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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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...
Diablo Immortal made $100 million in revenue in two months
When Diablo Immortal launched, pretty much everyone was united in calling the game out for its absolutely atrocious and exploitative monetization model, which led...
Voxelbox MMO Elteria Adventures goes pay-to-earn while promising a ‘true synergetic experience’
If the name Elteria Adventures isn't quite striking familiar to you, allow us a brief moment to recap: This sandbox MMO, which brought to...
Roblox removes its iconic ‘oof’ sound effect as a result of an unexplained ‘licensing issue’
Even if you've never played Roblox in your life, you're very likely familiar with an "oof" sound effect that's in the game. The sound...
Neopets gets hacked for all user account data and source code, hacker offers everything for sale for bitcoin
So who had "Neopets gets hacked and sold on the black market" on their 2022 bingo card? When you think about online games, you...
Square-Enix finally makes good on its threat of selling NFTs with NFT-linked action figures
You may have thought that after seeing NFT prices crash along with cryptocurrency prices crashing, Square-Enix would have backed down from its inane blather...
EVE Online addresses community safety and promises more action to police community behavior
There's been some drama unfolding in EVE Online recently, the kind of drama that is at once not surprising when you see the cast...
Entropia Universe is laying NFT eggs that promise ‘rewards-earning opportunities’ for holders
It's been a hot minute since the real-world currency sci-fi MMO Entropia Universe made headlines here, and when it did, it was due to...
Bungie accuses Destiny 2 player of cheating and harassment in latest lawsuit
The development studio of Destiny 2 is once again in the news thanks to yet another lawsuit being filed against one of its players....
Unity’s John Riccitiello apologizes for sentence he wishes he ‘never said’
A harsh judgment from Unity's CEO last week experienced a fair bit of pushback and criticism from gamers and other studios alike. John Riccitiello...
Kakao Games invests in Korean studio Redlab Games to create a play-to-earn mobile MMO
Kakao Games is looking to dive deeper into the play-to-earn cesspool, it appears. The publisher has reportedly invested an undisclosed amount into Korean studio...
NFT MMO ArcheWorld plans testing of an AlphaPass and opens an ad sharing contest in Asian regions
We're once again reporting on ArcheWorld, the NFT-filled version of ArcheAge that was first announced in February 2022. The last report we did on...
Unity’s CEO says game devs who don’t include monetization in their design process are ‘f*cking idiots’
Not since Square-Enix president Yosuke Matsuda's notorious letter about pursuing NFTs has someone in the games industry so spectacularly lost the plot that we're...
Ubisoft plans to yank multiplayer from 15 more of its games this fall as devs scramble to preserve them
If your game library is full of Ubisoft titles, you may want to reevaluate which of them you'll actually be able to play come...
Axie Infinity’s massive crypto theft by hackers was possible thanks to a job search phishing scam
Most of our regular readers know Axie Infinity as the game that saw a North Korean hacker gang get away with a huge stash...
