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MMO Business Roundup: Saudi Arabia’s EA, UK’s games shadow council, and escaping from Tarkov

3. Prosinec 2025 v 17:30
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! The UK Games Industry Shadow Council: No, this isn’t a secret society that’s extremely bad about being secret; it’s a self-formed group within the UK games industry sector that has been formed to elevate “voices who would like to identify good and poor […]

Roblox’s CEO calls moderation problems ‘an opportunity’ and platform gambling a ‘brilliant idea’ in unhinged interview

24. Listopad 2025 v 16:00
David Baszucki, the CEO of Roblox, has been known to say some pretty outlandish things, but his recent interview with the New York Times might have ended up being a carpet bombing of poorly considered answers, as he tried to spin problems into “opportunities” and speak positively about tech additions that are anything but positive. […]

Following a goofy delay, Ubisoft’s financials arrive with a progress report on the Tencent partnership

21. Listopad 2025 v 17:30
If you happened to be holding any stock in Ubisoft, this past week might have frayed some of your nerves, as the gaming company announced that its fiscal report for the first half of the year was being delayed and that share trading would be temporarily halted. As one might expect, this ended up causing […]

Former Halo MMO project dev believes it was killed to pad a former executive’s bonus

8. Listopad 2025 v 00:00
Back in 2021 we first reported on the fate of an in-development Halo MMO project as told by former developer Sandy Petersen, who recounted how the title and its developer Ensemble Studios were effectively taken apart by corporate politicking by Microsoft and then-Xbox head Don Mattrick. Well now, Petersen is back to talk about this […]

Krafton heralds record-breaking profits and an ‘AI first’ focus in latest quarterly earnings report

7. Listopad 2025 v 22:00
PUBG and Subnautica publisher Krafton has said the two things that investor boards apparently love to hear in their earnings reports: profits are up, up, up, and it’s going to go all-in on AI. That’s essentially what’s being touted by the company in its third quarter earnings report for 2025, which has brought in record-breaking […]

The courts have cast doubt on Epic Games and Google’s agreement to settle their long-running legal dispute

7. Listopad 2025 v 19:30
It’s been a five year-long kaiju fight between Epic Games, Apple, and Google, as Epic took both corporations to court back in 2020 over what were considered monopolist policies related to third-party payment processing. And while most of the focus was zeroed in on the Epic vs. Apple fight, there was also a ruling in […]
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