The real problem with this genre is the fact that humans play it. Here’s some of the worst stuff they’ve done.
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Wizard101 admits the in-game alert system hijacking last weekend was an external hack
Over the weekend, we covered the bizarre news that someone was filling up Wizard101's in-game alert system with malicious text and vulgar messages attacking...
Ubisoft CEO suggests harassment claims come from a generational divide as employees call out ‘superficial’ reforms
Last year a culture of mismanagement, sexual harassment, and racism across Ubisoft and its many studios was exposed, leading to multiple executives leaving the...
Whatever happened to Kickstarted MMO Destiny’s Sword? Well, for starters, it’s not an MMO anymore
Sometimes when we circle back around to a game we haven't covered in a while, we're met with a big surprise. That's absolutely the...
Stick and Rudder: ‘Robin Hood’ scammer claims he robbed rich EVE Online corp of $100 billion ISK
EVE Online is a game that will certainly go down in MMO history as one of the most fascinating studies on human behavior to...
Someone hijacked Wizard101’s in-game alert feed to spam toxicity
Wizard101 is normally associated with kid-friendly fun, but over the past weekend it got decidedly more adult in terms of its language as someone...
NFT gaming consultant proposes conscripting poor gamers as MMO NPCs
In case you needed another reason to keep crypto out of gaming, a new article on Rest of World chronicles an NFT scheme in...
Crypto WoW-wannabe Ragnarok loses $1.8M in ETH before it even gets off the ground
The crash of crypto has damaged another starry-eyed dreamer looking to blend MMORPG gaming, the metaverse, and NFTs together: Ragnarok, not to be confused...
In-development play-to-earn racing game Torque Drift 2 earns a MegaGrant from Epic Games
Epic Games is apparently about as careful and selective of tossing out its money to developers as Nintendo is with applying its Seal of...
CWA accuses Activision-Blizzard of spying on workers and threatening to shut down labor discussions
The Communications Workers of America, the parent union where Raven's QA workers' union falls under, continues to keep a spotlight on Activision-Blizzard's ongoing attempts...
Kickstarted MMO Untamed Isles ‘goes into hiatus’ after devs lose funds thanks to crypto market
Just last month we put a spotlight on Untamed Isles, a promising Pokemon-like MMO that raised $528,804 from a 2021 Kickstarter campaign. In fact,...
China’s restrictions on game time sees a drop in minors’ gaming engagement in the country
Last year, the Chinese government tightened the screws on minors' gaming access, limiting play time to only three hours a week at specific times...
Richard Garriott’s NFT MMO has a website and a name: Iron and Magic
You may remember that space tourist Richard Garriott, fresh off the utter collapse of Shroud of the Avatar, had threatened us all with another...
MultiVersus players are facing DMCA strikes for uploading footage with modded character skins
The multiplayer character brawler MultiVersus has seen itself gain plenty of fans and made some strong impressions on two of our own writers. However,...
Blizzard is union-busting again, this time targeting the Diablo IV team
It would appear that Blizzard just can't stop trying to fight those pesky workers. QA devs at Blizzard Albany, formerly known as Vicarious Visions...
Stalkers harassed Destiny 2 devs with racist voice mails and doxxing, new court filings show
Earlier this week, we wrote about Destiny 2 studio Bungie's plan to reduce comms between developers and players temporarily over some extreme harassment and...
Legends of Aria’s new blockchain owners are trying to sell $70 random P2W characters
The hits keep coming for Legends of Aria, and we don't mean the greatest hits compilation kind.
We regret to remind you that Aria, which...
Somebody paid-to-win so hard in Diablo Immortal that it wrapped around to pay-to-lose
The industry was generating so many "internet guy spends a fortune on Diablo Immortal" stories there for a while that we stopped even covering...
TwitchCon will have no mask or vaccination requirements despite the ongoing pandemic
So let's just do a quick recap, shall we? This year's PAX East had vaccination and masking, and people still reported cases of COVID-19...
Bungie reduced direct communication with players over ‘real threats’ to devs
It's becoming clear that Destiny 2 developer Bungie is experiencing a problem with playerbase toxicity - readers will recall that the studio is taking...
Axie Infinity CEO caught shuffling $3M in the game’s crypto tokens before announcing its $620M hack
No matter how decentralized cryptocurrencies claim to be, there's always going to be a paper trail to follow, and one such trail was left...
