politics

Whether we like it or not, the politics of the real world can inform much of what happens in-game, even if people want the...

Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick clearly doesn't fear the Blizzard boycott that is still technically ongoing following Blizzard's October decision to penalize a...

Last week, the gaming world was a tad busy running Halloween events and watching BlizzCon, so it passed almost without notice that a US...

A report from UK children's commissioner Anne Longfield is calling for stricter laws on lootboxes and to amend current gambling laws to include lootboxes,...

One might wonder why, possessed as it was of a pretty good week of announcements, Riot Games would willingly put Blizzard's One Ring...

We probably don't need to tell our audience this, given that while yes, you all have phones, you're also typically not obsessive about gaming...

The furor over Blizzard's ban of a Hong Kong Hearthstone pro player and apparent firing of two Taiwanese commentators has only increased since...

I suppose it was just a matter of time before the current Chinese political mess spilled over into gaming, but it's done so now:...

Academics have found a way to make the media and politicians' spurious blame of video games for real-world violence look even worse than it...

Yesterday, we covered the UK government’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee panel report on addictive technologies: Readers will recall that the...

You folks remember 38 Studios, right? The studio at the heart of one of the most scandalous fiascos in the whole MMO genre?...

We're probably preaching to the choir with this one, but did you know that there is still no proven link between video games and...

In what is being explained as a move of "respect for the victims and all those impacted" by recent mass shooting events in...

Conversations, studies, and outright rancor over video game lockbox practices have caught the notice of several world governments as readers of MOP already know,...

It's no great secret that MMORPG fans fall toward the middle of the age spectrum, given the history and peak of our genre. This...

I used to watch Spongebob religiously. I loved the days when I could put on Nickelodeon and have Spongebob on for hours. One of...

The Jordanian government has announced that the country's Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) has officially banned PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. According to a report from Jordanian...

The politics of the real world have impeded the possible solace or distraction of a video game. It appears that League of Legends...

That dull, wooden hammering you hear in the background is the attachment of planks to platforms. With the US 2020 presidential campaign season drawing...

There's a special place in my heart for lootboxes and exploitative monetization, and that place is somewhere below the revulsion I feel for Martin...