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Facebook Messenger adds chat ID feature for info on non-friends
Facebook Inc’s development of Messenger marches on as the chat services gets a new chat ID feature to help users identify new contacts on messages from non-friends. The Messenger app now adds a snippet of publicly shared personal bio information to first time messages, adding identifiers like location and job title. The features works for both non-friends ...
Rockstar Games is suing BBC over GTA TV movie
Rockstar Games’ parent company Take-Two Interactive has thrown a wrench into BBC’s plans to make Game Changer a 90-minute TV movie about the Grand Theft Auto developer. This week, Take-Two announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the British media company to halt production on Game Changer. The feature would be a dramatization of the conflicts between Rockstar President Sam ...
QuizUp trivia app relaunches as a social network
Over the last year or two, social media has been slowly creeping into gaming, with some games like World of Warcraft even getting built-in Twitter integration. Now, mobile app QuizUp seems to be doing this process in reverse, as the popular trivia game relaunches itself with its own built-in social networking features. Since launching in 2013, ...
AMD chief scientist accuses Nvidia of sabotaging Witcher 3 performance
In the world of video game graphics, AMD is like the Pepsi to Nvidia’s Coca Cola. They have been battling for gaming supremacy for over a decade now, especially in high-end PC graphics, and much like the Cola Wars, the two companies are not above taking a few public potshots at one another. In an ...
Adblock Plus launches Adblock Browser for Android
Already the bane of web marketers everywhere, the makers of the popular ad-blocking software Adblock Plus are taking their service a step further by releasing their own mobile browser for Android that natively blocks advertisements. “Today we are pleased to announce Adblock Browser for Android, our first foray into a more complete mobile ad blocking solution ...
Smedley promises to unban H1Z1 cheaters if they publicly apologize
This week, Daybreak Game Company President John Smedley announced via Twitter that the company had just banned nearly 25,000 cheaters from its popular zombie survival game H1Z1, but booted players may get a second chance at the game if they are willing to embarrass themselves on video. Smedley revealed that 24,837 players had been banned for ...
Reports linking video games with Alzheimer’s ‘a clear exaggeration’
Most science reporting these days has about as much respectability as a tabloid gossip column. Unfortunately, the general public is all too eager to believe scare tactics or trumped up claims, whether it is claims that vaccines cause autism (they do not) or claims that scientists may have cured HIV (they have not). Studies on the ...
USC opens program to help students found game studios
The University of Southern California already has a reputation for running the country’s top ranked game design program, but now the university will do more than teach students how to make games: It will teach them how to make game companies. The USC Games program offers instruction in multiple facets of game creation, but while ...
Why Dallas is having a coworking boom
While technology may have freed many workers from the confines of the 9 to 5 office, there are still some things you just can’t do from the comfort of your own home. For one thing, even most tech nomads need human interaction, and entrepreneurs still need a place to meet with potential investors or clients. The ...
Oculus Rift will be open to all software—including porn
As Oculus Rift inches closer and closer to its official consumer releases slated for early 2016, the Facebook Inc-owned company is progressively revealing more details about the virtual reality device. Responding to a question about X-rated virtual reality media and apps, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey responded that the company has no plans to block such content. “The ...