Oh Ubisoft! What can I say about Ubisoft that hasn’t already been said about Flint’s water supply? Ubisoft confuses me as a gamer and as a guy who writes about games. On one hand, they are constantly pulling maneuvers that make you wonder what chucklehead is driving the vehicle. On the other hand, they’re competent … Continue reading “2019 Developer Report Cards: Ubisoft Edition”
Yea, we’re still talking about Blizzcon. It’s been a while since I talked about the whole nontroversy surrounding Blizzard and the prize pool for World of Warcraft’s Blizzcon tournaments, so I will sum up for those who don’t feel like clicking the link in this paragraph. Blizzard sold digital toys with 25% proceeds going toward … Continue reading “Community Concerns: The Importance of Reading Comprehension”
The success of World of Warcraft Classic could only come as a shock to J. Allen “You think you do but you don’t” Brack, but to the rest of the world the idea that the classic servers brought back a lot of players isn’t surprising in the least. Activision released their third quarter statements for … Continue reading “Call of Duty, WoW Classic Make Activision Blizzard Mucho Dinero”
RuneScape. Financially the game is in a fantastic position; back in May we discussed how Jagex had posted a 9.3% increase in overall revenue with subscription numbers at their highest ever in the game’s history thanks to the launch of Old School mobile. But all has not been great on the western front. MMO Fallout … Continue reading “Jagex Will Discuss RuneScape Monetization On November 5 Stream”
As I have said over the past couple of weeks, the best thing that Blizzard could do with Blizzcon 2019 is to give the audience what they want. Blizzcon 2019 is officially upon us and it started with President J. Allen Brack coming out and apologizing for the company’s actions and response to criticism following … Continue reading “Blizzcon 2019: Blizzard Eats Humble Pie, Gives Audience What They Want”
Epic Games is moving forward with its lawsuit against Acceleration Bay (ABC) following an order denying the defendant’s motion to dismiss. Taking the initiative upon itself, Epic Games filed suit several months ago against Acceleration Bay, seeking a declaratory judgment that their game Fortnite did not infringe on patents owned by the defendant. The lawsuit … Continue reading “IPE Update: Epic Games v. ABC Moving Forward”
It’s 8:30p.m. on Friday here in New York, which means the folks at Blizzard HQ in California are about to go home and most Youtubers are probably polishing off their nightly news videos. So much like Daybreak choosing to lay people off, Blizzard naturally picked this as the best time to release their response to … Continue reading “Blizzard Makes Statement Now That It’s Closing Time On Friday”
Nearly two months ago Epic Games filed a lawsuit against Acceleration Bay LLC seeking declaratory judgment from the court in regard to allegations that Epic was using technology owned by AB in one of its many patents. Acceleration Bay filed a motion to dismiss on lack of subject matter jurisdiction (wrong court) as well as … Continue reading “IPE Update: Acceleration Bay Files MTD Against Epic Games”
It’s that time again. This past week saw roughly 250 new games listed to the Steam store, and odds are a large portion of them are absolute trash. Actually, I can confirm that most of them look like absolute trash considering that out of those that actually came out, I could only find maybe sixteen … Continue reading “[Not Massive] Another Week Of Interesting Steam Releases”
Donde los yikes! And some of you thought it wouldn’t get any crazier than Jagex suing anonymous cheaters. Those of you who follow internet drama very closely may recall that last month there was a bit of a controversy surrounding the Artifact category of Twitch streams. Specifically that people were using the service to stream … Continue reading “In Plain English: Remember the Artifact Twitch Trolls? Twitch Is Suing Them”
MMO Fallout 