toxicity

This morning, MOP's Sam busted into MOP's work chat with a link to the Fridge Poetry game. "It's more like an art project than a...

At long last, we've reached the fourth and final part of my series detailing my experiences returing to World of Warcraft after six years...

Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news! Business business business and all that. EngineOwning got owned - File this one...

Keeping toxic voice speech under heel in FPS games might sound like a Sisyphean effort, but Activision is giving it the old college try...

The gaming community can often be described as "passionate" primarily because "frothingly and needlessly acidic about things that ultimately do not matter" is too...

Recently, RIFT was back in the news, offering free subscription time to new and returning players. While I salute Gamigo's generosity here, whenever the topic...

This year's State of the Game Industry from GDC - its 11th since beginning the project - delivers a range of insights from the...

The topic of toxic and hateful online gaming communities has risen in the headlines in recent weeks, particularly as the matter earned governmental attention....

A lot of MMO studios talk a big talk about listening to player feedback, but whether or not they put out surveys to solicit...

To be fair, some effort is better than no effort, but one also has to raise their eyebrows at Ubisoft's Fair Play Program, which...

The fact that Steam is extremely hands-off in regard to moderation isn't really news. Readers will recall it was referenced in a video report...

According to a December report from the Anti-Defamation League, extremism in online gaming is on the rise for the fourth year in a row....

Riot Games is not a gaming company most folks in our industry would consider a paragon of community in or off the court. The...

There are plenty of shooter games out there in the discovery page of Roblox, but some creators of these kinds of games saw fit...

Earlier in the week Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment openly spoke out against the toxic portions of its playerbase, outlining a zero tolerance policy...

Wizard101 is normally associated with kid-friendly fun, but over the past weekend it got decidedly more adult in terms of its language as someone...

There's been some drama unfolding in EVE Online recently, the kind of drama that is at once not surprising when you see the cast...

Ideally, an MMO patch day should be filled with delight and exploration. Sometimes, however, there's a sense of dread, especially when the developers start...

Last May, Riot Games confirmed that Valorant would begin recording portions of in-game voice comms for the purposes of fighting back against toxic behavior....

The MOP community has been discussing moderation in MMORPGs quite a bit this week, and now here comes Discord to add another angle to...