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Facebook, LinkedIn team up to encourage more women in tech jobs
A large gender disparity has existed in computer science since the field was first created, but over the last few years, that disparity has been growing rather than shrinking. In 1985, 35 percent of computer science majors were women. Today, they make up only 18 percent. This trend has Facebook Inc. COO Sheryl Sandberg worried ...
Valve adds new inventory tool for Steamworks Developers
Valve corporation has announced a new tool that will allow Steam Developers to easily sell or reward players with in-game items based on variables like play time and achievements. “With this service, a game can easily drop items to customers based on playtime or can grant items based on specific situations or actions within the ...
Activision Blizzard posts record earnings thanks to Destiny, Hearthstone and more
Activision Blizzard Inc. posted a $4.41 billion profit for 2014 thanks to several popular titles, but the company is cautious about 2015, forecasting lower revenues for the year due to foreign exchange rates. Activision Blizzard’s record performance in 2014 can be attributed to its juggernaut franchises, which leads the gaming market in the first-person shooter, ...
Xbox One February update: Game Hubs, better Party Chat, and more…
Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox One console has received its first big system update of the year, adding several new features and improving on some existing ones. “Since Xbox One launched, we made a commitment to listen to feedback from the Xbox Live community and we continue to deliver on that promise,” Microsoft’s Major Nelson wrote. “We’re ...
Facebook’s celebrities-only app gets Twitter and Instagram sharing
Facebook Inc.’s app for the stars has added a few new features to help celebrities better engage with their fans, including built in support for Twitter and Instagram sharing. Unlike the rest of Facebook’s rapidly growing library of apps, Facebook Mentions is only available to well known public figures, namely accounts with verified Facebook pages. ...
Nintendo adds more hoops for YouTubers to jump through
Nintendo Co. Ltd. has never been big on the western fan video community, whether its Let’s Play videos on YouTube or livestreaming matches on Twitch, and now the Japanese game maker has made it even harder for YouTube content creators to make videos using Nintendo games. The company created the Nintendo Creators Program, which works like a registry ...
‘Warhammer: The End Times – Vermintide’ announced with 4-player co-op
War of the Roses developer Fatshark Games is working on a new Warhammer title. Warhammer: The End Times – Vermintide will be a first-person, 4-player co-op game available on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. Rumors about the game surfaced yesterday after a Neogaf user reported that descriptions of the game appeared in a Finnish game magazine. According ...
More CS:GO pro players are facing bans for match fixing
Less than a month after a round of permanent bans were handed out to cheating Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) players for fixing professional tournament matches, another team has become embroiled in the same controversy. French CS:GO team Epsilon has also been accused of fixing tournament matches in order to earn money or items from gambling on the ...
Twitter and Google team up, and Facebook turns 11
According to a report by Bloomberg, microblog service Twitter Inc. has reached a deal with Google Inc. that will make it easier for people to find tweets in Google’s search results. Within the first half of 2015, tweets will become visible in Google search results as soon as they are posted. Rather than the search ...
Original Ultima Underworld team is Kickstarting a true sequel: Underworld Ascendant
After over 20 years since the release of Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds, the original Ultima Underworld team is reuniting as Otherside Entertainment to develop Underworld Ascendant, a true sequel to the Ultima Underworld series. The Ultima Underworld franchise may not have the mainstream name recognition of some other games, but it is one of the most significant game series on ...
