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Halo Infinite gets Skyrim’s Whiterun as a player-created map
Hey, you. You're finally awake. We thought we'd lost you in a horrible nightmare; you just kept rolling over and mumbling how Skyrim is...
Here’s how items, mounts, and weapons are designed and implemented in Final Fantasy XIV
Every item you see in Final Fantasy XIV - every weapon your character equips, every mount you ride on, every minion you get to...
Square-Enix’s Yosuke Matsuda is still all-in on blockchain and NFTs even after 2022
You might think that after watching the steady erosion and collapse of blockchain and NFTs in general and in the gaming space after 2022,...
The Division 2 is coming to Steam on January 12
If you've been refusing to pick up The Division 2 until it arrived on Steam... well, goodness, you've been waiting a while. We applaud...
The Daily Grind: When has an MMO surprised you with its success?
I was right there for the whole thing - the initial launch, the change in management, the relaunch - but I never really expected...
The FTC is moving to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard
Some things are just not surprising, and the FTC deciding that it wants to block the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft is one such...
Activision-Blizzard releases its year-to-date diversity statistics showing an increase in underrepresented groups
Activision-Blizzard's general issues with diversity and representation have prompted a number of changes within its corporate structure, and one of those is the company's...
National Labor Relations Board denies Activision-Blizzard’s attempt to freeze Albany QA workers’ union vote
While this might have seemed like a Sisyphean effort on the part of Activision-Blizzard, it's still always good to know when flagrant unionbusting efforts...
MMO veteran Scott Hartsman discusses why overseas game publishing is so messy
All right, so Blizzard and Netease are no longer working together for publishing the former studio's games in China. That's significant, but it should...
Crowfall is going offline on November 22, supposedly for further development work
Since Crowfall was purchased in December of last year, the news coming out of the game has been minimal at best. So today's announcement...
Leaderboard: Has the gaming community ‘beaten’ NFTs?
I have to give this article in Bloomberg a lot of props for being something you don't see very often: a piece touting the...
Fractured Online disables new purchases for players in Asian countries, posts new survey
Players who want to play Fractured Online but live in Japan are going to have a harder time at this point, as Dynamight Studios...
Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier is shutting down in January after less than a year of operation
It's apparently the season for Square-Enix to cut loose its various online games that are severely underperforming, as Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier...
CEO of Platinum Games on Babylon’s Fall: ‘Live service games are definitely something we do want to do’
Ultimately, Babylon's Fall went about as badly as a live-service game could conceivably go. It launched to poor reviews and reception, never convinced a...
Discord adds new forum channels feature to community channels
So you probably don't like having to subscribe to a game's Discord channel and go trawling through pinned posts and asking people just to...
Babylon’s Fall is shutting down on February 27
It turns out that building a looter-shooter that is more of a looter-slasher is harder than it looks. Square-Enix and Platinum Games' Babylon's Fall...
Bethesda and id software turn on old official servers for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Back in the day, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was a team-based FPS that a lot of people really enjoyed playing. Some people enjoyed it so...
The Daily Grind: What’s the MMO grudge you’ve held on to the longest?
I know people who are still, to this day, angry about a balance change made in Final Fantasy XI that changed how TP was...
Ubisoft delays sunsetting some online games – including Anno 2070
Ubisoft has an ongoing habit of launching games with online components and then turning those online components off when the games get old enough,...
NetEase snaps up Detroit Become Human developer Quantic Dream
Like a person going grocery shopping, NetEase is casually strolling up and down the aisles of the video game industry deciding which studio to...
