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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

Good!

New Year New Job - Square Enix Collective's Amy Graves takes us behind the scenes of community management Job News Jan 3rd, 2018

New Year New Job - Square Enix Collective's Amy Graves takes us behind the scenes of community management

"It’s all about engaging with gamers online and working with the communities surrounding Collective and our range of games"

Rainbow Six Siege finally gets an option to report toxicity News Nov 24th, 2017

Rainbow Six Siege finally gets an option to report toxicity

Community developer advises users read up on the tactical shooter's code of conduct

“Talking to players as a developer is scary and intimidating,” says ex-Riot employee News Oct 10th, 2017

“Talking to players as a developer is scary and intimidating,” says ex-Riot employee

Aaron Rutledge opens up about the realities of dealing with a toxic community

Blizzard's Kaplan says more than 480,000 Overwatch accounts have faced disciplinary action News Sep 14th, 2017

Blizzard's Kaplan says more than 480,000 Overwatch accounts have faced disciplinary action

Developer highlights how much time it is wasting by having to manage an increasingly toxic community

Blizzard’s Kaplan outlines future of Overwatch ban system News Aug 30th, 2017

Blizzard’s Kaplan outlines future of Overwatch ban system

"Like it or not, this is an "us, the OW community problem" and not just an "OW team problem". For better or for worse, we're in this together."

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