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League of Legends Chinese pro esports league suspends events over spreading coronavirus

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If you've somehow missed all the news about the growing coronavirus epidemic, we'll forgive you - it's been a wild news week in the...

MMO Business Roundup: Guild Wars’ art book, Day of Dragons drama, Red Dead hackers, FogBank layoffs, and more

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news! Guild Wars' art book: If you happened to read our swag guide ahead of...

EVE Online spools up the hype for EVE Fanfest 2020

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It's nearly time to "party at the top of the world" as EVE Online puts it. EVE Fanfest 2020, probably the greatest time of...
We wouldn't want to assail your dignity.

Fortnite bans certain actions in competitive play to avoid cheating

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Good news, Fortnite players, you can be issued a ban for jumping during competitive play! Sort of, anyhow. See, Fortnite really doesn't want players signaling to...
Draconic!

Watch Elder Scrolls Online’s global reveal of The Dark Heart of Skyrim and 2020 content plans

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UpdateThe keynote is over now - check out our full recap right here! Today's the big day for The Elder Scrolls Online, as ZeniMax Online...
La la la la la la ~ ♪

Blizzard announces ESL Pro Tours for StarCraft II and Warcraft III Reforged, expanded Hearthstone Masters Tours

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It looks like Blizzard esports and ESL/DreamHack are holding hands together very tightly. A number of announcements relating to the 2020 esports seasons of...

SuperData says the premium games market took a ‘gap year’ in 2019

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If you tire of all the end-of-the-year content and roundups on our site and many others, then you're not going to like SuperData's either,...

League of Legends’ first female championship series competitor dies at age 24

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In sudden and sad esports news, League of Legends player Maria “Remilia” Creveling died this past Friday at the age of 24. Remilia was...

Fight or Kite: 2010-2019, the decade when PvP boomed and MMOs languished

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The end of the decade is upon us. Many are now reflecting on how our lives have changed over the past 10 years. We’ve...

Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2019 predictions

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The day has come: the day when we look back at last year's predictions for this year and see how we did. Yep, this...
Well, thanks anyhow.

The Elder Scrolls Online is announcing its next major chapter in January

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The time-honored announcement of a future announcement is here now for The Elder Scrolls Online, as the developers have announced that the game's next major...

MMO Business Roundup: Amazon, gaming toxicity research, Blizzard’s court victory, and why people love Mike Morhaime

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Business business business! We're back for another speedy Friday afternoon roundup of some MMO and games industry business news. Amazon's next big thing We're not sure...

Activision-Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick downplays the role of politics in games

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Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick clearly doesn't fear the Blizzard boycott that is still technically ongoing following Blizzard's October decision to penalize a Hearthstone esports...
Oh my.

J. Allen Brack says the Blitzchung incident ‘exposed some immaturity’ in Blizzard

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It's a bit long in the tooth now with BlizzCon well behind us, but the Esports Observer published an interview with Blizzard's J. Allen...
And chill.

British Esports Association aims to increase ‘female esports players at the top level’

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If you'd like to see more ladies kicking butt and taking names in esports like Xiaomeng "VKLiooon" Li did at the Hearthstone Grandmasters final...

Sea of Thieves talks about a new Arena weekend event and the Battle for London esports competition

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It's just not a complete week unless I get my Sea of Thieves developer update starring executive producer Joe Neate. Let's just get comfy,...

A prominent FIFA competitor blows the lid off of a match fixing scandal involving several pro gamers

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Imagine if several major teams from any large-scale sport in America -- take your pick -- conspired together to make sure they didn't face...

Activision-Blizzard Q3 2019: Revenues sink for the third quarter in a row

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Activision-Blizzard has not had the best year. In February, the company saw record-high revenues and promptly laid off 800 employees, leading to widespread condemnation....

BlizzCon protesters remain unmoved by Blizzard apology as industry groups propose unified esports principles

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If anyone was curious, no, many of the folks who protested BlizzCon live and in the flesh were not swayed by Blizzard President J....

Even some Hearthstone devs thought Blizzard overreacted in the Hearthstone fiasco

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I'm willing to bet most people here had never heard of Blitzchung until a month ago when Blizzard and its compilation of allied companies...

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