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MMO Business Roundup: Unionbusting, Kakao, sportswashing, DDOS attacks, plagiarism, and PUBG
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO- and MMO-adjacent industry news. I'm sorry.
Raven Software: The internal Activision studio that saw first a strike and...
Riot Games adds multi-factor auth, a new champion to League of Legends, muted words feature to Valorant
Riot Games is all up in our news business this week, with several headlines coming out of the studio for its multiplayer games. Here's...
Acti-Blizz buyout, day two: Labor, stock, Kotick, and the reasons behind the sale
The news has been flying fast and furious over the last 24 hours since Microsoft announced it was buying Activision-Blizzard for just under $70B....
Myth of Empires skirts the Steam DMCA takedown by selling the game directly
Apparently, Myth of Empires developer Angela Game is not going to let a little thing like being taken off of Steam and sued for...
2016 lawsuit over CS:GO skin gambling gets thrown out on a technicality
The slow, grinding gears of the legal system has finally yielded a verdict in the last of a series of CS:GO lawsuits from 2016....
Riot Games lays out five-year plan, partial ownership for employees
Yesterday, Riot Games' Nicolo Laurent released a length letter to workers and gamers, essentially outlining what the next five years of Riot will look...
Back in 2017, a pair of cops were fired for playing Pokemon Go on duty
I think we've already got a contender for "worst MMO criming" for 2022, or we would've if it hadn't happened back in 2017 and...
California DFEH appeals court denial to intervene in Activision-Blizzard’s EEOC settlement
California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing is not about to call it quits on fighting Activision-Blizzard's settlement with the US's Equal Employment Opportunity...
The Daily Grind: Who told the biggest MMO-related fib of 2021?
I would really like to hear about people other than Bobby Kotick because he's the obvious answer in my book.
Since July, we listened to...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2021
As the year that was 2021 comes to a close -- raise a glass, give a toast, and perhaps think of a few fond...
Snail Games fires back at Myth of Empires’ lawsuit with countersuits of its own
In the middle of last December, Myth of Empires studio Angela Game fired off a lawsuit against Snail Games and Studio Wildcard, demanding that...
Riot Games will settle sexual discrimination lawsuit for $100M and then some
We’ve been poking at the dumpster fire inside League of Legends company Riot Games ever since 2018, when Kotaku’s expose of workplace conditions was...
CD Projekt Red agrees to a $1.85M settlement to close out Cyberpunk 2077 investor lawsuit
It looks like the end of 2021 is also signaling the end of CD Projekt Red's legal kerfuffle with its investors over Cyberpunk 2077....
Myth of Empires studio seeks to take Studio Wildcard and Snail Games to court over Steam DMCA takedown
As MMO early access launches go, the release of Myth of Empires has certainly been the weirdest. First arriving to our radar at the...
The MOP Up: Trove’s polished paragon paradise
Trove is making sure that its players have plenty to do this season thanks to a Polished Paragon system. This patch came out on...
Activision-Blizzard execs attempt to ward off incipient workers union
With Activision-Blizzard workers organizing, striking, fundraising, and working toward unionization and ATVI stock falling 40% following what has now been five months of scandal...
Survival strategy MMO Myth of Empires is delisted on Steam over copyright infringement allegations
At the end of November we cast a spotlight on the recent Steam early access launch of the game Myth of Empires, a combination...
Activision-Blizzard fields new accusations as workers strike, fundraise, and issue union cards
The thumbscrews around Activision-Blizzard and Bobby Kotick tightened that much more yesterday when a current employee of the company, identified only as Christine, held...
Roblox sues toxic player for $1.6M over ‘terrorist threats’ and ‘targeted harassment’ of employees and players
Benjamin Robert Simon, otherwise known as Ruben Sim online, is being taken to court by the devs of Roblox. A suit was filed against...
Sony Interactive Entertainment is hit with a lawsuit alleging gender discrimination
This past Monday, a female former IT analyst for Sony Interactive Entertainment filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that she was the victim...
