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Warcraft 3: Reforged is now apparently offering instant refunds with no official statement from Blizzard
Fortunately for Blizzard, after the not-great launch of Warcraft III: Reforged, everything blew over... by which we mean things got significantly worse, to the point of...
Escape from Tarkov confirms no playable female characters because of ‘game lore’ and workload
Sorry, ladies, but it's just too ding-dong-dang difficult to put y'all in Escape from Tarkov. That's the cited reason why the game's developer, Battlestate Games,...
Goodbye to all the reasons we can’t have nice things in MMOs, 2019 edition
A while back, we started collecting all our cozy, comforting, positive, happy stories under the "warm fuzzies" tag. This year, we turned it into...
Chronicles of Elyria postpones its unsold land sales with a date still to be determined
As you may recall, Chronicles of Elyria touted that it was running a big event recently with its "Settlers of Elyria" event, which came...
Google and Epic Games are squabbling over Fortnite’s Android fees – again
Epic Games and Google are butting heads in what continues to be the technology version of a DragonBall Z fight with similar levels of...
US Congressman uses campaign funds for Steam games, man allegedly uses PS4 to sell cocaine
I'm not one to provide a counterpoint to the delight that is Massively Uplifting, but there are also times when video gaming news gets...
An MMO character ‘worth’ $1.4M was sold in China for $552
So here's a fun story of people being particularly... odd. Let's go with odd. Player A, hereafter referred to as "Scrooge McDuck," spends the...
Stadia holds an AMA that confirms a laundry list of features that won’t be available at launch
Well, at least they were honest? Members of the Google Stadia team took to Reddit for an AMA that gleefully revealed a significant chunk...
UK art studio accuses Kickstarted MMORPG Oath of incompetence and failure to pay for work
Last spring, we covered an incredibly ambitious new MMO called Oath. Developer Ready-Up Studios rolled out a $35,000-ask Kickstarter to build a free-to-play, action-combat...
Blizzard dev says there’s no internal comms over Hong Kong fiasco: ‘It’s pulling our teams apart at the seams’
Blizzard has yet to publicly respond to the widespread outrage over its decision to ban professional Hearthstone player Blitzchung following his statement of support for...
A World of Warcraft LGBT guild has been forced to change its name
Given the fact that this week has been shining a harsh spotlight on Blizzard's enormous mistake over a Hong Kong Hearthstone player, you would think...
Washington man charged with theft of $40,000 of games and equipment from Valve headquarters
In 2018, there was a break-in at Valve's offices in Bellevue, WA. Some 15 Xbox One and 23 PlayStation 4 games, between 15-20 Asus...
Australian police are investigating crimes linked to an Overwatch esports team
The obvious old joke to be made was that if esports were real sports, they'd be linked to organized crime. Alas, the joke no longer...
EA’s infamous ‘sense of pride and accomplishment’ post now holds a Guinness record – for Reddit downvotes
By now, we're all familiar with the 2017 comment by EA about how lootboxes provide "a sense of pride and accomplishment." The remark was...
New Frontier updates former Wild West Online players on its relationship to Free Reign Entertainment
Ah, those delirious moments when every new set of answers about the state of a game's publisher just leads to a new set of...
New Frontier launches on Steam with the publisher that supposedly was not connected to the game
Oh boy. Oh, boy. So you all remember Wild West Online, right? Survival sandbox that launched in much the same way that having a...
Overwatch’s next hero is not Sojourn, but a lot of people wish she were
You all remember how people were a little bit miffed about the introduction of Wrecking Ball/Hammond into the Overwatch lineup, right? To summarize very quickly,...
Two weeks after Activision Blizzard’s layoffs, its stock price is barely higher than before the layoffs
You all remember when Activision Blizzard laid off 800 employees on a year that was, on balance, a very good year for the company?...
The UK’s Fortnite Live event is another convention giving you a free hour in the ball pit; Epic Games takes organizers to court
Let's be real, the disaster of Fortnite Live in the UK is not on par with DashCon or Fyre Festival. There will not be...
Roblox appears to have banned PewDiePie’s name
You probably already know of Felix Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie. If you don't... well, PewDiePie exists, he shrieks a lot while playing video...
