DIGITAL
- Latest ‘Google Whistleblower’ To Prove Anti-Conservative Bias Doesn’t Prove Anything And Appears To Be Bigoted Conspiracy Theorist
- Facebook audit of alleged anti-conservative bias fails to pinpoint any
- Facebook, Twitter accuse China of spreading Hong Kong disinformation
- Facebook and Twitter uncover Chinese trolls spreading doubts about Hong Kong protests: Close to 1,000 accounts were found on Twitter alone
- Twitter and Facebook say China-linked accounts sought to fuel political discord in Hong Kong: Twitter said it pulled down 936 troll accounts, many of which pushed conspiracy theories about the protest groups.
- Twitter and Facebook take first actions against China for using fake accounts to sow discord in Hong Kong: Social media giants taking action against a ‘significant state-backed information operation’ related to the protests
- Twitter, Facebook Turn Off Hundreds of Accounts Linked to Chinese Disinformation about Hong Kong Protests: In press releases, the companies say they have shut down Bejing-controlled activity.
- Twitter And Facebook Removing Chinese Disinfo Campaigns Shows That, Contrary To Popular Opinion, They Do Moderate Against Disinfo
- Google, Apple, and Mozilla block Kazakhstan government’s browser spying
- States reportedly plan monopoly investigation of Google, Facebook, Amazon
- WSJ Rightly Attacks Senator Josh Hawley’s ‘Nannyish’ Laws Regarding The Internet
- Another Politician Unconstitutionally Censored Constituents on Twitter–Campbell v. Reisch (Eric Goldman)
- How Beijing wages its media assault on the credibility of the Hong Kong protesters
- Hong Kong Protestors Call for Disney Boycott After ‘Mulan’ Star Voices Support for Police Crackdown
- Hong Kong Protestors Call for ‘Mulan’ Boycott After Star Shares Support for Police Crackdown
- Pushing For Facebook, YouTube And Twitter To Ban Hate Speech Won’t Stop It From Migrating Elsewhere
- Is There A Conspiracy Among Legacy Media Companies To Push A False Narrative About Big Tech?
- 8 Ways to Stay Ahead of Influence Operations: With election meddling inevitable in 2020, the United States needs a powerful kill chain.
- Websites that peddle disinformation make millions of dollars in ads, new study finds
- Cutting the Funding of Disinformation: The Ad-Tech Solution
- It’s On: Details Emerge Of Polish Government’s Formal Request For Top EU Court To Throw Out Upload Filters
- Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder: Our willingness to share content without thinking is exploited to spread disinformation
- Mainland Chinese netizens face ‘pink terror’ of patriotic trolls amid Hong Kong protests
- ‘Humiliating’: Chinese nationalist trolls target critics in Australia
- Anonymous “Anonymous Cowards” are, for now, not welcome on Slashdot
- Altruism Still Fuels the Web. Businesses Love to Exploit It: How open source projects reveal technology’s free rider problem. (Zeynep Tufekci)
- Global regulation threatens to take a bite out of the FAANGs
- Facebook Fined Again: Real Hypothetical Risks
- In New Facebook Effort, Humans Will Help Curate Your News Stories
- Facebook Is Rolling out a Tool to Limit Data Gathering
- YouTube Sues Guy Who Tried To Extort People Through Bogus DMCA Takedowns
- Man sued for using bogus YouTube takedowns to get address for swatting: YouTube sues man for multiple egregious abuses of the DMCA takedown process.
- LGBTQ creators accuse YouTube of discrimination in class-action lawsuit alleging it unfairly restricts and demonetizes queer content
- Lawyers Who Sued YouTube For Anti-Conservative Bias Are Suing YouTube Again… For Anti-LGBTQ Bias
- LGBTQ+ YouTubers Allege that YouTube Engages in Discriminatory Practices
- Lilly Singh Talks Late-Night Production, Says Her YouTube Uploading Schedule “Won’t Be So Rigorous”
- ‘Spill’ Is A Drama YouTuber Who’s Gotten Nearly 1 Billion Views In 11 Months. But She Might Not Be A Real Person.
- YouTube Testing Mega-Sized Thumbnails On Desktop Homepage, Much To Some Users’ Chagrin
- YouTube Will Prevent Manual Copyright Claimants From Monetizing Creators’ Videos With “Short Or Unintentional” Uses Of Music
- YouTube Is Finalizing Plans To Remove Targeted Advertising From Videos Aimed At Kids (Report)
- YouTube will reportedly halt targeted ads for videos that appeal to kids: But how do you decide when a video is targeted at kids?
- YouTube Originals become ad-supported and free after September 24th
- YouTube’s Original Programming To Become Free For All Users On Sept. 24
- The Streamy Awards Pact With YouTube For Exclusive Distribution Deal, Announce Dec. 13 Showdate
- YouTube Is Hiring Partner Managers To Work With Conservative And Liberal News Creators
- YouTube No Longer Commissioning Scripted Originals In EMEA, Orders 3 Education-Focused Projects
- YouTube Is Axing Its Two-Year-Old Direct Messaging Feature In September
- YouTube Links Up With Taylor Swift For Live Event Ahead Of ‘Lover’ Album Release
- Google Testing Monetization Tool That Would Enable YouTubers To Host Virtual Events With Fans
- The death of “Works with Nest” begins now with Google account migrations
- The Meme Generation: Social Media Platforms Address Content Curation
- NBC Gives Lilly Singh A Superpowered Welcome With Hourlong Primetime Special
- Asian Streamer Viu Adds Wattpad Development Deal
- Whitney Cummings did a brave thing
- Using #BrandAmbassador As Your Influencer Disclosure?
- Premier League Social Video Standings Look A Lot Like Typical Season’s Table
- Disney+, ESPN+ Subscribers Might Face Crackdowns On Password Sharing After Disney/Charter Deal
- Disney fights streaming account sharing with help from cable industry
- Disney+ is set to launch on all the major streaming platforms except Amazon
- Disney+ To Launch In 5 Countries On Apple, Google, Roku, Microsoft, And Sony Devices
- Apple TV+ will launch in November for $9.99, facing off against Disney+ at $6.99
- Apple sues company that sells “perfect replicas” of iOS without a license
- Apple Card is now available to all US iPhone owners, adds new cash-back rewards
- Apple delays new rules for kid-focused apps to give devs more room to comply
- Insights: ViacomCBS, Tumblr, And Houseparty – The Companies We Keep, And Those We Can’t
- Twitter tests hiding direct messages it thinks are abusive: ‘Unwanted messages aren’t fun’
- Comments on Rep. Gosar’s “Stop the Censorship Act,” Another “Conservative” Attack on Section 230 (Eric Goldman)
- A Significant Section 230 Defense Win in the Ninth Circuit–Dyroff v. Ultimate Software (Eric Goldman)
- Beto O’Rourke Joins The Silly Parade Of Confused Politicians Looking To Destroy Section 230
- Companies Are Not Complying With the Safe Harbor Provision of the DMCA
- Domain Name Registrar Isn’t Liable for Counterfeit Goods–InvenTel v. GoDaddy (Eric Goldman)
- FTC Settles Email Lawsuit with Unrollme
- Instagram to let US users report false content: Facebook-owned company seeking to stem spread of misinformation by removing dubious posts from searches
- What’s not to like about Instagram’s latest test?
- Former Texas Governor Rick Perry fell for an old-school Instagram hoax
- Reddit Piloting New ‘RPAN’ Livestreaming Feature Over The Next Five Days
- Oh, (No) Snap! CARU Praises Snapchat for Safeguarding the Underaged
- Moviepass Changed User Passwords So They Couldn’t Use The Flopping Service
- Senators Ask for Answers About the Meaning of “Amazon’s Choice”
- Amazon outstrips Netflix on content marketing spend
- What does Amazon’s “Top Brand” badge actually mean?
- For Barstool Sports, Podcasts Are Now Around One-Third of Revenue
- Spotify Is Developing A Stories Feature For Its Playlists
- Spotify to Test a More Expensive Version of Its Popular Music Service
- Ryan ToysReview, Pocket.watch To Premiere Five Specials On Roku’s Just-Launched ‘Kids & Family’ Channel
- Kenyan Government Risks Squandering The Long-Term Potential Of Mobile Transactions In The Hope Of A Little Extra Tax Revenue
- Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram – and Sometimes Even Tinder: Employers see surge in Gen Z CVs containing photos and illustrations; ‘there’s a freaking bitmoji’
- Facebook’s Libra Currency Gets European Union Antitrust Scrutiny
- Law firm BakerHostetler develops blockchain-based smart legal contracts for the freight market
- The Past and Future of The Internet: A Symposium for John Perry Barlow (Duke Law & Technology Review)
A.I.
- International AI ethics panel must be independent: France and Canada are establishing an international committee to advise on the ethics of artificial intelligence. The group should be supported and shielded from undue influence.
- Regulating unreality | The legal implications of “deepfakes”
- There Is No Tech Solution to Deepfakes: Funding technological solutions to algorithmically-generated fake videos only puts a bandage on the deeper issues of consent and media literacy.
- Update: The Illinois Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act
- A Looming AI War: Transparency v. IP Rights
- Don’t Miss: How enemy AI works in Dicey Dungeons
- Music to regulators’ ears? Antitrust, RPM, and AI
- AI – top tips for the board
- YouTube Reportedly Deleting Battlebot Videos Citing Animal Fighting Ban
- AI reads books out loud in authors’ voices
COMMUNICATIONS
- Telus customers’ blood boiling after two days of email outage
- 4-day Telus email outage caused by mishap during repair of data storage service
- Telus offers bill credits as email disruption hits 5th day
- CRTC sets final wholesale rates for access to high-speed broadband networks
- Bell scales back rural internet plans after CRTC decision on rates: Bell will nix 200,000 customers from expansion, Rogers says it is reviewing options
- FCC Chairman Pai Formally Recommends Approval of Sprint/T-Mobile Merger and Associated Dish Requests
- FCC Forgets About, Then Dismisses, Complaint Detailing Verizon’s Long History Of Net Neutrality Violations
- FCC Expands Anti-Spoofing Prohibitions to Foreign-Originated Calls, Text-Messaging Services
- How malformed packets caused CenturyLink’s 37-hour, nationwide outage
- Huawei Busted Helping African Governments Spy On The Press, Political Opponents
- Huawei’s futuristic foldable smartphone gets delayed for a second time
- Report: US expected to give Huawei another 90-day export license
- Report: United States will give Huawei another 90-day export license
- AT&T brings cable TV prices to online streaming with $135 monthly plan
- Useless dads and passive women – first ads banned under the ASA’s gender stereotyping rules
- A new regime for English media and communications cases
PRIVACY
- Privacy Rights in the Internet Age and the New Tort of Public Disclosure of Private Facts
- Attorney General William Barr Declares War On The General Public
- As The NSA Declares Phone Record Program Dead, Trump Administration Asks For A Permanent Reauthorization
- Ring asks police not to tell public how its law enforcement backend works
- California Police Officers Are Handing Out Free Doorbell Cameras In Exchange For Testimony In Court
- Gizmodo Media’s Clueless New Owners Tell Reporters They Can’t Use Encrypted Email Any More
- Ransomware strike takes down 23 Texas local government agencies
- While one Texas county shook off ransomware, small cities took full punch
- The year-long rash of supply chain attacks against open source is getting worse
- Microsoft bucks trend, maintains contractor reviews of voice recording
- Badge life: The story behind DEFCON’s hackable crystal electronic badge
- Kaspersky AV injected unique ID that allowed sites to track users, even in incognito mode
- New Attack exploiting serious Bluetooth weakness can intercept sensitive data
- The GDPR Is A Wide Open Vulnerability For Identity Fraud And Scams
- Concealed Registration Data Under the GDPR Complicates UDRP Complaints
- Can a company decide whether to deidentify information or delete information if it receives a ‘right to be forgotten’ request?
- Ninth Circuit Rejects Facebook’s Article III Argument; Biometric Lawsuit Will Proceed
- Facebook pivots privacy failings into pop-up cafes: The company cares about your privacy. Honestly.
- Ninth Circuit Affirms Ruling that Plaintiffs Have Article III Standing in Illinois Biometric Privacy Class Action
- Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things – is it Time to Regulate?
- NIST Unveils IoT Baseline of Core Cybersecurity Features for Comment
- A cyberattack could wreak destruction comparable to a nuclear weapon
- Still much to be determined on insurance coverage after cyberattacks: Case law on coverage after social engineering fraud is sparse
- FCA introduces 18-month grace period for two-factor authentication for online transactions
- Security Researchers Find Several Bugs in Nest Security Cameras
CREATIVITY
- Copyright law: set for an overhaul? – A look at the key recommendations of two recent House of Commons reports concerning Canadian copyright law
- SCOTUS: Full Costs in Copyright Cases Limited by General Costs Statute
- DOJ/Copyright Office File An Amicus Brief In Support Of Led Zeppellin
- Spider-Man is out of the MCU thanks to Sony/Disney standoff
- THE Ohio State University Applies For THE Stupidest Trademark In THE World
- NC Appeals Court Withdraws Its Horrendous, Free Speech-Damaging Opinion On Retaliatory Arrests
- Loss for Sheriff Joe Arpaio
- They called you a troll, deal with it—court slaps down libel lawsuit
- New Hampshire Supreme Court: Of Course It’s Not Defamatory To Call A Patent Troll A Patent Troll
- White House Suspends Another Reporter’s Press Pass, Once Again, Raising 1st Amendment Concerns
- Missguided Missed Deadline in Kardashian Suit
- Bronze, Shape, Glow: A copyright tale destined for Broadway
- Artist Sues Singer for Shooting then Selling Artwork
- National Gallery discovers hidden secrets in Leonardo painting
- NDA and IP deals
- The Matrix 4 is officially happening with Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss
GAMES
- Why It’s So Hard to Stop Marketing Guns in Video Games: Video games don’t cause mass shootings, but they do serve as insidious advertisements for weapons.
- YouTube sues alleged copyright troll over extortion of multiple YouTubers: Chris Brady seemed to target the Minecraft community, according to the suit
- YouTube Sues User Who Allegedly Tried To Extort ‘Minecraft’ Creators By Filing Fraudulent Copyright Claims
- After canceling one upgrade, Minecraft gets another—and it’s Nvidia RTX exclusive
- Blizzard v Bossland Saga: a UK post-credits scene on account of profits
- DayZ has ban lifted in Australia following modification
- Ion Fury developers apologize for sexist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic remarks: Voidpoint pledges zero-tolerance policy, sensitivity training, game patch, and donation to The Trevor Project
- Ubisoft Entertainment, S.A. et al v. Yousician Oy
- PewDiePie Enters Nth Evolution Of His YouTube Channel, “Just Wants To Play ‘Minecraft’”
- Survey highlights culture of overwork and toxicity in UK games industry: Entertainment union boss describes results as “damning indictment” of industry’s problems
- Denuvo 6.0 has been cracked
- Denuvo launches new mobile game security solution to help devs prevent tampering
- Denuvo launches new mobile game security solution: Mobile Game Protection prevents debugging, reverse engineering, and changing the game
- Google Stadia exclusives push potential players to data centers
- Cyberpunk 2077, more games coming to Google Stadia: Stadia Connect reveals more titles for Google’s upcoming cloud streaming service
- Cyberpunk 2077, exclusive Orcs Must Die 3, and many more now headed to Stadia
- Robot Entertainment CEO: Orcs Must Die 3 “would not be possible without Google” – Patrick Hudson explains the decision to make the latest Orcs Must Die entry a Stadia-exclusive
- 85 Google Play apps with 8 million downloads forced fullscreen ads on users
- Google Play Store’s blindingly white redesign starts rolling out
- Apple delays new rules around data tracking in kids’ games: “We aren’t backing off on this important issue, but we are working to help developers get there”
- Report: Apple Arcade monthly subscription will cost $4.99
- Report: Apple Arcade will cost just $4.99 a month
- UK Charts: Crash Team Racing still No.1 (but it should be Minecraft) – Best-selling sandbox game just about outsold remastered racer, but listings quirk puts it lower in the Top 10
- Mojang ends development on Minecraft’s Super Duper Graphics Pack: Microsoft working with Nvidia to bring ray-tracing to Minecraft on PC
- Nvidia’s gaming business sees growth thanks to graphics demands
- Loot Crate files for bankruptcy, lays off over 50: Employees report no notice or severance despite promises that “operations will continue as usual”
- How Ark: Survival Evolved “fell into sustainable revenue” without skins or loot boxes
- Gears 5 “ahead of the industry” on monetising without loot boxes: Multiplayer design director Ryan Cleven says The Coalition has been working on “player-friendly” purchase systems since Gears of War 4
- Respawn devs roped into Reddit feud with fans over Apex Legends loot box furore: Respawn apologizes for comments made by developers toward players in response to loot box anger
- Respawn at the Apex of community dysfunction | Opinion: Fans and developers say they want an open, transparent relationship with each other, but their actions suggest anything but
- Embrace Fans: How One Mystery Modder Has Kept System Shock 2 Playable
- Section 230 Doesn’t Protect Print-on-Demand Vendor–Atari v. Sunfrog (Eric Goldman)
- Supreme Court Asked to consider section 230
- Herrick v. Grindr: Why Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act Must be Fixed
- Nintendo clamps down on YouTube game music channels: One channel received over 140 copyright claims against their videos
- Nintendo Hates You: Company DMCAs Over 100 Videos Celebrating Nintendo Game Music
- NPD: Nintendo sweeps July, though Madden takes the crown – “Fire Emblem Three Houses” saw the largest launch of a Fire Emblem game in US history
- Turning the Nintendo Switch into Android’s best gaming hardware
- Report: Nintendo continues its 2019 domination in hardware and software
- Guidemaster: The best Nintendo Switch accessories you can buy in 2019
- Microsoft contractors listened to user audio from Xbox consoles: Both deliberate and accidental Cortana, Kinect commands were recorded and heard, most reportedly from children
- Xbox Game Studios-published Ori and the Blind Forestheaded to Switch
- Xbox expands Nintendo Switch support with Ori and the Blind Forest
- Xbox open to some first-party games appearing on other consoles
- Microsoft has “no plans” to release more Xbox exclusives on PS4 or Nintendo Switch: Company says the focus is on its own platforms
- Don’t Miss: A look back at the development of Ori and the Blind Forest
- Don’t Miss: Surrendering control and trusting in players with Her Story
- Mojang partners with Nvidia to bring real-time ray tracing to Minecraft
- Kerbal Space Program 2 will take flight in 2020—here’s the first trailer
- You’re Not Helping: ESPN Delays ‘Apex Legends’ Broadcast After 2 Mass Shootings
- Echo Fox terminates its League of Legends players’ contracts
- Echo Fox lays off League of Legends players as franchise slot sale moves forward: Riot Games taking applications for new partner in league slot following dispute between Echo Fox founder and shareholder
- ELeague to broadcast Nintendo 2019 World Championships on CBS: Three-episode series to air summer competitions in Splatoon 2, Super Mario Maker 2, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Gfinity Esports Australia shutting down this November: Esports tournament organiser ceasing operations after two years
- Rapper Offset Tenders Investment In Leading Esports Collective FaZe Clan
- The onslaught of regulation against games and esports | Opinion: Legal experts at Reed Smith reflect on the scrutiny the industry is under, and how the European Esports Federation might offer hope
- Underneath The International’s $33m prize pool, a flawed system in continuous need of repair
- Making money out of E-Sports Opportunities
- YouTube Millionaires: The Leaderboard Is Building An Inclusive Destination For Gamers Of All Sorts
- Sony open to PC versions of PlayStation exclusives
- Sony-owned studios may lean into a wider, non-PlayStation install base in the future
- Sweating the details of diversity in Marvel’s Spider-Man
- Sony announces it’s buying Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games
- Spider-Man developer Insomniac acquired, joins Sony Worldwide Studios
- Sony acquires Insomniac Games: Insomniac’s Spider-Man, a PS4-exclusive, has now sold over 13m copies
- Sony Acquires Insomniac Games, Delivering a Strategic Blow to Oculus Studios in the Process
- Insomniac Games acquired by Sony, calls out “a special relationship”
- ‘No Man’s Sky’ VR Review – A Wonderful, Deeply Flawed Space Odyssey
- Guidemaster: 2019’s best VR is a battle between Oculus Quest, everyone else
- Phoenix Labs acquires Bot School Inc: Dauntless developer invests further in cross-platform efforts
- Phoenix Labs acquires Bot School Inc to further Dauntlesscross-play efforts
- Epic apologises following release of re-skinned cosmetic item: Players refunded after complaints that new battle pet is nearly indistinguishable from previously released one
- Epic Games opens new Cologne studio with Factor 5 founders
- Epic Games rolls out new store features as Cologne studio opens doors
- Epic Games and Factor 5 founders opens new studio in Cologne: Unreal firm’s third German branch will focus on interactive media and streaming technology
- Despite complaints, Epic stands behind Fortnite’s “anyone can win” mechs
- Epic Games Store rolls out more cloud save support, flashier store pages
- Unfold Games, studio behind DARQ, turns down Epic Games Store exclusivity deal
- DARQ dev highlights “double standard” of Epic Game Store: Unfold Games explains decision to turn down exclusivity deal
- Why one PC developer turned down the security of Epic’s exclusivity offer
- ReadySet Heroes is the first Sony-published game to debut on Epic’s Games Store
- Cracks Showing In Epic Store’s PR War As Developers Have To Plead With Public To Not Harass Them
- Sony publishes ReadySet Heroes on Epic Games Store: Robot Entertainment’s action-adventure title is the first Sony-published title on the storefront
- Steam’s ‘Follower’ counts: A discoverability gem hidden in plain sight
- Steam is heading to China as a separate marketplace
- Government regulation means Steam China will be a curated platform
- My.Games is launching its own PC video game storefront
- Klang Games raises over $22m in Series B funding for persistent MMO Seed
- Starbreeze posts $6.6 million loss amid ongoing reconstruction
- Starbreeze attempts to stop Q2 FY19 bleeding with one-time revenue injections
- Ubisoft on politics in games: “We know we’re not taking it far enough” – Editorial VP Tommy François says he wants future games to better represent multiple viewpoints on the world
- Stop asking “is it political?” It always is | Opinion: Asking developers if their games are “political” has become an exercise in avoiding outrage; there are better ways to explore this complex, important question
- Bungie says current Destiny 2 development is “unsustainable”
- Activision Blizzard appoints its first-ever corporate-wide CMO
- GOG has fulfilled two million Community Wishlist requests: Digital distributor celebrates milestone, ten years after launching programme
- Fire Emblem Three Houses sold an estimated 800k digital units in July – SuperData: GTA Online Diamond Casino update brings in $69m across console and PC, PUBG sells another 1m units on PC
- Microsoft has no plans to bring Xbox first-party exclusives to other consoles
- Report: Microsoft used human contractors to listen in on Xbox-recorded audio
- PUBG is rolling out console crossplay to Xbox One and PS4 this year
- DuckTales makes a staggering last-minute comeback in EMEAA charts: Disney platformer rockets to No.3 before being delisted from stores
- Report: Mortal Kombat 11 leads the way in second-quarter video game engagement
- Ubisoft rebrands its German studios: Blue Byte studios to become Ubisoft Düsseldorf and Ubisoft Mainz
- Lockwood Publishing closes funding round led by Novator, CCP Games CEO: Unity Technologies founder David Helgasson also participates, appointed chairman of the board
- Unity launches two new classroom tools to help teach programming
- THQ Nordic AB board proposes name change to Embracer Group: Proposal would separate holding company’s nomenclature from that of subsidiary publisher
- My.Games to launch new PC gaming storefront: Mail.ru gaming division to distribute free-to-play and premium PC titles and other services starting late this year
- What we can learn from… Warframe: From a slow start, Digital Extremes built a service game to rival Destiny, defying every convention along the way
- U.S. retailers and consumers get stay of execution on Trump’s China tariffs
- Metaari: US surpasses China as top-buying country for game-based learning – Industry revenue is expected to rise to over $24 billion by 2024
- Valve to keep original Steam up in China: Company plans to have its global storefront freely available in the country even after the launch of the official Steam China storefront
- Superhot Team aims to support ‘weird but smart’ devs with new indie fund
- Superhot launches indie development fund: Director of special projects Callum Underwood details how the studio is giving back to the indie community with Superhot Presents
- Wikia’s Fandom is getting into the game publishing business
- Pre-tax earnings more than double at Stillfront Group in Q2: Group posts $49.9 million revenue and $15.9 million earnings
- Bloodborne and Mass Effect 3 composer forms new audio production company
- Bloodborne composer co-founds new audio production company: The Audio Hive roster includes veterans from The Witcher 3, God of War, and Red Dead Redemption II
- Halo Infinite and Halo 5: Guardians creative director has left 343 Industries
- Defining ‘hyper-casual’ as a genre and exploring its long-term viability
- Blog: Creating a questlog people actually read in Pathologic 2
- Blog: How I translated Ancient Greek punishment games into Bitsy
- Blog: Implementing data structures – Part 2
- Don’t Miss: A deep dive into the ‘old school’ save system ofAlien: Isolation
- Video: Inside the flexible music system of Plants vs. Zombies Heroes
- Don’t Miss: Designing Spider-Man 2’s classic web-swinging mechanic
- Designing communities for kindness
- Video: Designing multiplayer ranking systems like Elo and TrueSkill
- Video: Great game audio choreography for battle design
- Video: Designing for color blindness in games
- Video: Think you’re ready to pitch a publisher? You’re not, and here’s why
- Borderlands 3’s secret weapon is in the writers’ room: At Devcom, Gearbox Software’s Randy Varnell detailed the creation of a “narrative department” to meet the challenge of Borderlands 3
- Remastering Yakuza for the modern world: Series producer Daisuke Sato discusses how and why the newly announced remasters have been changed in various ways
- How positive relationships and slow, steady progress keep Raconteur Games smiling
- Engaging level design for combat
- Growing into Growtopia: Ubisoft Abu Dhabi head Yannick Theler talks about building a new studio in a non-traditional development scene
- From concept to doubt to reevaluation: Designing Creature in the Well
- GameStop lays off 120+ people, including some Game Informer staff
- GameStop lays off 120 corporate staffers as stock continues to tumble
- GameStop suffers another round of layoffs, Game Informer editors affected
- Game Informer lays off ‘many’ staff: Now-former employees break the news about cuts at GameStop-owned magazine
- What will be the biggest video games of Christmas 2019?: In the absence of Battlefield and Assassin’s Creed, there’s a big opportunity for alternative franchises to break through this Q4
- Sony, Ubisoft receive multiple honors in Gamescom Awards 2019
- U.S. Patent No. 7,717,789: Game program, game device, and game method
- Guidemaster: Navigating the hazy world of gaming laptops in 2019
- Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot
- Ars Technica’s favorite video games from our first 10 years, 1998-2008
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