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Sea of Thieves arrives to the Battle.net launcher on May 22 in three different bundles
Access to the Sea of Thieves is going to be expanding yet again on Thursday, May 22nd, when the FFA PvP pirating sandbox makes...
ZeniMax Workers United, the Fallout and Elder Scrolls QA union, has voted to authorize a strike
"Hundreds" of games workers at ZeniMax Media have voted to authorize a strike against parent company Microsoft after "nearly" two years of negotiations, according...
Microsoft backtracks on its idea to use its generative AI Copilot to help Overwatch 2 players get good
Welcome to the age when gaming companies have constructed entire AI departments that are desperate to prove themselves relevant. That's why Microsoft was pushing...
MMO Business Roundup: Ubisoft’s latest corporate chaos and new accusations from the voice actors union
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. This week, Ubisoft's getting double the coverage because it's news so nice they're...
Sea of Thieves prepares for a March full of anniversary celebration – and a Solitaire collab
How many years have you been adrift on the Sea of Thieves? Seven now, and March is going to be a month all about...
Microsoft execs claim its Muse AI tool is a way to preserve games and akin to CGI’s impact on films
Microsoft would really, really like it if the entire world would adopt its newly revealed Muse AI tool, a so-called World and Human Action...
Vague Patch Notes: How long do online games truly get to live?
I'm going to start this article by asking a question I don't actually want an answer to: How long has Minecraft been popular?
Objectively there...
World of Warcraft has likely made millions from its $90 pay-to-win dino mount
Last October, World of Warcraft elected to celebrate its 20th anniversary by selling a $90 mount with mail and auction house features baked in....
Elder Scrolls Legends has officially sunsetted after years of lingering in maintenance mode
Back in November, we covered the sad news that multiplayer CCG Elder Scrolls Legends was truly doomed. After siloing the game off under a...
Microsoft dispels World of Warcraft Game Pass rumors sparked by its own marketing email snafu
When Microsoft spent billions to buy out Activision-Blizzard (and then carved that cost out of the hide of its workforce), many gamers were salivating...
Lawful Neutral: All the big MMO-related law stories from 2024, from Palworld to Blizzard
2024 was another quiet year on the gaming legal front. I think various AI dramas and associated legislative hand-wringing sucked all the air out...
Notch isn’t making a Minecraft spiritual successor after all, apparently
For an entire generation of kids and gamers, Minecraft has become one of the most beloved, played, and franchised titles in history. So yes,...
The Daily Grind: What was the biggest MMO trainwreck nobody noticed last year?
Every year, we elevate certain stories with awards - we pluck out the biggest surprise, the most exciting story, the story we wish we...
Finally: Co-op looter-shooter Wayfinder arrives on Xbox on January 28
It's been a bit of a wait for Wayfinder fans who do their video gaming on Xbox Series X|S to get their hands on...
Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson claims he’s ‘basically’ working on Minecraft 2
It is probably a true statement that at this point, Minecraft as a video game exists in a class of cultural relevance by itself,...
The Daily Grind: Which game or studio made the biggest contribution to killing the MMORPG genre in 2024?
So here's another fun annual Daily Grind that always gets people good and angry. And believe it or not, I'm not going to nominate...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024
So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
Blizzard’s 2024 infographic is light on useful info, but gamers did play 8.34B hours in Blizz games this year
Blizzard president Johanna Faries penned a dev blog to the Blizzard community last night, with kind words for players and developers alongside one of...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Happy holidays: 461 Elder Scrolls Online studio developers just unionized
Bethsoft has one union, yes. What about *second* union? In fact, this is more like third union, and we're not sorry to see it.
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