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Crowdfunded game company Ouya is looking for a buyer to pay off debts
Ouya Inc, the creator of an Android-based microconsole, generated a lot of hype after its incredibly successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter that raised over $8.5 million, but after all the buzz around the “new kind of video game console” died down, the company ran into some serious financial troubles and is now looking for a ...
Facebook exec criticizes Europe’s disjointed privacy regulations
Facebook has had plenty of privacy troubles in the U.S., but some of its toughest battles are currently taking place in Europe. Last year, a U.K. commission criticized the social network’s privacy policy, saying reading it is “like engaging with Shakespeare.” In February, a report from a watchdog group hired by the Belgian government determined that Facebook’s privacy ...
Facebook’s recent API changes actually improve privacy for once
Facebook Inc has a long and complicated history when it comes to internet privacy, and more often than not, the company has been accused of all sorts of privacy violations, including claims that the social network violated privacy laws in the European Union. At Facebook’s F8 conference in 2014, the company announced that it would be answering some ...
Pinterest launches new API tools to help marketers
Pinterest has announced a new program called Marketing Developer Partners (MDP), which will provide new tools to allow businesses to better utilize Pinterest as a platform to advertise their goods and services. “People use Pinterest to plan their future, which is why content from businesses is essential in helping people discover the creative things they want ...
Valve backpedals on paid mods, removes them from Steam Workshop
Valve Corp.’s experiment with paid mods on Steam Workshop has proven to be a short-lived one, as the company has announced that it has decided to remove the feature after an overwhelmingly negative response from the Steam community. Less than a week ago, the company announced that content creators would be able to sell mods ...
Facebook Messenger takes on Skype with free VOIP video calls
In a move that pretty much everyone expected, Facebook Inc has announced that its standalone Messenger app will now support free video chat. Facebook originally turned a lot of people off of Messenger when it forced users to install a separate app if they wanted to continue chatting with their friends through Facebook, but the social network ...
Jackalope Jobs combines your social network with smart job searches
Job hunting is the worst. After you spend hours navigating hundreds of job boards and company career sites, you send out a few dozen resumes and hope that at least a handful will make it into the hands of an actual, real-life person. But more often than not, those job applications get chewed up by any ...
Konami has canceled ‘Silent Hills’ made by Guillermo del Toro and Hideo Kojima
For the last few months, Konami Corp has been a stone wall when it comes to rumors about game legend Hideo Kojima’s exit from the studio, but now the Japanese game developer has announced that it has canceled Silent Hills, a new entry in Kojima’s popular survival horror franchise that was being developed through partnership with director Guillermo del Toro. ...
Valve head Gabe Newell responds to paid mod controversy
When Valve Corp. announced that it would be allowing content creators to sell mods for games like Skyrim through Steam Workshop, it probably did not expect the extremely negative response it got from its users. Fearing that monetization could ruin the open and collaborative nature of the mod community, thousands of gamers have been criticizing the move ...
Minecraft is still the number one game franchise on YouTube
Block-building and wood-punching simulator Minecraft might be trailing behind popular esports titles like League of Legends and Counter Strike: Global Offensive on livestreaming sites like Twitch.tv, but it still leads the pack on YouTube. According to market research firm Newzoo, Minecraft once again topped the video game charts on YouTube with over 3.9 billion views for the month of ...