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Keywords acquires social media agency DMM News Mar 30th, 2023

Keywords acquires social media agency DMM

The games giant has splashed out $67.5 million

Discord introducing deeper user verification tools News Dec 13th, 2022

Discord introducing deeper user verification tools

Builds on the previously-existing Connections service

Ubisoft rolls out new gTV "content channel" in the UK News Apr 16th, 2021

Ubisoft rolls out new gTV "content channel" in the UK

Line-up so far includes talk show from Black Girl Gamers CEO and founder Jay-Ann Lopez

Tweets about games up 75% in 2020 News Jan 12th, 2021

Tweets about games up 75% in 2020

Animal Crossing was the most-discussed title on the platform

Former Counter-Strike pro receives 116 year prison sentence for fraud News Mar 5th, 2020

Former Counter-Strike pro receives 116 year prison sentence for fraud

She's appealed the decision

Untitled Goose Game developer says it doesn't really think about social media News Oct 9th, 2019

Untitled Goose Game developer says it doesn't really think about social media

Programmer Nico Disseldorp says the team was surprised by the massive reaction the game's first trailer received

Game Workers Unite calls for Activision Blizzard CEO Kotick’s removal after mass redundancies News Feb 14th, 2019

Game Workers Unite calls for Activision Blizzard CEO Kotick’s removal after mass redundancies

"We, the workers of Activision and their friends, have had enough."

Facebook was misleading users about in-app billing, practice dubbed "friendly fraud" News Jan 28th, 2019

Facebook was misleading users about in-app billing, practice dubbed "friendly fraud"

Famously sketchy social media giant caught being sketchy, again

GOG community manager's tell-all interview asks more questions than it answers News Dec 6th, 2018

GOG community manager's tell-all interview asks more questions than it answers

Sean Halliday was made redundant following controversial company social media posts

GOG.com tweet hijacks transgender awareness hashtag and is promptly removed News Oct 24th, 2018

GOG.com tweet hijacks transgender awareness hashtag and is promptly removed

A later post addressed the misstep but fails to properly apologise for doing so

In the age of games-as-a-service, talking to Twitch and Facebook is the "most important" thing, says Jagex News Oct 5th, 2018

In the age of games-as-a-service, talking to Twitch and Facebook is the "most important" thing, says Jagex

Conversations with platform holders still important, but not as much as they were five years ago, CEO Phil Mansell says

Raytracing, machine learning and social - The future of PC games according to Nvidia Feature Aug 20th, 2018

Raytracing, machine learning and social - The future of PC games according to Nvidia

The green GPU giant's team tells us about all the new tech it is cooking up

Updated: GOG.com apologises for accidental GamerGate tweet News Jul 19th, 2018

Updated: GOG.com apologises for accidental GamerGate tweet

Now deleted message seen as a dog whistle to the harassment movement

IGDA director tasks studios with setting up social media guidelines News Jul 10th, 2018

IGDA director tasks studios with setting up social media guidelines

Jen MacLean hopes other developers can avoid getting themselves into the same mess as ArenaNet

Facebook courts developers with wealth of streaming and social-focused API changes News Mar 19th, 2018

Facebook courts developers with wealth of streaming and social-focused API changes

Social media giant claims it's easier than ever to stream games via its platform while adding in analytics tools for game devs

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