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Former ‘Game of War’ exec arrested by FBI for allegedly stealing trade secrets
The world of mobile game development is apparently even more cutthroat than you might think, as a disgruntled manager at Machine Zone Inc, the studio behind Game of War: Fire Age, has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly stealing trade secrets from his employer. Game of War is a mobile MMO strategy game that is often compared to the more ...
Facebook reveals details about its human-powered virtual assistant ‘M’
News about Facebook’s plans to create a human-powered virtual assistant program leaked in July, when sources speaking to The Information described a personal assistant-like service that was referred to internally as “Moneypenny,” after the James Bond character. Today, Facebook has finally revealed more information about the program, which it is now simply calling M, a new feature ...
How to use the new YouTube Gaming site
After a little more than a month of waiting, Google has finally launched its much-anticipated Twitch competitor, YouTube Gaming, a web and mobile platform that gathers all of YouTube’s thousands and thousands of hours of gaming content in one neat package. The platform is brand new, featuring an interface unlike anything else on YouTube right ...
Divinity: Original Sin 2 is now live on Kickstarter
After the respectable success of its Kickstarter campaign for Divinity: Original Sin, which raised over $944,000, Belgian game company Larian Studios is once again turning to the crowdfunding model for a sequel that it promises will “focus on maintaining everything that made its predecessor so much fun, while still adding new types of tactical opportunities and challenges.” Like ...
YouTube Gaming – Google’s answer to Twitch – launches tomorrow
YouTube may be the reigning champion when it comes to recorded web video, but it still trails a sizeable distance behind Twitch when it comes to live streaming video game content. That may be about to change however with tomorrow’s launch of YouTube Gaming, a web and mobile platform dedicated to a wide variety of ...
Trine may be ending for good after negative reception to Trine 3
Helsinki-based game studio Frozenbyte Inc is one of the good ones. After releasing Trine 2, the successor to its popular 2009 side-scrolling adventure game, the studio ported the original to the new engine and added support for online multiplayer—for free. Anyone who owned the original Trine received the updated Trine: Enchanted Edition upgrade at no cost. The studio also gave a ...
League of Legends will still offer ranked rewards to reformed toxic players
For some time now, the popular MOBA eSports giant League of Legends has had a reputation for a particularly toxic player base, but that is something its developer, Riot Games, has been working very hard to change. In addition to using machine learning to auto-moderate games, Riot has implemented a rehabilitation program, where it works to reform ...
Two players at Pokémon World Championship arrested for death threats, illegal possession of firearms
Professor Oak would be very disappointed in two young Iowans today who were arrested for allegedly making death threats and bringing illegal firearms and ammunitions to the Pokémon World Championship in Boston. Boston Police say that the two men, 18-year-old Kevin Norton and 27-year-old James Stumbo, made violent threats online in reference to the championship, which were ...
SteamDB revisits its open letter to Valve on security practices for Steam
One year ago, fan-made Steam database website SteamDB wrote an open letter to Valve Corp about problems with the way the Washington-based game company approached security on Steam. Now, the authors of the letter, which include members of the Steam gaming community, have revisited their original complaints, commending Valve for the changes it has made while also pointing ...
GameFly launches game streaming service on Samsung Smart TVs
Like Netflix, GameFly started out as a subscription service that allowed users to rent discs that were sent through the mail, and now the company is continuing to follow Netflix’s example by making the transition from physical disc rentals into on demand streaming. Earlier this year, GameFly purchased cloud-streaming service Playcast so it could build its ...