...
Gamer involved in swatting murder gets 15 months in prison and a two-year gaming ban
This past August, we followed up on efforts in Wichita, Kansas, to stop swatting after one such Call of Duty-related "prank" saw 28-year-old Andrew...
The MOP Up: Conan Exiles pops its god bubbles
Bubbles. They are marvelous things that thrill children, turn gum into an art form, and apparently ward off evil barbarians from being naughty. Of...
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now being review-bombed on Steam
We all know how Valve (owner of Steam) hates moderating things, right? Especially down to more or less fighting review bombing simply by telling...
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now free-to-play with a new battle royale mode
Gosh, the mighty have fallen when it comes to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The game isn't hemorrhaging players like certain other titles, but it does appear...
Belgium begins criminal investigation into EA’s noncompliance with gambling laws as lockboxes remain in FIFA
Activision-Blizzard and Valve may have cooperated with European nations' lockbox demands, but apparently EA won't be playing ball.
You'll recall that at the end of...
Valve turns off lootboxes in the Netherlands for DOTA 2 and CounterStrike: Global Offensive
If you were in any way hoping that the Dutch Gaming Authority's ruling about lockboxes would lead to a worldwide shift, it seems that's...
CSGO players petition Valve to revert strict skin trading rules
Readers of Massively OP will recall that over the past few years, skin trading in games like CSGO have made international headlines when the...
The MOP Up: Overwatch rings in the Lunar New Year (February 4, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive community rocked by death threat controversy
Here is a lesson that we should all take to heart: Smack talk is one thing, actual death threats are entirely another.
The Counter-Strike: Global...
FTC settles CS:GO Lotto influencer corruption complaint
It's not enough for the CS:GO community to bleed players to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds; nope, this week it's taking another blow in the form of...
