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Back at launch, I played Lost Ark quite heavily for some time, eventually racking up over 100 hours in the game and generally enjoying...

For the last week, we've been covering a WAPO story on the games industry's tepid response for reproductive health rights, which led to a...

Several members of the Star Citizen community messed around and found out. The story begins with a plea to CIG to introduce a profanity...

Blizzard Entertainment isn't the only video game studio experiencing backlash from its employees over sexism and abuse. The Division 2 maker Ubisoft has long...

Welcome back to our irregular roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news! Twitch: This week, Twitch introduced yet another round of policy changes in regard...

There's a clip from the current Monster Hunter film that's drawn a lot of ire particularly from Chinese audiences, which has resulted in some...

The behavior of people in online games does not appear to be improving for the better. According to national survey results from the Anti-Defamation...

GI.biz has a detailed expose of Twitch's corporate culture out today, painting a picture of ongoing and systemic racism, sexism, and abuse, both in...

Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and online games industry news. There's a new class action in town, and EA is the target. Plaintiff...

The circle is now complete: Social media has mastered skills MMOs and online games haven't, not that social media was paying much attention to...

Nobody's ever going to hold Blizzard up as a paragon of virtue, but President J. Allen Brack said that the studio is trying to...

Welcome back to another quick roundup of video games business and industry news relevant for the MMO genre. Richard Garriott: Apparently, the former icon of...

Nobody's surprised to learn that the corporate culture at the tippy-top of Riot Games still has "bad apples," right? After the huge sexual harassment...

The chat box of an MMO was never meant to be a safe haven for racists, but with the protests across the US calling...

It would appear that NASCAR drivers are no better than the worst esports gamers among us. An iRacing esports event with NASCAR drivers --...

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

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...

"Multiplayer medieval slasher" Mordhau worked its way through the news cycle this spring and summer, first for its dazzling Steam launch and then for...

It's finally time for me talk about Project Gorgon as a released product. As you might have guessed, I was avoiding the game prior to launch....

What's going on in the online video games business this week? Let's dig in. Steam, toxicity, and Kartridge The Center for Investigative Reporting (via Motherboard) has a...