mmo business
Lawful Neutral: Managing toxicity in the MMO industry
When I'm playing games, I make a lot of use of the reporting function. If I see a moonkin zerg farming a spot in...
MMO Business Roundup: Clockwork Labs’ sandbox startup, NPIXEL, LOTRO’s community, and more
Welcome back to another quickie roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Clockwork Labs: Brand-new indie game studio Clockwork Labs has raised...
Lawful Neutral: Defining toxicity in the MMO industry
One of my earliest memories from World of Warcraft isn't really a positive one. It was in back in the Wrath days. My guild...
MMO Business Roundup: Chicken Drumstick, 9000 zombies, Valorant Mobile, Pantheon hiring, Secret World’s novels
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Chicken Drumstick: Yes, I'm afraid this is a real thing. Vice's Motherboard...
MMO Business Roundup: Valve’s SteamPal, Rockstar’s record label, and Cyberpunk’s legal battles
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Valve: Would you like Steam to be your pal? Too bad because Valve...
MMO Business Roundup: Valorant esports, South Korean politics, Netmarble, Nexon, and EVE Echoes
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Valorant: It's been an ugly week in esports, as Riot Games suspended esports...
MMO Business Roundup: Discord, Ubisoft, Twitch, WB Games, Starfield, and more
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:...
MMO Business Roundup: Q1 2021 financials for Roblox, Nexon, and Star Stable
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Star Stable: I'm frankly just as surprised as anyone to be starting this...
MMO Business Roundup: Nexon’s bitcoins, Fortnite’s tiny iOS playerbase, and GDC’s State of the Industry
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GDC's State of the Industry: GDC's annual survey of game developers offers an array...
MMO Business Roundup: Roblox prank, Hi-Rez, Wargaming, Epic’s funding round, CCP’s metaverse
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A Roblox player from a goofy political meme group apparently pulled quite a stunt...
MMO Business Roundup: ROBLOX’s IPO, NCsoft, Nexon’s next big thing, and FIFA’s latest scandal
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ROBLOX: As planned, ROBLOX went public (publix?) this week, opening its first day of...
MMO Business Roundup: Germany, lockboxes, Distintegration, and CCP vs. the bots
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German lockboxes: We've gone through two full cycles of lockbox backlash in the...
MMO Business Roundup: Theorycraft, My.Games, the FIFA fixing lawsuit, and Roblox’s latest concert
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Theorycraft: Could you found a new games studio on $37.5M? Yeah, probably. A bunch...
MMO Business Roundup: Apple’s Steam subpoena, CCP on the cheap, and Valheim’s 4M
Welcome back to yet another MMO and MMO-adjacent business news roundup - it's the season for these shenanigans, you know.
Valve and Apple: Remember earlier...
MMO Business Roundup: CDPR’s misery, Gamestonk revives, Riot’s Game Changers
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Console shortages: You probably saw all kinds of headlines this week about how President...
MMO Business Roundup: Stadia’s bungle, Axie Infinity’s $1.5M in-game property
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Stadia: The Google mess just gets thicker, as apparently, developers on Stadia's internal...
Lawful Neutral: The bizarre corporate effort to buy RuneScape studio Jagex
Would it really be a new year without Runescape developer Jagex being involved in some sort of weird corporate sale only to be blocked...
MMO Business Roundup: Activision-Blizzard rebuffs diversity proposal, gaming Kickstarters are on the rise again
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MMO Kickstarters may have lost the faith of the genre's playerbase, but for...
MMO Business Roundup: ESA’s PAC, mail criming, Steam by the numbers, and Blizzard charity
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO- and MMO-adjacent industry news in our first MMO Business Roundup of 2021!
The ESA: The Entertainment Software...
Lawful Neutral: 2020 was the year that wasn’t for MMO legal news
It seems surreal, but it is that time of the year again when we wax nostalgic about the year that was. Well, maybe this...
