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Mojang is letting moderators issue bans in Minecraft News Nov 23rd, 2020

Mojang is letting moderators issue bans in Minecraft

Firm wants to "provide a positive and enjoyable environment" in its games

Valve lays out plans to tackle Dota 2 toxicity News Oct 20th, 2020

Valve lays out plans to tackle Dota 2 toxicity

Company plans to use a similar player-managed system to what it introduced in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Valve rolls out new Steam Chat filters News Oct 8th, 2020

Valve rolls out new Steam Chat filters

Lets users customise language that is censored

Activision has booted another 20k cheaters from COD Warzone News Sep 30th, 2020

Activision has booted another 20k cheaters from COD Warzone

Firm bans players using popular hack called EngineOwning

Fortnite firm Epic buys "kidtech" company SuperAwesome News Sep 28th, 2020

Fortnite firm Epic buys "kidtech" company SuperAwesome

Boss Sweeney says it wants to make online experiences safer for children

1 Discord banned over 4m accounts in the first half of 2020 News Aug 28th, 2020

Discord banned over 4m accounts in the first half of 2020

Mostly for spamming

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

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