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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Axie Infinity co-founder’s personal Ethereum wallets are caught in $9.5M crypto theft
It's time yet again for another bit of bad news to come out of Axie Infinity, the pay-to-earn crypto-grinder MMO that's most famous for...
Xbox’s Phil Spencer insists Microsoft’s mass-layoffs position it for future growth, somehow
Everyone just loves Phil Spencer these days, right? Oh, right, all the layoffs. Probably not, then. But according to a recent interview with Game...
Microsoft’s layoffs will result in over 800 cut Activision-Blizzard jobs in March
As Microsoft workers reel from news of impending mass-layoffs of 1900 employees, we've received more clarity on which specific Activision-Blizzard teams are being slashed...
Argentinian World of Warcraft players say the game is ‘dead’ after January pricing changes
Argentinian fans of World of Warcraft are sounding the alarm over Blizzard's decision to change both the cost of subscription to the MMORPG and...
Blizzard is laying off over 126 people from its support center in Ireland
The massive culling of 1,900 workers by Microsoft looks to have had a significant global impact, as Ireland's minister for foreign affairs Michéal Martin...
Embracer confirms layoffs of nearly 1400 people were part of efforts to ‘always maximize shareholder value’
It's only mid-February but already we have a lead contender for most vile CEO quote of 2024: Embracer Group's third quarter fiscal report is...
Diablo IV releases its uber unique crafting system, tries selling portal effects for $30
How much would you pay to get some differently colored portal effects in Diablo IV? Evidently Blizzard believes that fans will shell out $30...
Magic to Master goes crypto, ties down a publisher, and eyes a nebulous February early access release window
With all of the loud goose honking that came out of the gaming industry in 2023, it would be understandably easy to have forgotten...
Genshin Impact takes cheat makers to court for copyright infringement
You have to be a special sort of sad to want to cheat in a game like Genshin Impact, let alone one who would...
Microsoft insists Activision-Blizzard was planning on mass layoffs before the merger
As we've been covering, earlier this week the FTC filed a complaint to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, alleging that Microsoft misrepresented itself...
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,...
