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Warframe’s TennoCon 2025 tickets sold out almost immediately, leading fans to assume bot shenanigans

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If you're a Warframe fan who was hoping to attend Digital Extremes' in-person TennoCon event this year, it would appear that you missed out,...

Pantheon’s Visionary Realms is investigating after players accuse a dev of enriching his guild

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We've updated the end of this story with Visionary Realm's investigatory conclusion; in short, it does not believe the dev was guilty but has...

SMITE studio Hi-Rez is going through its second round of layoffs in four months

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Bad news for fans of Hi-Rez's remaining multiplayer games: The company is apparently undergoing another round of layoffs. We say "another" because Hi-Rez just did...
Wild monster trucks couldn't drag me away.

UK rebuffs game preservationists’ petition to make retroactively breaking old games unlawful

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One of the big industry-wide narratives that emerged from the wreckage of 2024 was player-initiated efforts to center game preservation - indeed, even to...

New World continues to address PvP season server transfer problems while extending penalties on players

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When New World opened its new PvP season servers, it accidentally let established characters hop over to these new servers when they shouldn't have...

World of Warcraft has likely made millions from its $90 pay-to-win dino mount

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Last October, World of Warcraft elected to celebrate its 20th anniversary by selling a $90 mount with mail and auction house features baked in....

The Division 2 now says The Battle for Brooklyn DLC will launch in 2025

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Earlier this week, following news that Ubisoft's was laying off another 185 people affecting four studios in Europe, the The Division 2 team -...
Hunt a man.

Following Ubisoft’s latest round of layoffs, The Division 2 delays its next DLC – again

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Ubisoft's Division 2 team posted a memo to players this morning that seems like good news but is being read as the opposite. For starters,...

A ‘majority’ of Dauntless and Fae Farm devs at Phoenix Labs have apparently been laid off

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We've got bad news for fans of Dauntless and Fae Farm tonight: Studio Phoenix Labs posted to Linkedin that its owners have "made the tough...

Ubisoft is laying off another 185 game devs in Europe

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The bad news for Ubisoft just keeps rolling this week as the company has admitted it's laying off another 185 people and closing down...
Here we are, in the classic.

Final Fantasy XIV is considering taking legal action against a stalker-empowering game mod

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If you're a part of the Final Fantasy XIV community beyond a certain level of engagement, you are no doubt aware of the game's...

New World’s overnight update broke the PvP season servers, and yeah, it’s real bad

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(Updated with Amazon's latest response at the end.) Amazon's overnight patch for New World seems to have unintentionally broken a few rather important parts of...

Camelot Unchained studio Unchained Entertainment reportedly laid off 40% of its devs

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We've got some bad news for fans and followers of Camelot Unchained: It appears that Mark Jacobs' studio Unchained Entertainment has lost a large...

Marvel Snap is still inaccessible to US players despite TikTok’s ban reversal

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This past weekend's kerfuffle over legislators banning - and then reversing - TikTok in the US might have been solved for those who love...

The US TikTok ban (temporarily) took out mobile CCG Marvel Snap and mobile RPG Watcher of Realms

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This week we have a classic case of the complex connection between one company and its multiple revenue streams, the geopolitical landscape, and how...

Square Enix puts abusive fans on notice with threats of bans or legal action in new harassment policy

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No matter how "passionate" you might feel about a game, it's never OK to directly abuse, harass, or threaten the people responsible for making...

RuneScape fans riot over Jagex survey on $33 subs, in-game ads, and account restrictions

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Yesterday we reported on a conjoint survey being sent out by Jagex to players of RuneScape and Old School RuneScape with a stated intention...

NetEase yoinks funding from another studio and leaves Jar of Sparks to seek a new publisher

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Back in 2022 we got word of NetEase funding a new studio known as Jar of Sparks, which is being headed by Jerry Hook,...

Enad Global 7 shuts down Toadman and lays off staff at Piranha Games, potentially affecting PlanetSide 2

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We have the unfortunate duty to report that the layoffs within the games industry will apparently continue until funny line improves. Enad Global 7,...
Great move.

World of Warcraft is hiking subscription prices in Australia and New Zealand

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Who doesn't like paying more for things? Wait. Sorry. The answer to that is "everyone," and so you can imagine that residents of Australia...

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