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MMO Business Roundup: Activision owned cheatmaker EngineOwning
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news! Business business business and all that.
EngineOwning got owned - File this one...
Destiny 2 provides one more Final Shape preview, collabs with Dungeons & Dragons for a cash shop bundle
We are now mere days away from Destiny 2: The Final Shape going live (unless you were among those PS5 players who got that...
Massively Overthinking: Is tab targeting a problem in MMORPGs?
This past weekend, MMO designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street lobbed another bomb rather cavalierly into the MMORPG discourse, this one about tab targeting. And maybe...
Portions of Destiny 2’s Final Shape expansion accidentally become playable to PS5 fans ahead of schedule
We're reasonably sure that releasing the next expansion for Destiny 2 is a bit more involved than pushing a "go" button, but it looks...
Destiny 2 drops new Final Shape trailer as Steam concurrency is booming
Do long delays make the heart grow fonder? Maybe not, but they sure do give the video team a lot more time to make...
The Stream Team: A night of Nightwave in Warframe
A new Nightwave mini-season has started in Warframe, and this time Massively OP's MJ is getting in on at the beginning! How can she...
War Thunder makes changes to its 2024 roadmap, talks up new homing missiles arriving with next update
You might have recalled those air-to-air battles in the movie Independence Day when pilots were calling out "FOX-2" and "FOX-3" when firing missiles. Just...
NetEase’s post-apoc survival shooter Once Human opens mobile pre-registration
If you've been hoping to experience some SCP-style weirdness on your mobile device, then you'll be happy to note that the post-apocalyptic survival shooter...
Lawsuit accuses Activision and Facebook of partial blame in deadly 2022 school mass shooting
The 2022 mass shooting that took place at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, is one of the most shameful events in the US...
Destiny 2 outlines Final Shape’s armor and ability updates and a new Pathfinder UI
Destiny 2 continues to unleash a torrent of hyper-granular details about its Final Shape expansion this week, with dev blogs, weekly newsletter information, and...
WoW Factor: Story Difficulty is a bad idea and a good idea all rolled into one
Back during Wrath of the Lich King, I remember people asking for a story difficulty for raids in World of Warcraft because if the...
Shroud of the Avatar execs expand on Slayscape, a procedurally generated battle royale RPG
Last March we reported on the discovery of Pangaea, a development studio formed by existing execs of Shroud of the Avatar's Catnip Games --...
XDefiant’s free-to-play launch recovers after initial matchmaking server issues
This week brought another competitive FPS game to the multiplayer world in the form of XDefiant, Ubisoft's swing at making a team vs. team...
Extraction shooter Hawked launches Issue 2: Dark Arrival with new PvP ranked mode
MY.GAMES is blasting out a big update for Hawked as of today - and yes, it's calling Hawked an "online treasure-hunting game" (OTHG?) as...
Helldivers 2 CEO steps down into a lead developer role and outlines his general vision for improvements
The name of Johan Pilestedt has been one of the more memorable ones for fans of Helldivers 2, particularly for his candid level of...
Overwatch 2 is killing its Hero Mastery Gauntlet PvE mode at the end of season 10
Blizzard is apparently taking an axe to yet another PvE-esque mode in Overwatch 2 as it winds down Hero Mastery Gauntlet for good at...
Overwatch 2 is once again crowdfunding its OWCS esports prize pool with a skin bundle
Blizzard appears to be making another attempt at crowdfunding an esports competition as it's selling a skin bundle to Overwatch 2 players in order...
The Stream Team: Fighting the foes of managed democracy in Helldivers 2
It's time yet again for MOP's Chris to slip on his helmet, grab his favorite weapons, and strap on his cape as he and...
Escape from Tarkov studio offers special edition compensation in the form of a single-use $50 coupon
Escape from Tarkov developer Battlestate Games just can't stop shooting itself in the foot over its PvE mode debacle. As a refresher, the studio...
MMO Business Roundup: Nexon’s Q1 2024, Microsoft’s AI fiddling, XDefiant’s monetization
Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! This time around, we've got only one first quarter report to...
