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PlanetSide 2 studio Toadman was hit with some nasty layoffs and studio closures this month
A few weeks back, Daybreak's Enad Global 7 announced that it was laying off a chunk of its subsidiary Toadman Interactive and closing down...
Concord devs anticipate layoffs as Sony moves their director to a ‘support role’
The sad story of the team vs. team hero shooter Concord doesn't appear to simply stop at the game being killed after roughly two...
Microsoft inflates its stock price through a $60B buyback of shares in the shadow of 650 layoffs
Corporate America has once again proven itself to be the full mask-off villain it's lampooned as: After a memo found that Microsoft was preparing...
Ubisoft broadens return-to-office mandate in spite of last year’s blowback over Ubisoft Montreal’s implementation
What do you do when you really want to lay off the people doing all the work at your company, but you also don't...
How hyper investment and greed led to the games industry’s ‘GaaSacre’ and downward slump
Hindsight is always 20/20, and no more is that axiom more appropriate than a look back at how the gaming industry got to the...
Microsoft is laying off yet another batch of games division workers – 650 this time
A Microsoft memo leaked to the press today heralds another round of layoffs at the company's games division: Microsoft Xbox boss Phil Spencer informed...
Former Sony exec suggests breadless game devs eat cake, Ubisoft investor demands more layoffs
You know, if you let gaming execs talk long enough, they all but hang themselves without your having to do anything - at least,...
APB Reloaded’s New Horizon launch party saw 1000 concurrent players
Earlier this month, we were surprised but please to report that Little Orbit's APB Reloaded was getting a juicy new update, its first in...
The Soapbox: Feeling the FOMO effect of positive MMO news
It was the other week that I saw the very unexpected headline right here on MOP: "Daybreak bought Palia studio Singularity 6 and aims...
Overwatch 2 dates Season 12 for August 20, Warcraft Rumble previews content coming in Season 8
The seasons continue to roll through Overwatch 2 and Warcraft Rumble, with both games readying their next respective seasons that bring new characters and...
MMO Business Roundup: Sony, SEGA, and Square-Enix drop a mixed bag of quarterly financials
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news - this time 'round, it's all about quarterly financial reports.
Square-Enix:Â Square saw another broad...
APB Reloaded preps New Horizon patch with new F2P content and anti-cheat tech
Little Orbit has major plans for APB Reloaded on deck - and we don't just mean sunsetting the console version. Version 1.31, dubbed New...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 479: The MMO that must not be named
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, World of Warcraft, Bungie, Ashes of Creation, and Guild Wars 2, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and SWG Legends.
Bungie scraps Destiny spinoff Payback, shifts away from expansions for Destiny 2
Last April, a Redditor who claims to have connections with former Bungie devs raised a few eyebrows with initial details of a Destiny 3-style...
Insiders say Bungie’s latest layoffs were an inevitable result of over-promising execs
It was already assumed that layoffs of 220 workers that hit Destiny 2 developer Bungie were a result of executive mismanagement, but now there...
Destiny 2 studio Bungie lays off another 220 workers, ending work on multiple games
Bungie is conducting yet another round of massive layoffs today. The Destiny 2 studio announced the elimination of 220 jobs, around 17% of the...
Activision-Blizzard artists express anxiety and disgust as the studio foists AI tools on existing workers
Like it or not, AI tools are proliferating throughout gamedev, and the human cost is already being showcased. According to reporting from Wired, which...
Blizzard’s World of Warcraft team just formed a wall-to-wall multidisciplinary WoWGG union
Man, it's been a long, long time coming, but Blizzard Entertainment workers have finally formed a wall-to-wall union, specifically meaning that it includes everyone...
Riot Games was reportedly working on a Smash Bros-style League of Legends platform brawler
What would happen if you blended together the platform brawling of Super Smash Bros. with the character roster of League of Legends? You would...
Layoffs have once again impacted workers at Ubisoft and Microsoft
We have the unfortunate duty to report that layoffs in the gaming industry don't appear to be abating anytime soon, as there are new...
