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The Stream Team: A first-timer’s early steps into the Myth of Empires

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It's been a long, winding, weird, and litigious road, but Myth of Empires has made it to a Steam release, and MOP's Chris is...

Activision faces $680M lawsuit from Call of Duty esports pros over allegedly monopolist tourney terms

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The way in which Activision has been managing its esports tournaments for Call of Duty is now undergoing legal scrutiny, as last week saw...

NCsoft updates EULAs for Lineage II, Aion, and Blade & Soul as part of move to Purple

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At the top of February we reported on NCsoft's decision to migrate many of its MMOs to its bespoke Purple platform, specifically affecting Blade...

Genshin Impact takes cheat makers to court for copyright infringement

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You have to be a special sort of sad to want to cheat in a game like Genshin Impact, let alone one who would...

RuneScape’s Jagex confirms it’s being sold for the fourth time in eight years as it talks up ‘forever games’

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Rumors from earlier this week that suggested RuneScape company Jagex was once again for sale have now been proven correct, thanks to a formal...
It's all the money we don't have!

Microsoft insists Activision-Blizzard was planning on mass layoffs before the merger

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As we've been covering, earlier this week the FTC filed a complaint to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, alleging that Microsoft misrepresented itself...
Hmm. Appears I'm still alive.

Korean Court rules man isn’t a conscientious objector because he likes PUBG

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We admit that the headline for this story is pretty wild, so allow us a few moments to lay some contextual groundwork: South Korea...
WHOOPS

FTC files a complaint against Microsoft following Activision Blizzard layoffs

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When Microsoft outlined its plans for what would happen following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, one of the things that the company stated was...
Dead impact.

RuneScape’s Jagex is apparently being sold yet again, this time to a private equity firm for over $1B

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Stop me if you've heard this one: RuneScape company Jagex is for sale yet again. Back in September, we first caught the rumor that Jagex's...

Myth of Empires’ epic new trailer teases biomes, building construction, and warfare

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Having put its legal quibbles with Studio Wildcard and Smilegate behind it, strategy-sandbox MMO Myth of Empires is heading to its launch this month...

MMO Business Roundup: Krafton likes AI, Call of Duty moderation, and German lockbox regulation push

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. We've got a lot to cover, so let's dive right in. Krafton pushes AI...

Nexon’s preliminary injunction against Dark and Darker was dismissed, but the lawsuit presses on

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One of last year's more distinct stories was related to the medieval fantasy PvPvE extraction RPG Dark and Darker and megacorp Nexon: Readers may...

City of Heroes players filled Homecoming’s latest $8.6K monthly donation round in three hours

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When NCsoft granted Homecoming LLC a license to operate City of Heroes at the top of January, one of the questions a lot of...

Former Bungie legal exec: ‘The company will never love you back, but if you let it, it’ll kill you’

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Among the workers affected by Bungie's round of layoffs last October was former chief legal officer Don McGowan, who was the man heading the...
I mean, kind of by default, but...

Fortnite is coming back to iPhone in EU because Europe said so

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It's been a few years -- since 2020, in fact -- since the snit fit between Apple and Epic began, provoking the former to...

Palworld tops 2M concurrency on Steam as the Pokémon company ‘intends to investigate’

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When we started 2024, I don't think any of us had "bizarre Pokémon shooter was going to blow up huge in January," but, well,...

Legal experts weigh in on Palworld plagiarism accusations as player and sales numbers continue to climb

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Pocketpair's creature-featured survivalbox Palworld continues to make waves across the wider gaming sphere, both in terms of wanted and unwanted attention. The game has...
SHIP IT

Vague Patch Notes: What City of Heroes Homecoming means for the wider MMORPG industry

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As you have probably noticed from the fact that I have been writing about City of Heroes nonstop since the Homecoming server got its...

Epic and Apple appeals are rejected by the Supreme Court, making the original 2021 ruling final

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The past few years' worth of gaming news have been something of a whirlwind to say the least, so let us take a moment...

Star Citizen’s CIG was hit with a measly $190 fine for… not filing its 2022 financial report on time

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"If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class," so sayeth the meme, and that...

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