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Riot suspends COO for gross sexual jokes involving farting and touching subordinates’ genitalia

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More bad news coming out of Riot Games this week. Kotaku reports that Riot employees have been told COO Scott Gelb is being punished...
Ex Machina

MMO Business Roundup: Chinese vs Western gamers, devs against Brexit, and lockboxes as gambling in Australia

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Welcome back to another quick trip through some of this week's gaming business tidbits. Profiling Chinese gamers Quantic Foundry, the Nick Yee research firm that studies...
Boldly gone.

The MOP Up: Star Trek Online engages Battle at the Binary Stars

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Continuing with its push deeper into the Age of Discovery arc, Star Trek Online has warped in the Battle at the Binary Stars task...

SuperData: Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of Duty dominate October as Blizzard titles slip

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Surprising absolutely no one, Red Dead Redemption 2 killed it (and the horse it rode in on) in October. According to SuperData's digital games...
Go punkin' when you get the blues

Fortnite hits 8.3 million concurrent players

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Belaying any claims that it's last year's fad or on the way out, Fortnite has surged forward to cross the 8.3 million threshold. And...
Ahem.

League of Legends’ Riot Games is now being sued for gender discrimination as sexism scandal continues

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The Riot Games sexual harassment scandal has been raging for a tumultuous three months -- or longer, depending on how you look at it...

SuperData: World of Warcraft’s expansion surge ends as Destiny 2’s expansion surge begins

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Dungeon Fighter Online is continuing its run raking in more money than League of Legends, but World of Warcraft's expansion blast seems to be...
Someone must have had fun with this at some point, right?

Nike partners with a professional League of Legends esports player

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If you've ever watched someone playing a really good match in League of Legends and muttered "it's gotta be the shoes," you are possibly...
Dragon Age.

The LA Times investigates Riot Games’ ‘boys’ club’ sexism problem, ESPN reports Riot staff ‘departures’

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If League of Legends company Riot Games thought that the Rockstar crunch conversation was going to eclipse Riot's sexism predicament, it can give up...
Strap in, buckos.

Vague Patch Notes: How do you play MMOs when you know humans suffered to make them?

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The original Star Wars film was a passion project for a then-young George Lucas, and it was a project that nearly killed Lucas from...

Chaos Theory: Secret World Legend’s 2018 Samhain is music to my ears

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It's the most wonderful time of the year With radios playing and ghost that are slaying the ones who come near It's the most wonderful time of...

Riot issues warnings and fines to pro League of Legends players for toxic behavior

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The folks at Riot Games have brought down the hammer on numerous professional League of Legends players, issuing fines to four players and formal...
It's a playground.

The Daily Grind: What online game template will be the next to take off?

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Like many of you, I remember the rise of MMOs when it was actually happening. I remember when shooters were king too. And I...

The MOP Up: Sony’s PlayStation 3 sunset apocalypse

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Sony's decision to shut down several online servers for some past PlayStation 3 games on October 25th is shaping up to be a sunset...

The MOP Up: Blizzard’s new playgrounds

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Ranked Season 4 started up in Heroes of the Storm this past week, and that's just the start of the fun with Blizzard's MOBA....
Dead in the water.

World of Warcraft made more money than League of Legends last month, SuperData reports

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"League of Legends heads towards its worst performing year since 2014." So begins SuperData's August 2018 global revenue report today for the entire video...
Sure, great, whatever.

Fortnite counts almost 80M players per month as the Fall Skirmish boots up

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Still snubbing Fortnite as a kids game? You're not alone, but you're definitely in the minority. It turns out that Epic Games has roped...
Kick it down the road.

UK researchers identify link between lootboxes and problem gambling

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Are lockboxes just another form of gambling? That depends on which government entity, scientist, lawyer, or doctor you ask. But maybe the question we...

Riot Games hires former Uber exec to advise on still-raging sexism scandal

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Earlier this week, League of Legends developer Riot Games announced that it has hired the services of former Senior Vice President of Leadership at...

League of Legends announces Odyssey PvE event

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Riot is bringing PvE back to League of Legends with a new event, Odyssey, which will see players boarding Jinx's spaceship, the Morning Star,...

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