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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Former Overwatch 2 lead vfx artist calls out Blizzard for deceptive promotion and pay behavior
Workers and former workers at the various substudios at Activision-Blizzard have been calling it out as an unpleasant workplace for a while now since...
Korean Court rules man isn’t a conscientious objector because he likes PUBG
We admit that the headline for this story is pretty wild, so allow us a few moments to lay some contextual groundwork: South Korea...
FTC files a complaint against Microsoft following Activision Blizzard layoffs
When Microsoft outlined its plans for what would happen following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, one of the things that the company stated was...
Microsoft will require Final Fantasy XIV players to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass in order to play the game
It's tucked away in the announcement that Final Fantasy XIV's beta on the Xbox Series X|S starts on February 21st, but the announcement does...
Former devs of The Day Before recount a workplace of employee fines, shifting whims, and ‘pure megalomaniacal chaos’
However badly managed The Day Before may have looked upon its disastrous early access release, the reality was reportedly much worse than anyone could...
PSA: Valheim’s Discord and two Iron Gate Discord accounts have apparently been hacked
Bad news bears for survival sandbox Valheim tonight, as apparently hackers have taken over the game's Discord - as well as some of the...
Mad World’s Steam launch is more like Sad World
Too little, too late? That may be the epitaph to Mad World's nine-month trek to bringing the game to Steam after last year's launch....
The Final Fantasy XIV live-action TV series is apparently dead in the water
Remember that talk about adapting Final Fantasy XIV into a live-action television series? No, not the Dad of Light series that included FFXIV as...
The Day Before studio claims to be the target of misinformation and a hate campaign
When Fntastic's survival shooter The Day Before officially shut down its servers, we had assumed it would be the last headline to come out...
The British Army apparently abruptly scuttled its new recruitment game in Fortnite
Games as military recruitment tools aren't entirely new to readers here, primarily in the case of the official US Army FPS series America's Army,...
The Day Before has officially sunsetted, bringing its early access drama to a final ending
This year's popcorn drama is currently being provided by the likes of Palworld, but last year, it was The Day Before - and now...
Riot Games laid off over 500 people last night, and no we don’t know what it means for the Riot MMO
Riot Games is joining the seemingly endless list of game studios continuing to dump workers overboard: Last night, the company announced it is shedding...
The Daily Grind: How much do you think the whales of your top MMO spend in a year?
A few weeks back, following Korea's Fair Trade Commission ordering Nexon to pay nearly $9M in fines over its deceptive gamble-upgrade mechanics, players went...
Guild Wars 2 studio says no accounts involved in new social engineering claim were compromised by CS
The Guild Wars 2 Reddit community has been up in arms this week over a gigantic thread started by former ArenaNet partner and content...
APB Reloaded is sunsetting its console versions – in fact, the Xbox server is already permanently offline
We've got some bad news for the APB community: Last night, Little Orbit announced that it's sunsetting APB Reloaded's console versions.
"The decision to discontinue...
Fractured Online’s duping and hard drive downtime turns into 24-hour rollback
Fractured Online is dealing with yet another round of chaos this week. Readers will recall that a duping-related downtime this weekend was compounded by...
RuneScape and Old School RuneScape will close their official forums on March 28
Whether anyone likes it or not, it looks as if the official MMORPG forums are going the way of the dinosaurs, as even Jagex's...
PSA: Cryptocurrency scammers are stealing Solarpunk’s assets for use in NFTs and a supposed metaverse
At this point we'd like to believe that the vast majority of our readers are assured that cryptocurrency games, metaverses, and NFTs are all...
Discord is shedding 17 percent of its staff as part of the company’s attempt to turn a profit this year
The month of January continues to prove itself to be a brutal one for those in the gaming and tech industries. This time around...
Amazon’s Twitch lays off 500 workers over cost-cutting efforts and executive exits
Hot on the heels of yesterday's news of more layoffs at Unity comes the revelation that Amazon is the next to fire staff. As...
