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Hate groups are getting deleted from Steam… if they’re overt enough
It's fair to say at this point that Steam is an enormous part of the PC gaming market. It's also fair to say that...
GoVenture World takes the MMO to business school
After you've put in a long day in your cubicle working for The Man, why not come home, kick off your shoes, and unwind...
Citadel Studios and Nexon are recruiting talent
If studio job postings get your blood pumping with the thoughts of what could be, here are a couple of tantalizing tidbits that perhaps...
Rumor: Disney eyes Ubisoft and Activision to take over Star Wars video game IP
Raise your hand if you're a little tired of Electronic Arts' handling of the Star Wars video game franchise since its acquisition in 2013....
Black Desert’s Kakao Games enjoys $131.6 million in investment
It's all coming up Kakao Games these days.
The Korean studio received a large investment package recently that totals $131.6 million. The bundle comes from...
Steam terminates its relationship with MMO company Insel Games over alleged review manipulation
It's really unusual to see publishers outright booted off of Steam, but Valve has done exactly that to Insel Games following reports of review...
Amazon’s New World seeks a software development manager
Despite coming onto the scene with a flurry of prospective titles, Amazon Game Studios has yet to really make a great impression on the...
Western gamers start petition to save Paragon while Chinese players await info
It shouldn't really need to be said, but Paragon has fans. You may not love it yourself, but there are a lot of fans...
Crowfall’s Raph Koster goes into insane depth on the cost of creating video games
If you have an exceptional memory, you might recall that a couple of months ago, Crowfall and Star Wars Galaxies designer Raph Koster wrote...
Amazon’s New World page is back again [Updated]
On Monday of last week, we reported that a video of the anticipated and rather mysterious New World from Amazon had been leaked... and...
Why developers believe abusive vitriol is the cost of doing business with games
When is it appropriate to send verbal abuse to someone you don't know personally? When is it appropriate to tell someone that you hope...
EA filed an ‘Engagement Optimized Matchmaking’ patent in 2016
Remember Activision's rather skeezy matchmaking patent from last year? That one was pretty straightforward in how it worked, if unpleasant: You buy something from...
LawBreakers is the weak link in Nexon’s Q3 2017 financial results
Here's the good news for Nexon's Q3 2017 investor call: The company had a good set of third-quarter results overall, and it has a...
Rumor: Blizzard’s next title involves vehicles and may be an Overwatch spinoff
There's a title under development at Blizzard that's been hiring for a while now, but no one actually knows what it is. So when...
New Zealand declares lootboxes not gambling under the law
Are lootboxes gambling? It seems like such a simple question, but it really isn't simple from a legal or ethical standpoint, and the answer...
Half of the LawBreakers founding team has left the studio
The face of LawBreakers development and Boss Key is arguably Cliff Bleszinski, but Arjan Brussee was co-founder of the studio and half of the...
Clicker Heroes dev on abandoning the free-to-play model for the sequel
If you've never played Clicker Heroes, you can pick it up for your phone or on Steam right now; it's a lightweight little idle...
Raph Koster on the cost of making games from the industry side
All of this talk about the price of making games and the price of playing games thanks to Star Wars: Battlefront II has meant...
Steam continues reviews system tinkering to thwart spam
Steam has been doubling down on addressing review problems lately, starting with its attempt to counter review bombing. This has been a good thing,...
PlayerUnknown thinks PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds doesn’t deserve game of the year
Did you know that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is up for a Game of the Year award? Probably not, because... like, there are a lot of...