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Activision-Blizzard shareholders propose a measure that guarantees non-interference with organizing workers
The shareholders of Activision-Blizzard are about to come together to vote on a variety of company proposals, and one of those proposals might raise...
Diablo Immortal brings a new zone, Inferno difficulty, hearthrot demons, and combat stances today
Today, June 15th, is marking a pretty sizeable content drop for Diablo Immortal in the form of the Destruction's Wake update, which will introduce...
Overwatch 2 discusses the Invasion update’s PvE missions – and the price you’ll have to pay to keep them
PvE is finally coming to Overwatch 2 with the release of the Invasion update on August 10th, but the latest post from the game...
Overwatch 2 finally expands Pride content to Poland and Romania following player backlash
When Overwatch 2 decided to launch Pride Month content for the shooter, it did so selectively to accommodate countries the studio claimed had "laws...
World of Warcraft announces price hikes on subscription plans for Turkiye and Ukraine
Fans of World of Warcraft who live in Turkiye and Ukraine are seeing some bad news this week, as Blizzard has confirmed that the...
Diablo IV fixes PC stuttering, balances classes and glyphs, releases Halsey-SUGA vid
While the wider playerbase is still a day away from Diablo IV's launch, the game has been getting patches for its biggest and earliest...
Activision-Blizzard offers (some) hard numbers on its harassment and discrimination problem
Within the Variety puff piece on Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick earlier this week, Kotick insisted that the volumes of harassment accusations against the company...
Bobby Kotick decries ‘aggressive labor movement’ trying to ‘destabilize’ Activision-Blizzard
We're just a few days from the launch of Diablo IV, so naturally Variety has offered up a mushy interview with... Activision-Blizzard's Bobby Kotick,...
Overwatch 2 plans Pride Month celebration with player cosmetics, decorated maps, and a short story
Pride Month is nearly here, and Overwatch 2 is seeking to highlight the diverse nature of the shooter's cast and playerbase with several celebratory...
Blizzard suggests WoW Token RMT in WoW Classic is ‘for the good of the community’ because of RMT bots
World of Warcraft's WoW Classic community has been on fire for the last few days following Blizzard's announcement that it will port the WoW...
Albion Online compensates players, cracks down on fraud as population stays high
Albion Online has a couple of post-Knightfall changes in store for players of the PvP sandbox. First, Sandbox Interactive has revamped its rules for...
BitCraft considers how to manage its in-game free trade system against the specter of real-money trading
While the dev blogs out of BitCraft can sometimes feel meager when it comes to expected information like gameplay feature deep-dives or release window...
The Daily Grind: What could MMO studios do to add value to their subscriptions?
When Blizzard first announced World of Warcraft's trading post and yet didn't actually include anything particularly objectionable, pay-to-win, or RMT, I thought it seemed...
Massively Overthinking: The FOMO in our MMOs
World of Warcraft has become a very dump-on-able game lately, and Blizzard isn't making it any harder, as a tweet the company sent out...
Final Fantasy XI rolls out its newest patch complete with chat filters
The latest update for Final Fantasy XI arrived on Friday, and it brought with it the first pass on the game's chat filter functionality....
RuneScape warns players against PvP arena gold trading and giveaway-based RMT
Readers might remember that Old School RuneScape had launched the PvP arena as a replacement for its old duel arena, which was being used...
The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest activity you’ve charged MMO currency for?
As City of Heroes Homecoming tests long-awaited recycling rules for abandoned names and characters, I've been contemplating what to do with some of the...
Hearthstone’s second battleground season begins next week with major monetization charges
Practice your fancy shuffle, my friends, for Hearthstone's second battlegrounds season is set to start next week on August 30th. Yesterday, Blizzard announced what...
Vague Patch Notes: The many flavors of ‘boosting’ in the MMO genre
The other day MOP's Bree and I were having a discussion about boosting. This is not entirely unusual, but it was unusual insofar as...
Final Fantasy XIV makes plan for opening home world transfers while banning RMT accounts
If you want to transfer your home world in Final Fantasy XIV right now... well, you can't. This is not for no reason, either....
