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Mark Zuckerberg once again defends Internet.org from critics in India
The idea of providing free basic internet access to everyone sounds like an easy sell on paper, but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has faced increasing criticism for his Internet.org initiative, whose mission is to provide internet connectivity to developing countries like Colombia, Kenya, and others. Internet.org has faced especially harsh criticisms in India, where propenents ...
Steam user confidence shaken by holiday security glitch
It is bad enough when Steam undergoes its usual holiday service hiccups (either due to high traffic or intentional DDOS attacks), but users were treated to an even more upsetting situation over the holiday weekend when a system error allowed a number of users to view personal information belonging to other accounts. Steam owner Valve Corp acknowledged the issue with ...
Turns out some of the Steam Winter Sale prices are temporary after all
Valve Corp. announced earlier this year that it would be changing up the way it handles some of its big seasonal sales by ending all temporary discounts. This included Daily Deals, which changed every day, as well as Flash Sales and Community Choice deals, both of which lasted for eight hours before being replaced by ...
Drugs, extortion and video games: Esports controversies of 2015
As more and more money becomes tied up in the growing esports industry, scandals are only going to become more commonplace. This year alone there have numerous examples of cheating and match fixing, but there were a handful of scandals that not only caught the attention of the esports community but may also shape the direction of the ...
“Gnarly” Rock Band 4 bugs result in complete reset of the leaderboards
Rock Band 4 developer Harmonix Music Systems Corp had to make a tough decision this week as it worked to resolve a serious exploit within the game. Some players discovered a game bug that they could exploit to inflate their song scores. As a result, Harmonix has decided to completely reset the game’s leaderboards, since a number of the ...
Sleeping Dogs spin-off Triad Wars has been cancelled while still in beta
Fans of Hong Kong crime game Sleeping Dogs were skeptical when the studio announced an online-only multiplayer spin-off called Triad Wars, and now it looks like that skepticism may have been warranted, as developer United Front Games has announced the cancellation of the project before it has even completed beta testing. In a post on the official ...
‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’ director looks back on the iconic game in ‘Devs Play’ video
Sometime in the 2000s, French-Canadian game studio Ubisoft Montreal released an iconic action adventure game set in the distant past that starred a Middle Eastern protagonist and had a story that included elements of time travel and mysticism. Directed by Patrice Désilets, the game featured fun, fluid gameplay with parkour-like wall climbing puzzles and intense melee combat. ...
Uncharted 4 delayed until April 26 to give the devs “a bit more time to finish the game”
Santa Monica-based game studio Naughty Dog Inc announced today that it has decided to postpone the release of the highly anticipated next entry in the Uncharted series, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. “Let’s start with the good news: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is wrapping up production and is shaping up to be the proper send off ...
WWI shooter ‘Verdun’ recreates the famous Christmas Truce in-game
The developers behind World War I shooter Verdun have announced that beginning this week, it will be recreating the famous Christmas Truce of 1914 in-game, allowing players to temporarily put aside their weapons for a brief moment of peace, much as some of the combatants in WWI did over 100 years ago. “From December 22 – January ...
Paragon dev on bringing the “DNA of being action game developers” to a MOBA game
With its rights to the Gears of War franchise sold to Microsoft, Epic Games Inc is probably best known today for its popular game engine, Unreal Engine 4, which has been used in dozens of triple-a games and probably hundreds of indie games. While Epic could perhaps easily rest on the laurels of Unreal Engine, the studio ...
