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FTC finalizes fine for Fortnite’s dark patterns as Epic talks up NFT ‘games’ on EGS

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Usually when people says things are going "pretty well," your first sympathetic instinct is to ask about what might be troubling them; those words...

Roblox confirms that it had $150M in Silicon Valley Bank, now shut down by regulators

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We would love to be in the kind of position where seeing millions of dollars disappear registers an "everything is fine" response. That looks...

Congress is very disappointed in gaming’s response to extremism in games as the ESA downplays the problem

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In mid-December, members of the US Congress sent signed letters to major game companies about what they're doing to combat the rise of online...

Microsoft and Unity collectively shed over 10,000 employees in latest round of tech layoffs

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Another round of layoffs are coming to both Microsoft and Unity. Both tech companies are dropping more employees from their respective workforces, with Unity...

G-Star 2020 will now be an all-digital event as a result of COVID-19

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G-Star, South Korea's biggest games industry show, has officially announced that it will be a fully digital affair for 2020 as a result of...

Activision-Blizzard hires two new corporate employees

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The corporate offices of Activision-Blizzard are welcoming two new faces in the form of a new chief marketing officer (which sounds like an ad...

US Federal Trade Commission outlines the agenda for a lootbox-related workshop on August 7

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Conversations, studies, and outright rancor over video game lockbox practices have caught the notice of several world governments as readers of MOP already know,...

Hi-Rez Studios announces the launch of UK-based Red Beard Games

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It looks like Hi-Rez Studios is making sure the plural in its name is relevant. The company announced the launch of Red Beard Games...

US Senator Bernie Sanders publicly offers support for game worker unionization

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That dull, wooden hammering you hear in the background is the attachment of planks to platforms. With the US 2020 presidential campaign season drawing...

Anti-lootbox Senator claims gaming lobbyists are getting worried; Nintendo pulls mobile titles from Belgium over lootboxes

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It's a day that ends in "y" and so that means some fresh lootbox-related news to share with you fine folks! First up is an...
More like real reality.

Zenimax’s Oculus lawsuit will proceed to trial

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Fans of the Oculus Rift might be disappointed to learn that judge Jorge Solis has rejected the motion to dismiss a lawsuit leveled against Oculus...
There's a musical joke here between the layoffs and the big musical showstopper of Frozen, but I'll let you make that one yourselves.

Disney’s Club Penguin suffers layoffs

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Club Penguin may not be one of the first games you think about when it comes to virtual worlds, but that's kind of a...
When leveling alts was already the plan...

WoW Factor: A self-defeating genre

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Remember when World of Warcraft launched? I sure do. I remember when the game's developers strapped into a helicopter and broke into the building...

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