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Joystiq rises from the dead as part of Engadget
A few days after Joystiq was shut down by its nebulous AOL overlords and stripped of its specialized publications like Massively and WoW Insider, the video game news site has resurfaced as part of the also-AOL-owned tech news site, Engadget. “[Joystiq X Engadget] is the new home we’re creating on Engadget dedicated solely to gaming coverage,” ...
League of Legends tournament lifts restrictions on LGBTQ players
Garena Philippines eSports has reversed its decision over a controversial a new rule for its upcoming “all-feminine” League of Legends tournament, The Iron Solari, which restricted participating teams to “a maximum of one (1) Gay/Transgendered woman for the entirety of the tournament day.” Garena posted the new rules yesterday, saying: “There are arguments and concerns from other participants ...
Reverse Facebook stalking: the social network can now follow European users
Recent updates to Facebook Inc.’s privacy policy will now allow the social network to track European users’ activity on the web, logging away information such as the links they click on and the websites they visit. The changes to Facebook’s privacy policy went into effect over the weekend, and now the service has more power than ever to ...
Borderlands 3 confirmed by Take Two Interactive
Following statements made during Take Two Interactive’s Q3 earnings call, the company has confirmed that it is working on Borderlands 3, the first main Borderlands title to be released on next-gen consoles. “Looking further ahead, we have a robust long-term pipeline of titles in development, including groundbreaking new intellectual properties and new releases from our proven franchises,” Take ...
Ubisoft reactivates fraudulent game codes for some players
Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. has changed its mind about blocking players who bought game codes from less than reputable sources, and today the company announced that it would be reinstating access to the owners of fraudulent game codes who had already registered and begun playing. The codes in question were purchased from PC game reseller sites ...
Twitter makes account creation easier with instant feeds
Twitter Inc. has been talking about automatically generated news feeds for about a year now, and the microblog service has finally begun testing the first public version of the new feature. While the purpose of Facebook is obvious to most users – keeping up with friends and family – Twitter has a little more difficulty ...
SOE breaks from Sony, renamed to Daybreak Game Company
In a surprise announcement on Reddit, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) CEO John Smedley says that the game developer is breaking away from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. after 20 years with the company. SOE has been the developer behind several popular MMOs, including Everquest, Star Wars Galaxies, and Planetside. It is also the developer of zombie survival game H1Z1, which ...
Club Nintendo adds over 100 free games before shutdown
Club Nintendo began in 2003 as a way of rewarding loyal Nintendo fans with games, merchandise and other goodies. Now, after more than a decade, Club Nintendo is shutting down, but not before giving fans one last batch of rewards, which includes downloads of 117 Nintendo Games. Items on Club Nintendo can be purchased with coins, ...
What the Super Bowl video game ads mean for gaming
This year saw three different video games advertised during the Super Bowl, and they all had one thing in common: they were all mobile games. Super Bowl ads cost $4.5 million for a 30-second clip, and that is not even counting the cost of making the commercial or hiring a well known model like Kate Upton ...
Facebook users threatened by porn-based malware
That porn video one of your Facebook friends shared could be more than an embarrassing mistake—it could be a malware program that has already infected thousands of users across Facebook. Threatpost reports that the Trojan has infected over 110,000 systems in only two days. The malware posts a link to a pornographic video on a user’s Facebook ...
