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It seems like a long time ago, but just a few weeks back, the mainstream news cycle was absolutely obsessed with Gamestop thanks to...

Earlier this week we reported on a breach of CD Projekt Red's systems that resulted in a number of stolen pieces of data, including...

Another day, another round of bro culture at Riot Games. The latest episode has gone even further up the chain of command, as former...

Last week we reported on an effort by several players of Elite: Dangerous to dupe new players into a sort of indentured servitude by...

There's burning bridges and then there's firing a massive orbital strike laser at them. Google has effectively chosen the latter with its handling of...

An Elite Dangerous player and member of the altruistic Fuel Rats group has uncovered what appears to be an insidious scheme while responding to...

In the summer of 2018, which seems like an eternity ago now, Kotaku published a massive expose of Riot Games' "culture of sexism," the...

Would it really be a new year without Runescape developer Jagex being involved in some sort of weird corporate sale only to be blocked...

The GME train keeps on a rollin' here on Friday. As daytraders and retail stock-buyers have been organizing on Reddit to buy GameStop stock...

(We're continuing to update this piece on the latest at the end!) If I had told you last year that GameStop, the retail business that...

Earlier this week, RuneScape studio Jagex announced it had been sold to a new investment company, The Carlyle Group. But then we learned another...

Facing what could turn out to be multiple lawsuits over the disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077 and the ensuing financial fallout, CD Projekt Red...

Well crap - just when we thought we'd escaped 2020 without too many MMO sunsets, another one sneaks in at the last minute to...

File this one under "no good deed goes unpunished": A 10-year veteran of Star Trek Online who picked up a lifetime sub to the...

Following the shameful events of this past week in Washington D.C. during which an outgoing U.S. president urged supporters to storm the Capitol, many...

All right. So. Apparently people wanted to know my response to the new cinematic mined out from within World of Warcraft. Cool. That's easy. My...

It looks as if the gold farming bots have found a particularly lucrative location in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. During a recent livestream, WoW...

A few years ago, we started collecting all our cozy, comforting, positive, happy stories under the "warm fuzzies" tag. But we also have another...

You perhaps aren't familiar with Shanghai-based Yoozoo Games, but if you've heard of free-to-play games like Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming or League...

We've updated this story at the end. In short, this family was fibbing for internet cred. One of the best parts of having little kids...