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Galaxies of Eden devs cancel plans for social sandbox MMO to develop dubious AI-generated playground

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So remember how Galaxies of Eden had delayed its pre-alpha testing because of technical roadblocks and bugs? Well, we've finally heard from the studio...

ARK 2 is delayed into 2024, original ARK will get an August UE5 remaster you’ll have to re-buy

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The weekly newsletter out of ARK: Survival Evolved is arguably a tale of bad news, then interesting news, then worse news. On the bad...
Of course this is the hitch.

Eden Eternal starts pre-registration… and offers players NFTs for participation

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If you were looking forward to the relaunch of Eden Eternal under X-LEGEND, we have some bad news for you. It's not exactly the...

Ubisoft Paris is accused of developer crunch and poor project management by French game workers union

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Solidaires Informatique, the French game workers union that has been working with employees at Ubisoft Paris since the developer's widespread sexual harassment claims came...

Wizard101 players are already ruining the fun of its recent Rate My Stitch feature

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Sharing glamorous looks is arguably a large part of the fun in MMOs, so when KingsIsle decided to encourage that in Wizard101 with the...
hax

Disney axes its fledgling metaverse division as part of a 7,000 employee layoff round

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How long does it take for the House of Mouse to decide the metaverse isn't worth it? Roughly a year, apparently, as Disney has...

Warner Bros. pulls MultiVersus’ beta offline in June, plans full launch next year

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When Player First Games launched MultiVersus into open beta last summer, it was an instant hit with our writers and readers and everyone else...

Nexon dives further into NFT and blockchain games with MapleStory N and a MapleStory Universe ecosystem

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Readers might remember that Nexon's push into crypto has gone as one might expect, with $40M disappearing into the void in 2021 and continued...
You are bad and you should feel bad.

FTC finalizes fine for Fortnite’s dark patterns as Epic talks up NFT ‘games’ on EGS

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Usually when people says things are going "pretty well," your first sympathetic instinct is to ask about what might be troubling them; those words...

EA is sunsetting another trio of online games from the Battlefield IP

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Prepare to say farewell to a whole 'nother slew of online games and a whole 'nother reason to support widespread game preservation. Though technically these...

CCP Games officially unveils plans for a new blockchain game set within the EVE Online universe

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For many players, it was probably a matter of when EVE Online developer CCP Games would dip into the blockchain gaming space, not whether,...

Square-Enix is still all-in on its NFT game, Symbiogenesis

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Square-Enix has made no bones about its excitement to throw good money after bad on the pyre of NFT and crypto gaming, with its...

A Counter-Strike player shelled out six figures for an AK-47 skin because it had flowers and stickers on it

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The worth of digital items can very often be attributed to personal preference no matter how much crypto-hawking gremlins would like you to believe...

Ukraine-based STALKER 2 dev studio has been hacked and blackmailed by a pro-Russian group

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We haven't been tracking the development trajectory of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl very closely, particularly since it's projecting a December 2023 launch with...

After 14 years, Enjin drops guild site building tools in favor of blockchain and NFT tech

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It has been a very long time since the name of Enjin crossed our minds. Long-time MMORPG gamers will recognize it as a service...

SMITE studio promises to hunt and ban accounts tied to a harassment campaign that targeted women

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Titan Forge Games, aka the Hi-Rez Studios team behind SMITE, are making it very plain that targeted harassment will not be tolerated. The studio...

Star Citizen’s alpha 3.18 craters its initial launch, causing players to riot across the internet

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Alpha 3.18 was meant to be Star Citizen's "biggest update yet," but what appears to have happened is a spectacularly buggy launch instead, causing...

Roblox confirms that it had $150M in Silicon Valley Bank, now shut down by regulators

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We would love to be in the kind of position where seeing millions of dollars disappear registers an "everything is fine" response. That looks...

Uncharted Waters Origin debuts on PC and mobile devices, runs afoul of gamers thanks to gacha monetization

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Today marks the day when the latest entry in the Uncharted Waters franchise releases its next global title. Uncharted Waters Origin has officially arrived...
Factionalized!

Bless Global is already delisted on Steam after trying to push crypto racket

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Did we expect anything different? Not really. Just days after Bless Global relaunched the franchise for the umpteenth time on Steam, the MMO was delisted...

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