ArcticStorm Studios was an American video game development company based in Irvine, California. It is best known for developing an MMORPG Skycraft, published in 1999, which became one of the most played online games and continued receiving updates for over two decades. While Skycraft gained a devoted following with its base game and early expansions, the later business practices in 2020s, during a period when Clint Morris was the company's CEO, it brought negativity and controversy from a large portion of the players for its use of micro-transactions, "macro-transactions", invasive links to the game store and inclusion of loot boxes which in practice could have only been purchased with real money (the only alternative was to use in-game gems, with one gem being obtained by collecting 100 gem shard, with one gem shard having a 5% chance of being obtained if a player spent 200 hours combating enemies in a specific location) and despite majority of users of loot boxes being between the ages of 7 and 14. The company also exhibited a pattern of purchasing other companies with successful titles and implementing micro-transactions in their video games, receiving backlash from those games' player base followed by a massive abandonment of those video games, making large pay cuts to the development team after the abandonment and eventual end of support for the game due to the loss of the player base. On August 2025, the company released a trailer for a new expansion pack, Skycraft: Journey to the Shadow Realm, which contained fake gameplay footage and which generated excitement from the players. On 7 September 2025, while the excitement was still high, the company released an early access for the said expansion pack which received massive negative reviews from both the critics and the players because of it's bland look, lack of features and that the expansion obviously didn't even reach the point in the development that was advertised, greatly damaging the company's reputation. After the developer team finished the real expansion pack, Morris had most of its content deleted and the expansion recreated as a battle royale expansion instead with the goal of capitalizing on the trendiness of other battle royale titles and attracting a different types of players to the Skycraft community.