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Play-to-earn Axie Infinity hasn’t weathered the crypto crash well as players ‘lose hope’
The cautionary tale that is Axie Infinity is likely well known to most, but for those who are looking for a rundown of the...
Legends of Aria plans to de-list from Steam at the end of the month as part of its crypto relaunch
As you have no doubt learned by now in the event that you considered it relevant information, Legends of Aria is going to be...
Riders of Icarus, which topped a million players six years ago, is going play-to-earn with NFTs
Welp, Riders of Icarus had a nice run.
Readers will recall that the taming-centric MMO soft-launched almost six years ago under Nexon's banner with over...
Legends of Aria talks up its next testing phases and attempts to rationalize why it ‘needs’ the blockchain
Legends of Aria is continuing to beat the drum of its revamp and restructuring into a blockchain and NFT-filled MMORPG. A new dev blog...
Ashes of Creation discusses progress on combat, crafting, and events – and rejects play-to-earn
While the latest development update livestream from Ashes of Creation didn't have any blockbuster previews or sexy vignettes to share, what it did have...
Bless Unleashed PC is becoming a blockchain play-to-earn MMORPG
Apparently, Valofe can be counted among the other studios being seduced by the siren song of crypto and play-to-earn schemes: A press release from...
Lawful Neutral: How is an NFT MMO even supposed to work?
Recently, MassivelyOP hit a milestone: We received our quadrabajillionth email announcing that Scammy-scammers-now-with-NFTs-and-also-metaverse-because-reasons Inc. was a proven market leader with a new scamming game...
The FBI says it was a North Korean hacker gang that crimed Axie Infinity for $620M
At the tail end of March, we reported on a massive hack of exploitative play-to-earn blockchain job/game Axie Infinity. At the time, the hackers...
Legends of Aria sports a new site extolling its new blockchain nature
Remember when Legends of Aria was just an indie MMORPG based on allowing player-run servers instead of being involved with a dubious-at-best moneymaking scheme? Good...
CCP Games CEO joins a private meeting with crypto company heads ‘to talk about EVE Online’ at GDC
The possible shadow of a crypto and NFT Damocles continues to hang over EVE Online. We've previously reported on this year's GDC conference being...
Hackers yoink crypto worth over half a billion dollars from P2E Axie Infinity
We greet you this fine Wednesday morning with some schadenfreude: The people behind massive exploitative pay-to-earn job/game Axie Infinity have apparently seen their network...
GDC 2022: Blockchain, NFTs, and play-to-earn scams go mainstream
It's GDC again, guys, and it's... woof, a rough-looking year. While we had some really interesting panels during COVID, the first in-person event (which...
Rise Online gets ready for an April 15 launch with all the NFTs you can handle
Last year we reported that there was a spiritual successor to an old MMORPG known as Knight Online that was in the works. Rise...
XLGAMES’ NFT-filled ArcheWorld opens for pre-registration and maps out content plans
At the top of February we caught wind of ArcheWorld, a version of XLGAMES' MMORPG ArcheAge that is filled with a gaggle of NFTs...
Netmarble creates its Marblex blockchain ecosystem in preparation for its arrival to A3 Still Alive
If you were hoping that Netmarble would have read the room and come to its senses regarding cryptocurrency, blockchain, and play-to-earn in the mobile...
Cornucopias’ The Island is an upcoming MMO brimming with blockchain babble
Imagine if an MMO developer decided to rake up every NFT and blockchain buzzword and system, then pigeonholed and sewed them together to make...
Hyperspace is a new MMORPG sandbox that sounds neat except for the blockchain play-to-earn parts
There's a new MMO on the horizon quite literally: It's called Hyperspace, and it's the first game from Scottish game studio Carbon Based Lifeforms....
Mobile MMO A3 Still Alive is adding a dungeon that awards cryptocurrency next month
In a move that publisher Netmarble calls "a prolonged and future-oriented area of investment" that will "provide extensive value to players via digital ownership...
EVE Online and Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss believes it can ‘create a stable blockchain ecosystem’
Pearl Abyss' Q4 2021 financials are a rollercoaster, my friends. The company is fine, so no panic there; in fact, it's operating revenue is...
Vague Patch Notes: Why play-to-earn is a garbage idea
Good afternoon, readers. Do you remember not so long ago when I talked about the fact that MMOs are perfectly fine as just games...
