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Eden Eternal starts pre-registration… and offers players NFTs for participation
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
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
Sharing glamorous looks is arguably a large part of the fun in MMOs, so when KingsIsle decided to encourage that in Wizard101 with the...
Disney axes its fledgling metaverse division as part of a 7,000 employee layoff round
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
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
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...
FTC finalizes fine for Fortnite’s dark patterns as Epic talks up NFT ‘games’ on EGS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Today marks the day when the latest entry in the Uncharted Waters franchise releases its next global title. Uncharted Waters Origin has officially arrived...
Bless Global is already delisted on Steam after trying to push crypto racket
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...
Square-Enix’s Babylon’s Fall went out with the wimpiest of whimpers
How do you imagine your favorite online service game going dark? Hopefully it's with bittersweet parties among the faithful community and massive end-of-game events...
CWA files charges against Activision-Blizzard over latest unionbusting efforts
Activision-Blizzard's unionbusting reputation precedes it, I'm afraid, as the company has been playing a very public whackamole game with its burgeoning workers' movements over...
