During my time at the 2016 SMITE World Championship, I had the chance to sit down with co-founder and COO of Hi-Rez Studios, Todd Harris.
You may recall approximately one month ago when Breitbart published a report that Riot Games, the developer behind League of Legends, started changing player usernames they deemed offensive and requesting that they take part in a mental health survey.
A video from The Rubin Report discussing the growing culture of censorship on U.S. campuses was recently censored by a moderator on Reddit, despite its popularity among users.
Pornhub’s Insights blog is a guiltier pleasure than their actual site — it’s data porn about porn. It turns out gamers change their porn viewing habits around new releases, or at least for Fallout 4.
Campus activists in America showed their true faces during an international tragedy last night: they are the selfish, spoiled children we knew they were. Black Lives Matter and Mizzou protesters responded to the murder of scores of people in Paris at the hands of Islamic extremists by complaining about losing the spotlight and saying their “struggles” were being “erased.”
ProPublica, a nonpartisan journalism outlet I’ve done a bit of pro bono work for in the past, has released a story about how Vizeo’s smart TVs ship with an on-by-default setting that shares quite a bit of fairly invasive information, like very specific viewing habits. This includes a possibly unencrypted IP, since in their recently updated privacy policy they don’t promise that IPs will be encrypted.
The Islamic State’s affinity for social media takes another grim turn, as users of an ISIS message channel can now download graphics of Islamist flags, beheadings, and immolations to spice up their chat sessions and text messages.
Music streaming service Spotify has implemented political censorship on its platform, marking another step in the transition of neutral online platforms to moral censors. It has begun with an easy target, white nationalist bands. Who could object to the censorship of white nationalists?
The Tor Project, which creates free software for anonymous web browsing, has accused Carnegie Mellon University of working with the FBI to compromise its network, but the FBI has denied the allegations.
ESports investor Trig Social Media had their Stockholm offices raided by authorities in relation to their investigation for stock market fraud and financial impropriety. The raids are the latest chapter in a lengthy tale of delusions of grandeur, lies, and ultimately failure since Trig announced their involvement in eSports in December 2014.
Following Breitbart’s report that North American organisation Team Solo Mid were looking to pry Danish League of Legends jungler Dennis “Svenskeren” Johnsen away from comparative European minnows H2K, things are starting to get ugly.
The ambitious sandbox MMORPG Gloria Victis gets a new gameplay trailer.
The classic Pokemon titles from the original Game Boy are coming to the Nintendo 3DS to download through the Nintendo eShop.
Final Fantasy VII protagonist Cloud Strife is being added to the roster of fighters for Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 3DS and WiiU.
Amazon has received threats of boycott from customers for selling infamous Canadian serial killer and rapist Paul Bernado’s book on the Amazon Kindle store.
Facebook’s Global Government Requests Report was released on Wednesday, and it showed a tremendous surge in requests for user account data from governments around the world, topped by the government of the United States. The governments of Turkey and India were cited as the most aggressive in censoring Facebook pages.
The mainstream gaming press isn’t the only group that thinks gamers don’t need to be their audience. This belief appears to have spread to the leadership of a gaming charity that has raised millions of dollars… from gamers. Today’s veterans rely
Justice for Men and Boys, a British political party whose founder, Mike Buchanan, is a familiar face to those interested in men’s affairs, is hosting an International Conference on Men’s Issues in London in July. I am not a men’s
(Ferenstein Wire)—Silicon Valley is coming after unionized industries. A top investor in the Valley, Paul Graham, lit up Twitter, tweeting, “Any industry that still has unions has potential energy that could be released by startups. (I don’t mean in simply paying people less, but rather that industries afflicted by unions are sclerotic so have left lots undone.)”
The World Fantasy Awards have announced that their awards will no longer be represented by a likeness of H.P. Lovecraft. The announcement came at their annual convention, as first reported by Locus Magazine.
Call of Duty: Black Ops III was released on Friday to praise throughout the video game press. This new installment of the bestseller series was not only “the biggest and most feature packed Call of Duty to date,” but also now had the option for players to viciously murder the enemy whilst in possession of that most feared of weapons – a vagina.
My horse is swift, my torch is bright, and I’ve got a sack full of sweet, sweet gold to throw right at peasants. I may be a harsh taskmaster, but you’ll all thank me once it gets dark and the monsters come. There’s a blood moon tonight, and anybody who’s shovel-leaning needs to hop to it. In Kingdom, you are the job creator the world needs.
Two Silicon Valley companies that import foreign software engineers for Apple and other firmss were fined and banned from the controversial H-1B visa program for underpaying what are already cheap foreign tech workers.
Players get a look at the factions and heroes in Mordheim City of the Damned’s story campaign, the upcoming turn-based tactical RPG based in Games Workshop’s Warhammer universe.
This trailer details the content that will be added over the next year to Rainbow Six Siege for owners of the Season Pass.
That’s how tech and mainstream news outlets irresponsibly and negligibly reported on false rape accusations against Silicon Valley venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, who was convicted in the media long before he cleared his name in court.
