Genshin Impact agrees to pay a $20M fine to the FTC and halt gacha sales to players under 16
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by Chris Neal
34m ago
Regular players of Genshin Impact already know that in order to add characters to the roster, they’re going to have to buy currency to spend on gacha pulls, but the methods that drive sales of that currency has earned the game and developer Hoyoverse a $20M fine to the US Federal Trade Commission and the ..read more
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Marvel Snap is still inaccessible to US players despite TikTok’s ban reversal
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by Chris Neal
34m ago
This past weekend’s kerfuffle over legislators banning – and then reversing – TikTok in the US might have been solved for those who love the short-form video app, but it looks as if that reinstatement still hasn’t applied to players of Marvel Snap yet. At the time of this writing, the digital CCG is still ..read more
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The Daily Grind: What rewards are actually worth backing for in an MMORPG Kickstarter?
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by Bree Royce
2h ago
News of Stars Reach’s impending Kickstarter has been the big MMORPG story of the last week and change, but there’s been one tidbit that’s sort of fallen through the cracks: The team hasn’t actually fully locked in its Kickstarter reward plans yet and has been directly asking players what they’d even want to pay for ..read more
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MMO Week in Review: Stars Reach, B&S NEO, and the RuneScape bungle
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by Bree Royce
13h ago
Well, that was a weird week. We worried over Stars Reach, contemplated the genre’s demographics, laid out a plan for returning to LOTRO’s new servers, took a look at Aloft, welcomed the reveal of Blade & Soul NEO, signed up for Craig Morrison’s Horse Mystery MMO (definitely a real and final name), and bought some ..read more
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Lynked Banner of the Spark’s upcoming Frostbyte patch features rain and snow alike
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by Eliot Lefebvre
16h ago
Lynked Banner of the Spark is showing off its soon-arriving Frostbyte patch, and guess what? It features weather! Weather from the classic “things falling out of the sky onto the ground below” family, even, currently including rain and snow. Not included are that thing where it rains and snows at the same time or when ..read more
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The MOP Up: RIFT gets some surprising API improvements
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by Justin Olivetti
18h ago
Already we’re checking off the “something positive happens for RIFT” square in our 2025 bingo card, as Gamigo’s team invested some time improving the MMO’s event API for players to use. “We have an important update to share about the Event API, generally used for event trackers, such as YARET,” said the developers on Discord ..read more
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Cubic Odyssey is Gaijin’s new sci-fi voxelbox, boasting optional co-op and launching this year
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by Bree Royce
19h ago
Minecraft plus No Man’s Sky seems to be a permanently hot genre mash-up right now, and Romanian studio Atypical Games is getting in on the trend with its upcoming multiplayer game Cubic Odyssey, published by War Thunder studio Gaijin Entertainment. The devs call it an “an open-world adventure where a player explores vibrant planets, crafts ..read more
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Elder Scrolls Online offers a chance to earn 10 years’ worth of previous event rewards January 23
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by Chris Neal
22h ago
Did you think the 10-year-anniversary for Elder Scrolls Online was over? Not so fast, friend, because the MMORPG is kicking off one last hurrah that references the major milestone, which will let players rake in a decade’s worth of past rewards in one omnibus of an event. The Pan-Tamriel Celebration is once again an event ..read more
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One Shots: Someone go get the vacuum cleaner
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by Justin Olivetti
23h ago
Stop! Nobody move an inch or you’ll get cut! Go get your mom and tell her that we need the vacuum cleaner ASAP. Someone broke all the glass and left this mess for us to pick up. Of course, it’s Greaterdivinity’s fault: “Alas, this weekend’s Path of Exile 2 update announcement and interview didn’t do ..read more
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The US TikTok ban took out mobile CCG Marvel Snap and mobile RPG Watcher of Realms
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by Chris Neal
23h ago
This week we have a classic case of the complex connection between one company and its multiple revenue streams, the geopolitical landscape, and how snap decisions can have some more wide consequences than first supposed. The congressional decision to ban TikTok in the US over concerns that the app’s owner ByteDance was sending American users ..read more
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