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Massively Overthinking: Can Amazon actually save Crucible?
Earlier this week, Amazon pulled Crucible back into closed beta for some hefty retooling, a move that surprised basically no one. We'd watched the...
Obituary: WoW and Hearthstone esports star and Twitch streamer Reckful
Gamers and Twitch fans are in mourning this afternoon, as reports confirming the death of streamer Byron "Reckful" Bernstein have hit social media. Both...
This week in why we can’t have nice things: Method, EA, and Ubisoft
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 competitive scene...
Elder Scrolls Online doxxing drama ends with one partnered streamer booted
The Elder Scrolls Online community has been abuzz this weekend over an incident that rocked the game's streaming crew. According to streamer Inklings, who...
Vague Patch Notes: MOBAs, battle royales, and shallow genre pools in the online gaming space
This past week, Nintendo announced Pokemon Unite, and then I had to go to see a doctor because I rolled my eyes so far...
MMO Business Roundup: Stalker Online hack, Oculus Go, Army esports collab, and Apple’s next move
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 latest gaming industry #metoo callouts impact Twitch, MMOs, MOBAs, and esports
The gaming industry is seeing a second wave - a second wave of the #metoo movement, that is. As we covered earlier this week,...
Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds studio raises an additional $10 million in funding
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...
The first esports tournament in World of Warcraft: Classic is the new Summer Bowl
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 WoW...
MMO Business Roundup: Paradox signs union agreement, shareholders slam Activision-Blizzard
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, this...
League of Legends esports matches will now have ads on the battlefield
At long last, Riot Games is going to bring the most desired part of professional sports to the esports events of League of Legends...
Formula E driver gets caught cheating in an esports race after using a surrogate driver
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...
Overwatch League team Vancouver Titans loses its entire roster amidst controversy
There has been some talk that the third season of the Overwatch League is kind of crucial for attracting viewers and convincing fans to...
Gaming-focused chat platform Guilded secures $7 million in funding
Yep, another chat platform is seeking to take Discord's crown, but in the case of Guilded, it's doing so with what it purports to...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2020: Blizzard MAUs flat at 32M, but revenue jumps ahead of Shadowlands
It won't surprise you, given the current global health crisis, that a large portion of Activision-Blizzard's first quarter revenue report and conference call focused...
GDC Summer, Dota 2’s The International, and Fortnite’s World Cup suffer fresh setbacks thanks to the pandemic
More bad news for gaming convention-goers and esports fans: Everything is canceled. OK, not everything, but a lot. And not canceled, but postponed or...
COVID-19 roundup: Rockstar and Jagex help save the UK’s National Videogame Museum and more
COVID-19 is still very much a thing in most of our staff's and readers' lives, and it's still very much impacting the games industry.
A...
No, the Valorant influencers running all those stream giveaways aren’t being paid by Riot
We've talked before about how Valorant has been making big numbers on Twitch spurred mostly by beta keys being dished out for watching streams,...
Overwatch honors a fan on the medical front lines of the COVID-19 outbreak
Overwatch esports has many fans, but the devs felt that some special mention should go towards one fan in particular, a woman by the...
Riot Games outlines rules for Valorant esports competition including a ‘no blood’ toggle
With Valorant all over the gaming news recently and in the minds of a fair few (judging by the number of people watching streams...
