predatory monetization

Among the many complaints that players are leveraging against Diablo IV, one of them is arguably far more serious than class nerfs: a bit...

I was hoping to cover a couple of other location-based games besides Jurassic World Alive this month, but as I played them, there were a...

I have a pretty laid back approach to monetization in online games. Bar mandatory subscriptions and a few egregious outliers, I am generally fine...

This week, I want to expand on something I mentioned in last week's Vague Patch Notes as an offhand thing that bears further examination....

It's said that politics makes for strange bedfellows, and there appears to be no better illustration of that axiom than the potential meeting between...

It would appear that investors of the Chinese games giant NetEase were pinning a lot of hopes on Diablo Immortal's launch to China. The...

It probably hasn't escaped anyone who has been reading my writing over the past several years that I have something of a vendetta against...

For the longest time, we always thought of Roblox as "that kids game with ridiculous numbers of active users." Yet as we reported last...

By now, you've probably seen several articles about the poor monetization in Pokemon Unite, often based on Reddit posts or streamer hot takes. Most talk...

While other gaming conventions do big game reveals, the beauty of GDC is that we hear about some of the cool tech and practices...

I have a problem: As much as I enjoy games, I can see that many online and multiplayer games are becoming designed more poorly...