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EA outlines new community guidelines News Jun 18th, 2020

EA outlines new community guidelines

Positive Play Charter lays out clear rules for using the company's services and the penalties for breaking them

EA Sports says it won't "tolerate racism of any kind" News Jun 8th, 2020

EA Sports says it won't "tolerate racism of any kind"

Firm outlines measures it is taking to cut out hate speech

Esports firm FaceIt's community management AI has already banned 20k users News Oct 29th, 2019

Esports firm FaceIt's community management AI has already banned 20k users

It has issued 20,000 bans already

TinyBuild boss Nichiporchik says delayed GOG updates aren't due to piracy concerns News Jul 8th, 2019

TinyBuild boss Nichiporchik says delayed GOG updates aren't due to piracy concerns

"I personally grew up in the pre-DRM era, and love having all my games and OSTs available anywhere, not requiring an online connection or a launcher"

RuneScape maker Jagex banned 587 player accounts during 2018 News Jul 3rd, 2019

RuneScape maker Jagex banned 587 player accounts during 2018

"While we welcome hundreds of thousands into the games on a daily basis, we only issued permanent bans against 587 accounts for persistent abusive behaviour."

How Spirit is using AI to change the games industry forever Interviews & Opinion Nov 9th, 2018

How Spirit is using AI to change the games industry forever

CCO Dr Mitu Khandaker and biz dev lead Peter Alau tell us more

More than 200m hours of No Man's Sky have been played in the last two years News Jul 25th, 2018

More than 200m hours of No Man's Sky have been played in the last two years

Studio founder Sean Murray vows to be more open with the community moving forward

Blizzard claims Overwatch’s latest social systems are already improving in-game behaviour News Jul 16th, 2018

Blizzard claims Overwatch’s latest social systems are already improving in-game behaviour

Amount of players being abusive has decreased in American and Korean regions, but data is missing for Europe

Former white supremacist confirms hate groups are using Fortnite and Minecraft to recruit News Jul 3rd, 2018

Former white supremacist confirms hate groups are using Fortnite and Minecraft to recruit

Peace advocate’s reddit AMA confirmed online games are prime recruitment grounds for white power groups

Spirit is using AI to curb toxic behaviour in game communities News Jun 18th, 2018

Spirit is using AI to curb toxic behaviour in game communities

Creative partnership director Mitu Khandaker speaks on using AI to steer online communities

Overwatch adding endorsement tools to incentivise good behaviour News Jun 6th, 2018

Overwatch adding endorsement tools to incentivise good behaviour

Improvements also include a “looking for group” system and other quality of life changes

Tencent fighting cheating and rewarding good behaviour with social score system News Apr 11th, 2018

Tencent fighting cheating and rewarding good behaviour with social score system

Game Credit currently only available to Chinese users

Inside Track - Introducing Sega and nDreams vet Dan Sheridan's new venture SheriMedia Profile Mar 5th, 2018

Inside Track - Introducing Sega and nDreams vet Dan Sheridan's new venture SheriMedia

"I founded SheriMedia to provide the industry with an agency-like service for community management, social media and influencer marketing"

Ubisoft beefs up Rainbow Six: Siege ban system to fight homophobes and racists News Mar 5th, 2018

Ubisoft beefs up Rainbow Six: Siege ban system to fight homophobes and racists

“Any language or content deemed illegal, dangerous, threatening, abusive, obscene, vulgar, defamatory, hateful, racist, sexist, ethically offensive or constituting harassment is forbidden.”

Discord gives alt-right servers the boot News Mar 1st, 2018

Discord gives alt-right servers the boot

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