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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...
NASCAR driver botches yet another online iRacing esports event
It would appear that NASCAR drivers are no better than the worst esports gamers among us. An iRacing esports event with NASCAR drivers --...
NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace ragequits during an official esports racing event
So apparently NASCAR is hosting an esports event featuring real drivers in a simulated series of races in the racing sim title iRacing. Readers...
COVID-19 roundup: Brick-and-mortar game store stupidity, ‘reimagined’ E3 2021, and Twitch’s new record
We're back once again with some more novel coronavirus news stories all bundled up for you in one place, and friends, we're going to...
COVID-19 roundup: Game platforms, pandemic sales, and the potential for a digital Gamescom
I think it's high time I took over one of these coronavirus roundup stories, wouldn't you agree? So allow me to offer yet another...
COVID-19 roundup: #PlayApartTogether, Blade & Soul perks, and Twitch Aid’s $2.7M charity raise
Welcome back to another quick roundup of pandemic-related MMO and gaming news. We'll start with the big one: The World Health Organization, which made...
Not So Massively: StarCraft II has quietly become Blizzard’s best-managed property
While I do think the studio's actions at BlizzCon are encouraging, it still feels weird heaping praise on Blizzard right now. But I also...
Former Blizzard, Twitch, and Riot bosses pour money into Rally Cry esports
Following the exit of Mike Morhaime from Blizzard Entertainment last year - in a year when Blizzard found multiple ways to light itself on...
Coronavirus roundup: Blizzard, free APB Reloaded, EA esports, HPWU, and how your PC can help humans win
Feel pretty surreal to be reporting on a global crisis like the coronavirus in our indie pages here on MOP, but it affects everyone...
Coronavirus leads to E3’s cancellation, plus SMITE and Pokemon Go postpone events
Update: The ESA has now made it official. We've included the press release at the end of this article.
If you thought it was strange...
Coronavirus concerns cancel SXSW, Minecraft Festival, and several FIFA 20 and Apex Legends esports events
The spreading novel coronavirus aka COVID-19 has once more seen a number of gaming-related events cancelled or otherwise postponed.
First off is the collective...
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...
Rumor: Riot’s ‘Project A’ CSGO-clone is probably called Valorant
You guys ever notice how every time there's a bad headline about the Riot lawsuits, there's a new Riot leak? Probably total coincidence. But...
CCP Games just canceled April’s EVE Fanfest over coronavirus concerns
Yesterday, we wrote about ongoing discussions in the EVE Online community about the safety and wisdom in attending EVE Fanfest, then set to run...
SMITE discusses changes coming to its seventh esports season, previews Loki rework
SMITE esports has been going strong for six seasons now, and season seven is looking to make a number of changes to schedules, format,...
Massively Overthinking: How essential are hardcore gamers to an MMO’s health?
Last week, there was a positively eyebrow-raising thread on the Guild Wars 2 subreddit that tied neatly into the overall MMORPG meta discussion many...
