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Facebook opens its Internet.org platform to all mobile operators
It has been one year since Facebook Inc.’s Internet.org initiative began operating in its first country, Zambia. The program was founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a way to bring affordable mobile internet connectivity to developing countries. For the last year, Internet.org has worked closely with mobile provider partners in countries like Colombia and India, ...
Twitch’s new anti-troll feature won’t solve anything
Popular game livestreaming site Twitch (Twitch Interactive, Inc.) has problems with trolls just like any other online community, especially when it comes to the individual chatrooms for each stream. Now, Twitch is offering a new language gate option for broadcasters that might make their jobs a little easier, or it could simply add a minor inconvenience ...
Fallout 4 stole the show at QuakeCon | #QuakeCon2015
What started as a small fan event at a La Quinta Inn event hall in Garland, Texas, has grown into one of the world’s largest gaming events, and this year’s 20th anniversary of QuakeCon was bigger than ever thanks to the excited buzz surrounding two upcoming games: Bethesda Softworks LLC’s Fallout 4 and Id Software’s Doom. Id surprised fans ...
CD Projekt’s final gift to The Witcher 3 fans is a free New Game Plus DLC
Over the last two months since the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Warsaw-based CD Projekt RED has released over a dozen free DLC for players that have included new quests, weapons, armors, character customizations, and more. Now the Polish game maker has revealed that the final free DLC it will be releasing will be ...
Razer acquires Ouya’s software assets for its own set-top box, Forge TV
After the news broke earlier this year that micro console maker Ouya Inc was desperately looking for buyers to pay off its creditors, the future of the Kickstarter darling looked uncertain. There had been rumors that gaming peripheral company Razer Inc was in talks to buy Ouya, and now it looks like those rumors were true…partially. According ...
Doom multiplayer: first impressions | #QuakeCon2015
Id Software surprised Doom fans at this year’s QuakeCon in Dallas, Texas, when it revealed that it would be letting attendees be the first to try out the multiplayer for the new game. I got the chance to play through a couple of rounds of 6v6 team deathmatch, and while the game is still at least ...
China has finally legalized game console sales—for real this time
China is a massive, mostly untapped market for several industries, and video games are no different. For over 14 years, the Chinese government has maintained a ban on the sale of home video game consoles, and while the ban was effectively lifted earlier this year, the sale of console units was still strictly controlled. Now, those final ...
League of Legends pro suspended for leveling other players for cash
If you get paid to play video games for a living, it is probably not a good idea to engage in activities that could get you kicked from the game, and League of Legends player Yu “XiaoWeiXiao” Xian has learned that lesson firsthand. Xian, who plays mid lane for Team Impulse, has been suspended from the game by Riot ...
Bethesda is releasing a Fallout Anthology that comes in its own mini-nuke case
With the Fallout 4 hype train running full steam ahead, Bethesda Softworks LLC has decided to revisit both the new and old games from the series with an all new Fallout Anthology. The anthology will feature every Fallout game except the console-only Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel and the recent mobile title, Fallout Shelter. This includes the original Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, Fallout 3 and Fallout: ...
ESL moves forward with random drug testing for esports tournaments
The Electronic Sports League (ESL) has moved faster than expected toward combating the abuse of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) during professional esports tournaments, and the organization has announced that it will begin randomly drug testing players. “As the world’s largest and oldest esports organization, ESL has an ongoing commitment to safeguarding both the integrity of ...