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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...
The MOP Up: SWTOR spins a Bounty Hunter yarn
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, it was nearly your bedtime and Star Wars: The Old Republic sat down next...
The Daily Grind: Should the MMO genre take another stab at esports?
A few years ago, there was a concerted push in the MMO genre to design, amplify, and boost esports, and I don't just mean...
League of Legends introduces its newest character K’sante and details this year’s ranked season rewards
We're still a few weeks away from League of Legends' big esports hullabaloo, but that's not stopping the MOBA from offering up video previews...
Overwatch League opens up new initiatives to recruit more diverse players and broadcasting talent
You can either look at this as the Overwatch League trying to increase the diversity of its pool of talent, or the league's scrambling...
G2 Esports loses bid to join Valorant’s league thanks to the org’s CEO partying with a flagrant misogynist
If you've heard of the esports organization G2 Esports recently, it may very well be for all of the wrong reasons. The Berlin-based org...
Riot Games and Lil Nas X release music video for the League of Legends Worlds 2022 anthem Star Walkin’
The "president of League" and superstar rapper Lil Nas X has delivered on one of the promised portions of his collaboration with League of...
Riot Games names Lil Nas X president of League of Legends in a new collaboration for Worlds 2022
What do the MOBA League of Legends and superstar rapper Lil Nas X have in common? On the surface, not much, but that's not...
Legends of Runeterra’s roadmap heralds the arrival of the Darkin Saga’s new events and champions
Legends of Runeterra's content plans for the remaining four months of 2022 and a little bit of 2023 have all been mapped out, and...
World of Warcraft announces two new esports events for September
Those who love their PvE or PvP esports events and World of Warcraft are going to be getting more of what they crave this...
Perfect Ten: The MMO studios that keep whiffing on new projects
Everyone makes mistakes, and that's all right. That's not necessarily a big deal. Yes, this is true when it comes to MMO studios too....
