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
Club Penguin rogue server shut down following discovery of explicit content
Everyone was kind of sad when Disney shut down Club Penguin back in 2017, but rogue servers seemed an inevitability given the game's popularity....
Chinese World of Warcraft players beg NetEase to rescue them from RMT bot infestation
How is World of Warcraft doing in China? If one player's collected account is anything to go by, not well at all. A Chinese...
Valorant has so far found and banned over 8,000 cheaters, causing sweet cheater tears to flow
As contentious as Valorant's Vanguard anti-cheat process has been, it appears to be yielding some results. According to a tweet from anti-cheat pipeline designer...
The Culling returns, again, with an eyebrow-raising new business model
You all remember The Culling and The Culling 2, right? Xaviant Games tried to launch game-show-themed battle royale The Culling 2 back in 2018,...
Guild Wars 2 has restored the EU servers to Monday morning after multiday rollback
Yesterday, we covered the Guild Wars 2 community's many reports across Reddit and the official forums that the game had suffered a major rollback...
Guild Wars 2’s EU server cluster suffered a multiday rollback this weekend
Back when I first started in MMOs, rollbacks were a daily occurrence, quite literally. Not only was the server likely to crash at least...
Overwatch League team Vancouver Titans loses its entire roster amidst controversy
There has been some talk that the third season of the Overwatch League is kind of crucial for attracting viewers and convincing fans to...
The Nintendo account compromise was real, affecting as many as 160,000 gamers
Earlier this week, we covered a brewing storm in the Nintendo community, as swarms of Switch owners and Nintendo users reported their Nintendo accounts...
Switch owner? Go enable two-factor authentication for your Nintendo account
Multiple sites are reporting this afternoon that Nintendo accounts appear to be under siege. Following a Eurogamer piece yesterday chronicling Nintendo account holders and...
Cartoon Network successfully shut down FusionFall’s rogue servers
Do you remember FusionFall? It was Cartoon Network's attempt at making its own kid-friendly MMO, operating between 2009 and 2013; we took a listen...
ROSE Online’s Japanese operator filed for bankruptcy while promising new content
ROSE Online, a Korean MMO that first launched in 2005 and was shut down in its home country in February 2019 after three years...
ESRB starts putting warnings about lockboxes on its game ratings
You have to imagine that a lot of video game marketers have developed facial twitches today upon the news that they will no longer...
NASCAR driver botches yet another online iRacing esports event
It would appear that NASCAR drivers are no better than the worst esports gamers among us. An iRacing esports event with NASCAR drivers --...
NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace ragequits during an official esports racing event
So apparently NASCAR is hosting an esports event featuring real drivers in a simulated series of races in the racing sim title iRacing. Readers...
Disgruntled Chronicles of Elyria backers seek aid from the Washington attorney general
Ever since Kickstarted MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria went belly-up, players have been trying to figure out what to do about it. Some had sunk...
Kickstarted MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria halts development, lays off all employees
Since its splashy and successful Kickstarter run back in 2016 that raised $1.36 million from MMO gamers, Chronicles of Elyria developed a reputation for...
Fallout 76 studio is grumpy more people didn’t PvP
Do you ever get the impression that Bethesda doesn't quite understand its own game audience? That's probably not going to be helped by a...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most toxic fan-based defense force?
Every single MMO has its own unwanted and unnecessary defense force. We could run a story tomorrow about Final Fantasy XIV selling your credit card...
Activision is trying to locate its Call of Duty leaker via Reddit subpoenas
Yes, that headline is true. Activision is attempting to track down the mysterious person who leaked the cover art of the next Call of Duty...
Activision-Blizzard has apparently yanked its games from GeForce NOW
If you were subbing to NVIDIA GeForce Now for your streamed games, we genuinely hope it wasn't for Activision-Blizzard's games. That's because yesterday Activision-Blizzard...
