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Facebook’s Internet.org faces growing resistence from net neutrality orgs
Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been forced more and more to defend his Internet.org initiative against accusations of violating net neutrality, and now a coalition of 65 advocacy organizations from 31 countries have sent an open letter to the Facebook founder, calling for changes to be made to the Internet.org platform. “We, the undersigned, share a common ...
Mass Effect director Casey Hudson joins Microsoft Studios to work on HoloLens
Former Mass Effect project director and BioWare executive Casey Hudson is now the creative director of Microsoft Studios, where he will be working on “Microsoft HoloLens, Xbox, and other awesome projects.” Hudson made a name for himself at BioWare as the project director of the critically acclaimed RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and he later ...
Del Toro and Kojima ‘having a blast’ until Silent Hills cancellation
Konami Corp disappointed many horror game fans when it cancelled development of Silent Hills, and no one was more disappointed than acclaimed film director Guillermo Del Toro, who had been working on the game in partnership with Silent Hill creator Hideo Kojima. According to Del Toro, production had been going great until Kojima’s unexpected split from the game studio. ...
Twitch adds option that cuts streaming delays by a third
Popular game video site Twitch.tv has been one of the driving factors behind the growing livestreaming and esports movement, and now Twitch has made huge improvements to its systems that have reduced delay in live feeds by up to 33 percent. “We’ve successfully cut the video segment size from four seconds to two seconds, ...
Oculus releases recommended specs for Rift, pauses development for Mac and Linux
It has been a long road to a consumer release for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, and it is not over yet, but today Oculus VR took one step closer by finally revealing the device’s recommended system specs. “Presence is the first level of magic for great VR experiences: the unmistakable feeling that you’ve been ...
Popular arcade game emulator MAME is going open source
Unlike most vintage console or computer games, arcade games can be both difficult to find and expensive to buy, so many arcade fans use emulators to create their own homebrewed arcade systems. The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) has become the most popular emulator for gamers who want to play classic arcade games in their home, and now ...
Belgian privacy watchdog says Facebook ‘tramples on’ European law
Belgium’s Privacy Protection Commission has accused Facebook Inc of treating users’ privacy “with contempt” and being uncooperative when it comes to the commission’s investigation of the social media company’s privacy policies. “Facebook tramples on European and Belgian privacy laws,” the Belgian commission said in a statement after publishing a report on the changes Facebook had made to ...
World of Warcraft’s huge drop in subscriptions ‘not surprising,’ says lead designer
For a game that is over 10 years old, World of Warcraft remains surprisingly strong, especially compared to most other MMOs. The game’s subscription numbers soared to a surprising 10 million users at the release of its most recent expansion, Warlords of Draenor, but that number has since dipped to only 7.1 million a few months later. While ...
EON Reality opens VR technology school near Dallas
California-based virtual reality company EON Reality has announced the inauguration of a new school in North Texas that is dedicated to training and educating a “digital content workforce” in the creation of virtual and augmented reality media. The Duncanville Entrepreneur School is the result of a partnership between EON Reality and the City of Duncanville, a small suburb located ...
Tencent remains the largest game company despite slowed profits
Chinese technology firm Tencent Holdings is not as well known as companies like Electronic Arts Inc or Activision Blizzard Inc, but over the last few years, it has quietly become the largest company in gaming thanks to a series of investments and acquisitions. While the company’s recent Q1 earnings have shown a significant slowdown in ...