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Activision-Blizzard is suddenly laying off more QA, won’t be at The Game Awards
Yes, Activision-Blizzard is in the news again: Raven Software, one of the studios behind games like Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and...
Dev studio One More Game touts a ‘players first’ attitude and a studio ‘free from ego’
Last July we got word of the founding of One More Game, a dev studio launched by former founder of ArenaNet and En Masse...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2021
Why do I love covering MMORPG news year in and year out? If I'm honest about it, I'm usually in this for the surprises....
The MOP Up: Halo Infinite throws out an update while grappling with rampant cheating
After surprising fans by debuting this month, Halo Infinite's multiplayer mode got an update this past week that introduced a small battle pass, cosmetics,...
Riot Games confirms season two of Arcane is in production, offers an update on Runeterra fighting game Project L
Over the past weekend, Riot Games' highly lauded League of Legends animated series Arcane debuted its final three episodes of the first season, which...
SMITE, PUBG Mobile, and Fortnite kick off ridiculous and fun transmedia synergy events
We live in a video gaming world where SMITE characters wear Transformers as skins, Naruto ninjas decided to battle it out in Fortnite, and...
Riot Games celebrates Arcane series success with in-game goodies, premieres, and tournaments
Is it really a crossover if you're crossing over with yourself? Riot Games is not going to think too hard on that question as...
Riot Games teases Legends of Runeterra’s Path of Champions and new LoL spinoff Hextech Mayhem
Riot Games is continuing its cavalcade of announcements and reveals this week. First, the company's Riot Forge division revealed another League of Legends spinoff,...
League of Legends’ animated series Arcane rakes in rave reviews across the internet
It would appear that Netflix has another hit on its hands with the premiere of the League of Legends animated series Arcane, which made...
Riot Games is partnering with Rihanna’s makeup brand Fenty to promote Arcane
File this one in the bin where I put all the weird cross-promos for a snarky end-of-the-year post: Riot Games is collaborating with Fenty...
Riot plops League of Legends, Runeterra, and Valorant on the Epic Games Store as LoL’s Jinx comes to Fortnite
With its closest rival staggered after a poor quarterly showing and a brutal stock drop, Riot Games is leaping into the vacuum with a...
Legends of Runeterra promises regularly occurring card updates as it celebrates 180M monthly players
Riot Games' CCG Legends of Runeterra appears to be going over pretty well. We can leap to that conclusion with the help of a...
Ex-WoW devs form Notorious Studios to build MMO-adjacent multiplayer RPG
Even before the recent scandal, Blizzard has seen one hell of an exodus of top-tier talent over the last few years. ("Our mentors are...
Lawful Neutral: Managing toxicity in the MMO industry
When I'm playing games, I make a lot of use of the reporting function. If I see a moonkin zerg farming a spot in...
Riot Games on video game anti-cheat measures: ‘It’s a continual arms race’
Remember last year when folks lost their minds over Valorant's kernel-level anti-cheat? Well, it's here to stay, and moving forward it might be a...
One Shots: Gnome mercy
For today's headline picture, I'll let Minimalistway explain why you have a pint-size Great Gnomeregan Run marathoner from World of Warcraft waving frantically at...
WoW Factor: So when will we get the next World of Warcraft expansion announcement?
Under normal circumstances for World of Warcraft, this would be a very stupid topic for an article because it would have a very obvious answer...
Corepunk shows off 15 minutes of PvE gameplay
When I saw that Corepunk's Artificial Core had put up a 15-minute video of the game's PvE experience, my immediate reaction was, "About dang...
Not So Massively Roundup: LoL’s chat test, Overwatch Halloween, and Fortnite acknowledges Among Us
Our not-particularly-massively-multiplayer news has started to pile up, which means it's time for a quick run-down of games in the MMORPG genre's orbit. We've...
Destiny company Bungie just keeps making other game studios look bad – now it’s axed mandatory arbitration
I have to be honest, I did not have "Bungie models good corporate behavior for the gaming industry" in my predictions for 2021, but...
