Category: Industry News – Page 76
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Tim Pool Retains Lawyer For Legal Battle Against Studio FOW Over Subverse Porn Game
[Update 4/14/2019:] Tim Pool reached out to explain that there's no lawsuit yet, he's only retained a lawyer. He also stated that the trademark filing has nothi
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Ubisoft Support Says 3rd-Parties Access Uplay Accounts; Ubisoft PR Denies 3rd Parties Access Account Data
One April 12th, 2019 a Reddit user going by the handle of intruder_alert made a post on the /r/PCGaming/ thread to chronicle an encounter with a Ubisoft custome
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Google Bans Dissenter From Chrome Web Store For “Hate Speech”
Mere hours after Mozilla banned the Dissenter extension from the Firefox add-ons library, Google sent a notice to the owners of GAB.com to inform them that Diss
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PUBG Banned In Nepal By Telecommunications Authority For Being Too Addictive
Addictive video games of a violent nature are now on the censorship chopping block. Bluehole Studios (and the subsidiary PUBG Corporation) had their bread and b
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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Sells 2 Million Copies After Launch Week
Despite journalists saying that Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is too hard and that it needs to be easier Activision and FromSoftware have shown otherwise with Sekir
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Amagami Dating Sim Localization Will Be 1000% Gayer To Combat Right-Wingers, Says Localizer [Update]
[Update:] Some other localizers are saying that Thomas James has been joking about localizing Amagami within his circle of friends, and that he's not actually w
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Dissenter Extension Removed From Firefox Add-Ons Gallery For “Abuse”
Mozilla informed Gab.com – the creators of the comment extension, Dissenter – that the browser extensions has been removed from the Firefox add-ons gallery
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Leaked Memo Alleges Google Shadow Bans “Problematic” Websites, Google Says It’s Not True
Google’s Trust & Safety Team allegedly were in charge of monitoring a blacklist of “problematic” websites. The memo was leaked to The Daily Caller, who publishe
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EVE Online CSM’s Brisc Rubal Says He Will Seek Recourse Against Allegations Regarding Perma-Ban
[Update: 4/18/2019] CCP has issued a follow-up statement clarifying that they will be performing a thorough investigation and that if any wrongful bans have bee
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Kotaku And Other Gizmodo Brands Sold To Great Hill Partners To Become G/O Media
Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm, has acquired Kotaku et al for an undisclosed amount of money. According to Variety they paid significantly less than
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FTC Planning Workshop To Discuss Loot Boxes August 7th
The Federal Trade Commission is finally making good on its promise to dive into the use of loot boxes in video games, with a workshop specifically established t
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UK Regulator Aims To Enforce Censorship On Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Forums, Search Engines
A new white paper from U.K. Home Office and Department of Culture, Media, and Sport aims to setup a regulation body that enforces and fines social media and sea
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Steam Attempts To Stifle Borderlands Review Bombing In Wake of Epic Games Store Exclusivity Deal
It seems bizarre that Valve would help Epic Games by stifling the anger of the community from using the only tool they have at their disposal to make the messag
