Internal documents show a struggle with misinformation, hate speech and celebrations of violence in the country, the company’s biggest market. On Feb. 4, 2019, a Facebook researcher created a new user account to see what it was like to experience the social media site as a person living in Kerala, India. For the next three […]
Representation matters. And for Codename Entertainment, this is more than just a pithy statement. Last month, it introduced Talin Uran to Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms, its Dungeons & Dragons-based clicker game. Uran is a tiefling rogue from Waterdeep, and he mans a combat wheelchair for his adventures along the Sword Coast. The combat […]
Life during the coronavirus can certainly be stressful. Many of us are still stuck at home, separated from familiar social routines. Some are returning to workplaces in states where case counts are rapidly rising. The anxieties can seem endless, but several companies are stepping up to the plate to take on our woes — creating […]
During the PC Gaming Show today, Amazon Games announced that its New World massively multiplayer online game will be available as a closed beta July 23. The company also revealed new details about the combat system for the colonial era online game. The game has been in development for years, and it represents a big […]
Wikipedia is to institute a new code of conduct to battle what the firm called “toxic behaviour” by some volunteers. The Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation that runs the site, voted on new measures that will be finalised by the end of the year. Wikipedia is written and updated by volunteers. Many, particularly women and members […]
Google is presenting the data as aggregated statistics, and it isn’t publishing the real-time movements of individual users or the places they have visited, Jen Fitzpatrick, a senior vice president, and Karen DeSalvo, Google’s chief health officer, said in a blog post. The technology powering this service is typically used to help people figure out […]
Final Fantasy VII Remake is one of the headline games for Square Enix at the moment, and it feels like it has been in development forever. Finally set to release next year on March 3rd, we had the opportunity to play a hands-on demo during PAX West 2019 and dive into the real-time combat in this episodic […]
How do you solve a problem like deepfake? It’s a question that everyone from tech companies to politicians are having to ask with the advent of new, increasingly accessible tools that allow for the creation of A.I. manipulated videos in which people’s likenesses are reappropriated in once unimaginable ways. Such videos are sometimes created for […]
One of the big reveals at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles, was the unveiling of gameplay for Square Enix’s The Avengers game. The timing for this game (coming soon) is good because the film Avengers: Endgame has made about $ 2.7 billion at the box office so […]
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[embedded content] The U.S. Air Force last week completed the first test flight of its new stealth fighter drone, the XQ-58A Valkyrie. The Valkyrie lifted off at Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona on March 5 and was in the air for 76 minutes. Though the Air Force is often secretive about its emerging technology, it […]
Gaming “addicts” have been talking to MPs about the dangers of spending too much time online. One told them that parents should set a three-hour-a-day limit on their children’s gaming. It is part of an inquiry into technology addiction, being held by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. At an earlier hearing, representatives […]
Echo Combat debuts on Thursday as the latest zero-gravity robot-fighting virtual reality game from Ready At Dawn Studios. The Oculus Rift with Touch title is based on the gameplay of the Irvine, California-based studio’s previous Lone Echo and Echo Arena VR games, and this one has a fresh take on competitive gaming. While you throw […]
Tech companies like Apple and Google are working on ways to help us average consumers better manage the time we spend on our digital devices. Apple recently launched the Screen Time tool for the iPhone — and Google released Digital Wellbeing, a similar tool for Android devices and other Google products. These products, however, seem […]