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
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...
Red Dead Online hackers are attacking with spooky scary two-headed skeletons
It's always nice to think that while hackers are destroying your game experience and generally making an unfounded nuisance out of themselves for no...
New French lawsuits accuse EA’s FIFA franchise of promoting illegal gambling
None of the FIFA titles is a pure MMO, of course, but every MMO player interested in how monetization across the industry is being...
Cliff Bleszinski now claims LawBreakers failed because it was ‘too woke’
Well, that's it, everyone. Shut it down. The English language had a pretty good run, but it's over now. Cliff Bleszinski, also known as...
Debate rages over a Fortnite streamer landing out-of-bounds in a charity tournament
There's a bit of a row happening in the Fortnite community about whether or not a streamer cheated in a charity tournament last Thursday. Except...
Warcraft 3: Reforged is now apparently offering instant refunds with no official statement from Blizzard
Fortunately for Blizzard, after the not-great launch of Warcraft III: Reforged, everything blew over... by which we mean things got significantly worse, to the point of...
EA aims to mask active user numbers in investor earnings reports
Don't call it hiding anything, just call it select data provisioning! Electronic Arts COO and CFO Blake Jorgensen has said that future earnings reports...
Kentucky high school athletic commission bans Fortnite from high school esports competition
The Kentucky High School Athletics Association (KHSAA) has officially called for the removal of Fortnite from high school esports competition, expressing concern at the...
US Court of Appeals upholds decision that a RuneScape player’s muting did not violate free speech
The 3rd Circuit US Court of Appeals has effectively squashed any further action by one Amro Elansari, a RuneScape player who claimed that Jagex's...
Riot Games’ $10M settlement could climb to $400M due to California state agency filings
Allow us to recount events for a moment: In 2018, a Kotaku expose blew the lid off of a deeply alarming "bro culture" work...
Chronicles of Elyria dev blog’s ‘mood piece’ turns out to be ‘photobashed stock art’
The idea of a mood board, which collects a variety of images from various sources to bring inspiration, isn't exactly a foreign one. Perhaps...
Presidential hopeful Joe Biden calls out Silicon Valley game devs as ‘creeps’
It would appear that US presidential hopeful and former vice president Joe Biden has an unkind view of most Silicon Valley tech companies and...
The fun when some dude yoinks an airport map screen to play Apex Legends
Look, sometimes you just need to play video games real bad.
The original story appears to be gone from the radio station's blog, but the...
Fortnite canonizes content creators with their own in-game skins
We guess it pays to shill as hard as you can for a game because you never know when the developers are going to...
