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Facebook reportedly working with record labels to bring music to your News Feed
Facebook is continuing on its campaign to bring more video content to your News Feed whether you like it or not, and now reports have surfaced that the social network may be working with record labels to bring official music videos to the service. According to reports from Music Ally, Facebook is supposedly working with record labels ...
Games get more views on YouTube, more money on Twitch
Selling games is no longer the only way to make money in the video game industry, as a new report by analytics firm SuperData Research Inc reveals that game video content is worth over $3.8 billion annually. The content measured by the report includes “recorded gameplay, reviews and anything that engages the gaming community.” This also ...
Facebook rolls out new tools to give users more control over their News Feed
Facebook announced several major new additions to News Feed today aimed at giving you more control over the types of content you want to see. “The goal of News Feed is to show you the stories that matter most to you,” Product Manager Jacob Frantz wrote in a blog post. “To do this, we use ranking to ...
How League of Legends fights player abuse with machine learning
Riot Games has been facing a long uphill battle against League of Legends’ notoriously toxic player base, but it appears those efforts are finally paying off. According to Lead Game Designer Jeffrey Lin, Riot has successfully lowered abusive behaviors to just 2 percent of LoL matches through a combination of machine learning, game design, and community policies. “As ...
GOG promises it is “as ready as can be” for Windows 10
DRM-free online game seller GOG.com says that it is working hard to be ready for the upcoming release of Windows 10, which is slated for the end of the month. “We’re getting ready for Windows 10 and putting our QA Team at full capacity to test the games we (and you!) are looking forward to play ...
Disney launches Star Wars app with augmented reality, minigames, and more
The Walt Disney Company released a new Star Wars app today that gives users access to news feeds, mini-games, selfie tools, augmented reality features, and more. The new free app, which Disney has dubbed “your official mobile connection to a galaxy far, far away,” launched today on iOS and Android, and as far as movie tie-in apps ...
Sony announces Twitch partnership to livestream smartphone games
Sony Mobile Communications Inc. announced today that it would be partnering with popular video game livestreaming service provider Twitch Interactive Inc. to stream mobile games from Xperia devices. According to Sony, their new Twitch app will allow users to livestream their mobile games from an Xperia Z3+, Xperia Z4, Xperia Z4v, or the Xperia Z4 Tablet. ...
Riot Games invests nearly $30 million in online game tools provider Curse Inc.
Riot Games, the developer behind the fabulously lucrative MOBA League of Legends, has invested nearly $30 million in Curse Inc., a company that provides numerous tools for online games including mod and add-on libraries and installers, game wikis, news sites, voice chat programs, and more. Curse first began in 2006 as a repository for World of Warcraft add-ons, ...
Teen responsible for Xbox Live and PSN holiday outages convicted of 50,700 counts of computer crime
The 2014 holiday season was fraught with network outages for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, and now the Finnish teen who was allegedly responsible for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that brought them down has been convicted of 50,700 counts of computer crime. The charges against 17-year-old Julius “zeekill” Kivimaki include fraud, data breaches and harassment, ...
Fallout 4 wins E3’s top meaningless award | #E32015
The hype surrounding Bethesda Game Studios’ Fallout 4 has only gotten stronger since the studio held its first ever E3 press conference in June, and now the game has been given the industry’s highest pointless honor. The E3 Game Critics Awards have named Fallout 4 the Best of Show, meaning that out of all of the unreleased games or ...