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At the tail end of July, Riot Games managed to piss off gamers, streamers, esports stars, and its own developers by unilaterally announcing a...

We're back with another dip into Activision-Blizzard's financials, this one Q2 2020, the first report since shareholders lambasted the company for excessive executive...

I never got the impression that some players of Call of Duty are a particularly compliant bunch, and that assumption was not helped...

The League of Legends esports community was set on fire and then partially doused this week thanks to a decision - now rescinded...

Two of Riot Games' titles are in our news room, so why not just bundle the two together? It should be easier for you...

Sure, you could shoot foes in Valorant with boring guns like a pleb, or you could have tiny yet grumpy dragons cough at...

If anyone here was looking forward to esports events that were set to be hosted in China like the League of Legends World...

What you're about to read is an account of how three guys in China defrauded Tencent under the guise of a famous chili sauce...

Earlier this week, Amazon pulled Crucible back into closed beta for some hefty retooling, a move that surprised basically no one. We'd watched...

Gamers and Twitch fans are in mourning this afternoon, as reports confirming the death of streamer Byron "Reckful" Bernstein have hit social media. Both...

The fallout from June's games industry abuse and assault call-outs continues. Let's start with Method, the guild that's been driving World of Warcraft's...

The Elder Scrolls Online community has been abuzz this weekend over an incident that rocked the game's streaming crew. According to streamer

This past week, Nintendo announced Pokemon Unite, and then I had to go to see a doctor because I rolled my eyes so...

Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Stalker hack: If you're one of the mostly Russian players of Wargaming's Stalker Online,...

The gaming industry is seeing a second wave - a second wave of the #metoo movement, that is. As we covered earlier this...

We still know nothing about what the first project out of Raph Koster's new studio, Playable Worlds, will actually look like. But we do...

Now that there's a second form of World of Warcraft out and playable, don't you want to know who's the best player in...

Welcome back to another quickie roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent gaming industry business news. Activision-Blizzard is under fire yet again for its corporate management,...

At long last, Riot Games is going to bring the most desired part of professional sports to the esports events of League of...

It really seemed like a no-brainer, didn't it? If racing can't happen in real life, you can just go over to video games about...