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Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO- and MMO-adjacent games industry news! First, let's talk about Clyde. He's got a bit of a makeover. Discord:...

Considering how popular and heavily used Discord is to MMO players, there were plenty of concerned and interested eyes turning to a proposed deal...

Remember when Discord servers weren't basically the foundation of every single video game community online? Those were good times. It also meant that people...

It's been a few months since Microsoft acquired all of ZeniMax Media's studios to the tune of $7.5 billion back in September of last...

There are a lot of things that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all disagree about. Which company gets your money, for example. But a new...

As the news of Microsoft's acquisition of ZeniMax Media, Bethesda Softworks, and its various studios has settled in, there's been one niggling point that's...

The release of Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Series S systems has reportedly been one of the largest for the company, at least according...

It may not be a good idea to base all of your hopes and dreams on Halo Infinite at this point in time. It...

The ongoing kaiju-sized hand-slapping fight between Epic Games and Apple isn't just about two massive corporations having a hissy fit over money; it's tangentially...

Update: We've been updating the end of this piece with all the online gaming studio statements we can find this week. Sony has apparently decided...

If you're one of the many, many would-be Phantasy Star Online 2 fans waiting eagerly for news about the game's PC release, you have...

Well, here's a game we weren't expecting to have on our radar, but these are strange times indeed. So with that in mind, let's...

Don't call it hiding anything, just call it select data provisioning! Electronic Arts COO and CFO Blake Jorgensen has said that future earnings reports...

So if you missed the news due to it generally being shrug-worthy, it turns out that Sony has decided to skip out on E3...

One of the big surprises of 2019 - and also one of the most welcome ones - was the revelation that Phantasy Star Online...

We're familiar with the ways that online games, even generally rather innocent ones like Minecraft, can wind up being breeding grounds for some of...

Let me tell you something: As the columnist who writes about Final Fantasy XIV I am so damn tired of hearing about crossplay. Seriously. Just so...

The real world and the world of Minecraft -- or at least its general sense of collaborative building -- have combined with the early...

Jean-Paul Sartre's play "No Exit" provided us with the phrase "Hell is other people," and if you've dared to leave your mic or chat...

Microsoft seems to be branching out with its game distribution policies, as it announced this week that it will be working to make more...