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Valve is eliminating Dota 2 battle passes because almost nobody was buying them
A common refrain that's used to fight against unwanted monetization is "speak with your wallet" - ie don't buy a thing you dislike. That...
Riot Games and pro League of Legends esports players reach compromise to end strike
At the end of May, we covered a disturbance in the Riot Games League of Legends esports community: Riot had slashed the North American...
Genshin Impact plans esports invitational centered around the Genius Invokation TCG
Genshin Impact and esports isn't exactly a pairing one would consider from the outside looking in, particularly since the title's primary gameplay loop is...
Activision-Blizzard offers (some) hard numbers on its harassment and discrimination problem
Within the Variety puff piece on Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick earlier this week, Kotick insisted that the volumes of harassment accusations against the company...
Riot Games and League of Legends esports pros lock horns over fate of North American league
Following Riot Games' announcement of its plan to reduce the North American Challenger's League for League of Legends esports down to only seven teams...
The MOP Up: Magic the Gathering Arena jumps the gun on Steam
While we were all led to believe that Magic the Gathering Arena was coming to Steam this fall -- mostly because investors were told...
The MOP Up: World War II Online focuses on rebuilding squads
"Squads" are the watchword of World War II Online as of late, with Cornered Rats pouring more effort into bolstering this group makeup in...
Interview: Spellcraft’s game director on the first public alpha and its intense gameplay
A good weekend is in store for anyone who loves to play the latest, hottest, fresh-off-the-press-est multiplayer games the moment they pop up. That's...
US Department of Justice and Activision-Blizzard reach a settlement over an esports salary lawsuit
It would apparently not be enough for Activision-Blizzard to treat its employees poorly; it also has been found to treat those who compete in...
ARK’s Survival of the Fittest battle royale mode finally arrives to console players
Studio Wildcard seems to be of the mindset that everything is better with dinosaurs. That's the only conclusion we can draw when it created...
World of Warcraft’s 2023 Mythic Dungeon International esports event begins this weekend with Dragonflight dungeons in tow
It's part speedrunning, part esports event, and all World of Warcraft dungeons. It's the 2023 season of the Mythic Dungeon International, which is set...
The Soapbox: Subscriptions might actually be the next big innovation in digital card games
What started earlier this week as a rant on how bad an idea a subscription model in Hearthstone would be evolved into something more:...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has an esports push but really, really shouldn’t?
Our long-time readers will know that I consider esports as anything but a net benefit for games, the video game industry in general, and...
WoW Factor: Brian Birmingham’s ousting and the ever-deepening rot at Blizzard
Talking about this company is always so exhausting, but let's do a quick recap: Brian Birmingham was, up until recently, one of the top...
Blizzard polls players about a Hearthstone sub as it scales back esports
We begin this article by noting right up front that Blizzard is terribly fond of floating bad ideas in surveys and then saying, Ha...
Star Citizen’s player-run Daymar Rally wraps up, CIG preps Squadron 42 monthly report and returning videos
The Star Citizen community went racing at the end of last week with its 2023 edition of the Daymar Rally, a player-run rally racing...
Riot Games lays off 46 workers, adding to this month’s tech toll
Riot Games is the latest games industry megacorp to issue layoffs this week, though they're smaller in number than the thousands of workers shed...
SMITE unveils a Magic The Gathering crossover, a new god, and the Season of Monsters for January 24
Ten years is a major milestone for any game, but it seems a significantly bigger one for MOBAs as very few of them appear...
Documents outline a multi-million dollar US Army recruitment campaign using influencers and Call of Duty
Apparently, the United States Army is eager to find any number of "creative" ways to get younger people to enlist. Documents obtained by Vice...
Temtem enters the esports arena with the launch of the Temtem Championship Series
One of the features of Temtem's recent PvP-centric update was the addition of tournament formation, which would let the critter catching MMO kick off...
