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Respawn says harassment of dev team will not be tolerated News Sep 23rd, 2022

Respawn says harassment of dev team will not be tolerated

"We will take appropriate action to ensure the health and safety of our team"

Bungie has reduced communication with players over harassment News Jul 29th, 2022

Bungie has reduced communication with players over harassment

"The harassment we've spoken to isn't just rude replies on Twitter or vague comments"

EA: Games industry has a lot of catching up on managing communities News Aug 27th, 2021

EA: Games industry has a lot of catching up on managing communities

EVP of Positive Play, marketing and commercial Chris Bruzzo says sector is only really waking up to its responsibilities

Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo outline commitment to making games safer News Dec 15th, 2020

Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo outline commitment to making games safer

"Protecting players can be challenging in a digitally and often instantaneously connected world"

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

Id to drop Denuvo Anti-Cheat from Doom Eternal after backlash News May 21st, 2020

Id to drop Denuvo Anti-Cheat from Doom Eternal after backlash

Tech to be taken out "within a week"

Valorant developers will not accept bullying and harassment News May 7th, 2020

Valorant developers will not accept bullying and harassment

"Harassment and bullying in games is not a status quo I'm comfortable accepting"

Report: 33% of UK gamers say community has been more positive during lockdown News May 6th, 2020

Report: 33% of UK gamers say community has been more positive during lockdown

Research from Russian publisher My.Games looked into player behaviour in the US and Europe

Manticore wants to lower barrier to making and launching multiplayer games with new Core platform News Mar 18th, 2020

Manticore wants to lower barrier to making and launching multiplayer games with new Core platform

"Our goal is to make it so you wouldn't want to [sell a game on Steam]."

Report: 79% of League of Legends players have faced harassment News Feb 18th, 2020

Report: 79% of League of Legends players have faced harassment

And almost all have been insulted in a game

Large portion of No Man's Sky critics hadn't played the game, Hello's Murray says News Jul 9th, 2019

Large portion of No Man's Sky critics hadn't played the game, Hello's Murray says

Studio founder says there was a lot of useful feedback once it filtered out this noise

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."

Microsoft outlines distinction between trash talk and harassment in Community Standards update News May 3rd, 2019

Microsoft outlines distinction between trash talk and harassment in Community Standards update

"We get it – gaming can be competitive and interactions with other players can get heated"

Ubisoft is rewarding Rainbow Six Siege “Bug Hunters” with cosmetics News Apr 26th, 2019

Ubisoft is rewarding Rainbow Six Siege “Bug Hunters” with cosmetics

Publisher continues crowd-sourced QA efforts with bug report bounty hunts

GDC 2019 - Counter-Strike's creator says not standing up to players over game changes has led to lack of series innovation News Mar 20th, 2019

GDC 2019 - Counter-Strike's creator says not standing up to players over game changes has led to lack of series innovation

"We were afraid of doing anything different. We were afraid of annoying the player base"

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