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The gaming industry is in the midst of its own #MeToo moment, and one of the industry vets who stands accused is popular composer...

Last year, Kotaku published a brutal exposé of Riot Games’ culture, replete with sexual harassment and sexual discrimination problems. In response, Riot promised a...

This week I spent a bit of time perusing the Star Wars Galaxies Legends Discord, where candidates for the player Senate are making stump...

There are some MMO stories that are just unbelievable. They are so warped convoluted and confusing that we think there's no possible way it...

You folks remember 38 Studios, right? The studio at the heart of one of the most scandalous fiascos in the whole MMO genre? It's...

Lawsuits can be pretty long, but this one was a doozy. Let's review: In 2015, several ArcheAge players filed a class action lawsuit over...

Epic Games and Fortnite are not having the best week. First, according to Polygon, the company's been hit with a class-action lawsuit in North...

Previously on Lawful Neutral, we talked about currency and how video game companies try very hard to not be classified as a currency because...

Last weekend, we learned that the Electronic Software Association, the US's biggest video game lobby backed by some of the biggest companies in the...

Conversations, studies, and outright rancor over video game lockbox practices have caught the notice of several world governments as readers of MOP already know,...

Welcome back to another mish-mash roundup of MMO-business-related happenings that just don't fit in anywhere else. To wit: On game gambling: Remember the bizarrely bad...

I used to watch Spongebob religiously. I loved the days when I could put on Nickelodeon and have Spongebob on for hours. One of...

It sounds as if the UK is preparing for a bit of a crackdown on video game gambling of the third-party kind. According to...

Let's tell a story about one Amro Elansari, a player of RuneScape who was muted for undisclosed reasons (so almost certainly involving his being...

As I was writing our Lawful Neutral expose of Nerd Kingdom a few weeks ago, I was pretty bothered by the conduct of the...

The Jordanian government has announced that the country's Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) has officially banned PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. According to a report from Jordanian news...

We get so many tips about MMOs being DDOSed that we often don't even cover them unless they stretch on for days or there's...

Love conquers all -- except for Chinese gaming regulations, if the recently proposed rules for game content regulation come to pass. The People's Daily,...

Let's say your friend Trab is a terrible player, but you want him to be playing in a slightly higher bracket in Overwatch, so...

I hate being disappointed. I doubt I'm alone. In general, I try to temper my expectations and accept negative outcomes just as much as...