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
Unity sheds another 1800 workers from all of its departments in latest layoff round
The contraction of Unity that occurred through last January, May, and November looks to be continuing into this year, as the game engine developer...
Study finds social media game ads don’t properly disclose the existence of lockboxes and in-game purchases
A recent study conducted by legal expert and lockbox researcher Leon Y. Xiao has been completed and it finds that lockbox disclosures in social...
Police use a World of Warcraft account to track down and arrest a man allegedly hiding a minor
We have our first Florida Man story of 2024 on our corner of the internet, primarily because tracking down and finding him involved using...
ARK: Survival Ascended rolls back official servers over a new duping exploit
Just like how there was always that kid who ruined the neighborhood swimming pool by peeing in it, online games suffer when exploiters do...
British police open investigation into an in-game sexual assault in a virtual reality metaverse
Virtual reality games are intensely immersive, putting their players into their worlds and surrounding them in the experience rather convincingly. Unfortunately, that immersion has...
Following Bobby Kotick’s exit, former ABK devs call out his toxic management and Overwatch 2 sabotage
Now that Bobby Kotick has floated away from Activision-Blizzard on a doubtlessly diamond-encrusted platinum parachute, some former developers at Blizzard are feeling confident enough...
Goodbye to all the reasons we can’t have nice things in MMOs, 2023 edition
Become an MMO blogger, they said. It'll be fun, they said. What they forgot to mention is that covering this genre means as many...
Star Citizen releases a new Legatus backer bundle that costs $48,000
Would you rather buy a reasonably reliable car or a whole bunch of internet spaceships? If for some reason you chose the latter, then...
The Day Before Steam keys go for three figures on the grey market as Fntastic announces server closures
We all thought that news from The Day Before was going to end too, but the whole sordid story of this zombie extraction shooter...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen pledges extra test sessions following a cancellation of alpha backer access
Earlier this week, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen ran into a SNAFU with a backend system that ultimately led to Visionary Realms cancelling a...
QA employees accuse Activision-Blizzard of a ‘soft layoff’ after studios mandate a return to offices in January
Activision-Blizzard is once again electing to mistreat its QA employees according to a statement from the A Better ABK proto-union, which accuses the company...
Fortnite’s expensive race cars are now slightly less expensive after players revolt
How much would you be willing to pay for a car in Fortnite? Besides $0 anyway; we see you, commenters. Epic Games asked that...
Activision-Blizzard settles its 2021 California Civil Rights department lawsuit for $50M
Who here wanted one final reminder before the end of the year that we live in a cursed capitalist hellscape where justice can be...
Ubisoft’s 2014 racing game The Crew 1 is sunsetting in March 2024
2023 has one more thing to take away from the greater MMO genre: Ubisoft is sunsetting The Crew, the original game in the driving...
‘Shit happens,’ The Day Before devs tell disgruntled players as mass-refunds continue
We're into day six of The Day Before drama, which certainly doesn't embroil any of you, as our readers were too clever to buy...
The Day Before dev studio announces its closure, claims the game ‘failed financially’
It hasn't even been a week between the early access release of The Day Before and today, but supposedly the game's launch has been...
The Day Before devs downplay original massively multiplayer pitch as playerbase and reviews plummet
When survival shooter The Day Before made its scheduled but disastrous early access launch, multiple players pointed out a wealth of issues with the...
Bungie devs face the ‘soul-crushing’ pressure of financial targets, a Sony takeover, and threat of more layoffs
It's already been reported that life within Destiny 2 and Marathon developer Bungie is extremely unhappy in the wake of recent layoffs and the...
Tree of Savior gets a new Pontifex class… and stuffs its unlock into a lootbox
Tree of Savior is most definitely not hurting for classes as a quick look on its site can attest, but as of this week's...
Star Trek Online now has third-party ship model NFTs as new Cryptic boss DECA opens hiring
Remember back when Star Trek Online announced that it was ending its six-year partnership with GamePrint, bringing to an end the service that allowed...
