The real problem with this genre is the fact that humans play it. Here’s some of the worst stuff they’ve done.
this is why we can’t have nice things
Fntastic is hosting a map-making contest for its revised prop hunting game, and no, players won’t get paid
Remember last month when developer Fntastic said it wouldn't use volunteer labor to build its upcoming prop hunting rehash game Items? The studio is...
RIP Harry Potter Magic Awakened – NetEase officially killed it off last night
It’s never easy to say goodbye to an MMO – especially one that you’ve personally spent every day playing since launch. Of course, we’ve...
Star Citizen player reports CIG is making him sign an NDA before getting a refund
We've chronicled the weird steps players have needed to take to get refunds from Star Citizen numerous times before, but now it looks like...
Sony didn’t just sunset Concord – now it’s closing Concord’s studio, Firewalk
The news just keeps getting worse for Sony's Concord: The company is closing down not just the remains of the game but its entire...
Embers Adrift says Digital River has been stiffing it since June, so it’s going temp F2P and heading to Steam
Embers Adrift has some good news bad news - good news for players, but bad news for the studio, which is apparently being screwed...
US Copyright Office rules libraries can’t access old games remotely because of ‘market harm’ and recreational use ‘risk’
If you were hoping to research out-of-print video games and wanted to get access to a copy remotely, that's been made difficult thanks to...
Star Citizen players raise the alarm over internet spaceship nerfs that conveniently favor newer options
Generally, official forums for games are unhappy places in the best of times, but backers of Star Citizen are getting vocally resistant to ship...
World of Warcraft is selling a $90 dino mount to ‘celebrate’ its 20th birthday
The Warcraft franchise has been around for 30 years, and so maybe you feel like you have just ridden on as many bats, gryphons,...
So now we know: Dauntless dev Phoenix Labs was bought out by a blockchain company last year
Back in 2023, we were dismayed at the news that Dauntless and Fae Farm studio Phoenix Labs was being crushed with a nasty round...
Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42
The news that Star Citizen studio CIG forced developers to give up two weekends in order to make CitizenCon happen - followed by a...
Three-year-old New World is labeling new non-Aeternum PC player reviews as ‘pre-release’
Amazon's MMORPG New World launched back in 2021 with almost a million concurrent players on PC through Steam. I was there. You were there....
Class action complaint alleges Ubisoft unlawfully shares personal information with Facebook
By now we're all pretty familiar with the option to log in to alternate platforms and websites through accounts like Google, Steam, and Facebook,...
Roblox Corp denies short-seller’s report that it lies to investors and hosts ‘a pedophile hellscape’
The dark clouds that hang over Roblox have been well-documented by us for quite some time, but now there's a damning new report from...
Embracer-owned Cryptic Studios will suffer devastating layoffs at the end of October
We've been keeping a very worried eye on Cryptic Studios for the last year or so, ever since it became clear that the floundering...
Bungie faces copyright infringement lawsuit from an author over Destiny 2’s Red War story beats
It's been a long time since Destiny 2's launch, so it might have been easy to forget the Red War and some of its...
Star Citizen devs are being forced into mandatory unpaid overtime in order to make CitizenCon happen
While Star Citizen is making sure it keeps excitement up for CitizenCon 2024, behind the scenes the devs at CIG are being crunched to...
Nexon America lays off an unspecified ‘small number’ of employees as part of a ‘hyperlocalization’ strategy
It's hard to know exactly how many a "small number of employees" is when layoffs are announced by a massive company, but in any...
Hi-Rez hit with layoffs as it reduces teams on Paladins and Classic SMITE in favor of SMITE 2
Hi-Rez Studios and its sub-studios are embarking on a wave of layoffs, CEO Stewart Chisam announced bright and early this morning. Chisam characterizes the...
Prices and probabilities for Once Human’s latest lockbox ‘event’ prompt calls for a player boycott
Last week saw survival shooter Once Human put forth its latest update, which Starry Studio said was chiefly focused on the addition of a...
Microsoft’s latest game division layoffs affect nearly 400 Activision-Blizzard employees
The second week of September brought more bad news for game workers in Microsoft, as the company confirmed another 650 layoffs were coming that...
