MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Hail Mary Pass to Supreme Court Missed Its Mark: Application to Stay CRTC Order Prohibiting Simultaneous Substitution during the Super Bowl Dismissed
- Broadcasting Procedural Letter Addressed to Netflix (CRTC)
- No Panic: Canadian TV and Film Production Posts Biggest Year Ever Raising Doubts About the Need for Site Blocking and Netflix Regulation (Michael Geist)
- Anti-piracy group under fire for website-blocking proposal
- Does Canada Even Have a Huge Piracy Problem?: A coalition of powerful organizations wants to block piracy websites in Canada.
- Thousands Slam Bell Coalition’s Website Blocking Proposal in Submissions to the CRTC (Michael Geist)
- Canada’s SOPA Moment: Why the CRTC Should Reject the Bell Coalition’s Dangerous Internet Blocking Plan (Michael Geist)
- Russia Blocks 500 ‘Pirate’ Sites in Four Months, Without a Single Court Order
- Bell offers free phone unlocking for all following protests: Telecom had declined requests from non-customers but has changed its policy
- How Bell Let’s Talk became a triple win for BCE, consumers and the mental health cause: In an era of donor fatigue and one-hit wonder online campaigns, BCE’s annual corporate social responsibility effort continues to succeed despite criticism from skeptic
- Here’s Ajit Pai’s “proof” that killing net neutrality created more broadband: Pai’s FCC takes credit for broadband deployments that began under Obama.
- There are Ajit Pai “Verizon puppet” jokes that the FCC doesn’t want you to read: FCC won’t release emails about joke “collusion” video, says they would harm agency.
- Trump’s FCC Pats Itself On The Back For A Historically Stupid Year
- FCC Report Falsely Claims Killing Net Neutrality Already Helping Broadband Competition
- ISPs must follow net neutrality in New Jersey, governor declares: ISPs can’t block or throttle traffic if they sell broadband to state agencies.
- California’s Net Neutrality Law Takes Another Step Forward
- New Jersey The Latest State To Protect Net Neutrality By Executive Order
- San Francisco seeks universal fiber broadband with net neutrality and privacy: Affordable broadband and consumer protections for all—that’s the plan at least.
- FCC Reaches Consent Decree with Noncommercial Broadcaster Imposing Largest Fine Ever Issued for Underwriting Violations – $115,000
- FTC issues comments on FCC’s robocall blocking rules
- Trump Administration Proposes Construction of Federal 5G Wireless Network
- A New Frequency Range Could Open Up More Wireless Tech
- Comcast accused of demanding $3.5 million “punitive ransom” from rival: Wave Broadband says it had to pay big bucks to avoid losing sports networks.
DIGITAL
- As Outlets Like Russia Today Influence Viewers, YouTube Will Add Notices To State-Sponsored Content
- YouTube will put disclaimers on state-funded broadcasts to fight propaganda: In efforts to educate viewers on where their news comes from.
- Appeals court: Twitter can’t be sued for “material support” of terrorism – 9th Circuit – “We conclude that Twitter has the better of the argument.”
- Court Dismisses — For A Second Time — Lawsuit Seeking To Hold Facebook Responsible For Acts Of Terrorism
- How Twitter Bots and Trump Fans Made #ReleaseTheMemo Go Viral: Russian bots and their American allies gamed social media to put a flawed intelligence document atop the political agenda. That should alarm us.
- ‘Fiction is outperforming reality’: how YouTube’s algorithm distorts truth – An ex-YouTube insider reveals how its recommendation algorithm promotes divisive clips and conspiracy videos. Did they harm Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency?
- Ich Bin Ein Tweeter: I had enough of the trolling and toxic taunts on Twitter. So I reset my location and “moved” to Germany, the safest social media state in the world.
- Learning The Politics Of “Digital Dissensus”
- Policing the internet – “fake news” and social media offence update
- China launches salvo against “network navy” of trolls who spread fake news: More than 200 arrests, thousands of accounts and websites seized for “illegal speculation.”
- Small Creator Sues YouTube Over Faulty DMCA Takedown Procedure
- Socioeconomic group classification based on user features / Facebook, Inc.
- Facebook Patents Tech To Bucket Users Into Different Social Classes
- Telegram iOS app removed from App Store last week due to child pornography: The app was restored only after Telegram removed the content.
- Theresa May Again Demands Tech Companies Do More To Right The World’s Social Media Wrongs
- It’s Time For A Serious Talk About The Science Of Tech “Addiction”
- Push Resumes For An EU Google Tax, With The Bulgarian Government Leading The Way
- Nest is done as a standalone Alphabet company, merges with Google: Google plans to “combine hardware, software, and services” between the two companies
- Live Stream Of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Rocket Test Peaks At 2.3 Million Concurrent Views
- Americans staying home, streaming video, and using less energy because of it – Decouple economic growth from energy consumption: Tell your boss you want to work from home.
- Kian Lawley Out At Fox Film ‘The Hate U Give’ After Clip With Racist Remarks Surfaces
- On The Internet, Everyone Is A Creator
- Logan Paul Discusses “The Hardest Time Of My Life” In ‘Good Morning America’ Interview
- Logan Paul Returns to YouTube With ‘Comeback’ Video: ‘I Will Never Forget Who I Am at My Core’
- Logan Paul Is Back To Old Antics In First Comeback Vlog After Suicide Scandal
- Data-Saving YouTube Go App Arrives In 130 More Countries (But Not The US)
- YouTube “tightening and enforcing” policies toward content creators: “We realise we have a serious social responsibility to get these emerging policy issues right,” says CEO
- YouTube Announces 3 Potential Punishments For Top Creators Who Harm The Broader Community
- YouTube CEO Shares 5 Goals With Creators For 2018: “Addressing Your Concerns About Demonetization Is A Top Priority”
- Kylie Jenner Chooses YouTube For Baby Reveal, Nabs 28 Million Views In 24 Hours
- YouTube On ‘Play Button’ Awards: “Not All Creators Who Apply Will Receive Awards”
- YouTube TV subscribers can now watch live TV on Apple TV, Roku devices: Announcement comes after the rollout was delayed at the end of 2017.
- As The Winter Olympics Approach, YouTube Shares Data And Prepares To Host Highlights
- YouTube Uses Its Version Of Snapchat’s Stories For Black History Month Campaign
- Snapchat Uses Live Streaming To Highlight Top Moments From 2018 Winter Olympics
- Patreon Introduces Exclusive Snapchat-Like Content For Donors, By Creators
- How Snapchat Is Sending #Metoo Down The Memory Hole: Disappearing-messaging apps may keep snoopers away—but they can also prevent us from preserving the past and finding justice in the future.
- BuzzFeed And NBCUniversal’s Latest Project Targets Millennial Parents
- Putting Pinners First: How Pinterest Is Building Partnerships For Compassionate Content Moderation
- Implementing Transparency About Content Moderation
- Tosca Musk Launches Streaming Service That Celebrates The Female Gaze
- Hulu’s Super Bowl stream fails during final moments of game: Some customers lost video right before the end
- Hulu and Vue fumbled during the Super Bowl (but so did NBC): Two of the big streaming TV services cut out at critical moments in the game.
- Warner Music Hits $1 Billion in First Quarter, Digital Revenue Up 20%
- Study Suggests Shutting Down Filesharing Sites Would Hurt Music Industry, New Artists
- Appeals Court Makes A Mess Of Copyright Law Concerning ISPs And Safe Harbors
- BMG V. Cox is Major Copyright Victory for Music Industry
- Cox Not Entitled to DMCA Protection Given Lax Infringer Policy
- Fourth Circuit Raises Bar for DMCA Safe Harbor Defense
- The Gig Economy’s Tipping Point
- Alexa, print money: Even Bezos stunned by Q4 Amazon income – Exceeds operating income estimate by 69%; hints at exactly how well Echo is doing.
- Inside Amazon’s Artificial Intelligence Flywheel: How deep learning came to power Alexa, Amazon Web Services, and nearly every other division of the company.
- What Amazon Does to Poor Cities: The debate over Amazon’s HQ2 obscures the company’s rapid expansion of warehouses in low-income areas.
- Don’t Make AI Artificially Stupid In The Name Of Transparency
- AI Just Learned How To Boost The Brain’s Memory
- Half of Americans Want Universal Income, but Expect AI Companies to Pay It
- Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, And Shallow: The Downsides To Deep Learning – We’ve been promised a revolution in how and why nearly everything happens. But the limits of modern artificial intelligence are closer than we think.
- Photo Algorithms ID White Men Fine—Black Women, Not So Much
- Line-Drawing Exercises: Autonomy and Automation – An existential worry lies beneath concerns about the future of AI. We as humans fear that we will lose our autonomy as we pursue automation with such abandon. (John Palfrey)
- The Expansion Of Algorithmic Governance: From Code is Law to Law is Code (Samer Hassan & Primavera De Filippi)
- Irony Alert? Tech Insiders Form Organization to Combat the Dangers of Technology
- The End Of Data Without Borders: The storage and transmission of data around the world involves a constant clash of competing local, regional, and national regulations. But why does anyone care where data is physically located?
- Our Hackable Political Future
- The Big ICO Swindle: Many cryptocurrency speculators are banking on the theory that someone dumber than them will buy their tokens for more than they paid. That’s a pretty good bet … until it isn’t.
- A Classic Scam Finds New Life Stealing Bitcoin On Twitter
- Decrypting Taxation of Cryptocurrency
- Why experts are worried about Tether, a dollar-pegged cryptocurrency: Markets treat a tether as though it’s worth $1. But what if it’s not?
- Cryptocurrency botnets are rendering some companies unable to operate: Smominru botnet has infected 526,000 machines, generated as much as $3.6 million.
- Crypto Utopia In Puerto Rico: Digital Evangelism Or Disaster Capitalism? (Andres Guadamuz)
- A Video Platform That Wants To Be YouTube For Cryptocurrency Users Has Raised $20 Million
- Cryptocurrency in Small Bytes: Who’s in Charge Here Anyway? The U.S. Regulatory Landscape for Token Offerings
- The Wired Guide To The Blockchain: It’s super secure and slightly hard to understand, but the idea of creating tamper-proof databases has captured the attention of everyone from anarchist techies to staid bankers.
- Feds Take Down A Half-Billion Dollar Cybercrime Forum After 7 Years Online
- No “Bright Line” In Influencer Marketing No-Nos, Tubefilter And SAG-AFTRA FTC Panel Shows
- ‘Catalog Of Missing Devices’ Compiles The Useful Tech Products DRM Is Preventing Us From Owning
- Viacom Will Reportedly Acquire Online Video Gathering VidCon
- It’s Official: Viacom Announces Its Acquisition Of VidCon
- Mitú, NFL Announce Partnership To Engage Latino Football Fans
- This Pastor Is Putting His Faith In A Virtual Reality Church: D.J. Soto believes Christianity can be renewed through worship in virtual space. His VR mega-church is even attracting atheists.
- Uber doesn’t want jury to see report, but judge says Uber is “stuck” with it: Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick may take the stand today.
- Waymo presents damning internal messages from Uber, which responds in kind
- Kalanick agrees: Google was and is “in the lead” in autonomous vehicles – According to a colleague’s notes, Uber’s co-founder sought “pound of flesh.”
- Uber: We had “no justification” for covering up data breach – Republican senator – data breach incident “raises red flags within this committee.”
- Waymo v. Uberkicks Off With Travis Kalanick In The Crosshairs
- Waymo v. Uber’s big Question: What On Earth Is A Trade Secret, Anyway?
- Google joins “universal stylus” group, hopes for cross-device compatibility: Can you build a universal stylus standard without Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung?
- Push Resumes For An EU Google Tax, With The Bulgarian Government Leading The Way
- Samsung leader walks from prison after bribery charges “suspended”: “Samsung is above the law and the court” says national assembly member.
- iPhone X Damage Report: Two Months Later
- How will new iPhones manage power? Apple’s response to senator raises questions: Apple is also exploring options for those who paid full price for new batteries.
- Op-ed: Apple was right to throttle iPhones, but some things still need to change – Prioritizing battery life and stability over speed was the best move for users.
- Apple sets quarterly revenue record following iPhone X launch
- Apple, Verizon Continue to Lobby Against The Right To Repair Your Own Devices
- It’s Time For A Serious Talk About The Science Of Tech “Addiction”
- The Formula For Phone Addiction Might Double As A Cure
- The Secret To Breaking Up With Your Phone? Remember That You Will Die.
- Comprehensive US cell phone safety study inches toward publication: In this study, being in one of the control groups was fatal.
- Relatively few LG customers will see any money from “bootloop” lawsuit: Chamberlain v. LG was sent to arbitration in June 2017; now LG has quietly settled.
- Toronto lawyer serves claim with Instagram
- IP monitor – Government is reviewing Copyright Act for currency with digital technology
- Moderation Is The Commodity
- 5 Takeaways From Tech Leaders’ Content Moderation Conference: Tech companies’ legal leaders and policy experts gathered at Santa Clara University School of Law on Feb. 2 for a day of panels on content moderation and removal.
- Behold, the 157 new emoji for 2018: New smileys, animals, hair colors, and lots more arrive in Unicode Emoji 11.0.
- Rebalancing Regulation of Speech: Hyper-Local Content on Global Web-Based Platforms (Chinmayi Arun)
- Co-founder of EFF, John Perry Barlow, dead at 70: “The Internet we all know and love today exists and thrives because of Barlow’s vision.”
- Mourning John Perry Barlow, The Bard Of The Internet
CREATIVITY
- Ed Sheeran Among the Latest Musicians Accused of Copying Australian Artists
- Insights: After Music’s Massive Week, Can People Finally Make Money From It Again?
- Tarnishing The History Of Martin Luther King Jr.: Copyright Enforcement Edition
- Director Of Thor: Ragnarok Pirated Clips For His Sizzle Reel
- International Inconsistencies In Copyright: Why It’s Hard To Know What’s Really Available To The Public
- Israeli Music Fans Sue Two New Zealanders For Convincing Lorde To Cancel Her Israeli Concert
- Public School Board Member Threatens Boss Of Woman Who Spoke Out Against School Book Banning
- Come Witness The Commentators That Help The NFL Fool The Public About Its ‘Super Bowl’ Trademark Rights
- BrewDog Beats Back Trademark Action From The Elvis Presley Estate
- Moosehead Breweries Cuts And Runs From Trademark Suit Against Hop ‘N Moose Brewing
- Best Buy Will No Longer Sell CDs and Target May Be Next
- Online Talent Search Company Settles FTC Allegations it Collected Children’s Information without Consent and Misled Consumers
- Understanding the Consumer Review Fairness Act of 2016 (Eric Goldman)
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Right to be Forgotten, eh? Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Says Law Requires Search Engine De-indexing
- Canadian Privacy Commissioner Report Says Existing Law Already Gives Canadians A Right To Be Forgotten
- It is time to overhaul Canada’s data protection—your rights are at stake – Opinion: A draft position by Canada’s privacy commissioner on the right to be forgotten shows how our inadequate laws are being overstretched
- Here’s what you need to know about Canada’s ‘extraordinarily permissive’ new spying laws
- China Exporting Its Surveillance Tech And Philosophy To Other Countries, Helped By Equipment Donations
- Devin Nunes Releases Memo That Doesn’t Show The Surveillance Abuses He Hypocritically ‘Cares’ About
- Missouri Governor Sued Over His Office’s Use Of Self-Destructing Communications
- Judge should order governor to stop using ephemeral messaging app, lawyers say – Missouri governor’s lawyer: Use of Confide is protected under the First Amendment.
- Single-Pixel Tracker Leads Paranoid Turkish Authorities To Wrongly Accuse Over 10,000 People Of Treason
- Digital insecurity of journalists in Pakistan: DRF report
- IBM’s New AI Can Predict Psychosis in Your Speech
- The Equifax “Lock & Alert” app works, but what does it do?: Equifax’s new free phone app can “lock” your Equifax credit report. Just beware of typos.
- Hacker Lauri Love Wins Extradition Appeal; Won’t Be Shipped Off To The US
- In just 24 hours, 5,000 Android devices are conscripted into mining botnet: Worm-like infection targets devices that have seldom-used port 5555 open.
- Why cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off your autonomous car: “It’s like instant replay in the NFL; I can tell what happened.”
- Facial Recognition in Retail: “Attention all Shoppers: We Already Know Everything about You”
- The House That Spied on Me
- Mind The Gap: This Researcher Steals Data With Noise, Light, And Magnets
- GDPR: The Most Frequently Asked Questions: Is a Service Provider’s Privacy Shield Certification Good Enough?
- Children and the GDPR
- Data is power: Towards additional guidance on profiling and automated decision-making in the GDPR (Frederike Kaltheuner, Elettra Bietti)
GAMES
- Valve suspends Counter-Strike co-creator after arrest for sexual exploitation of a child
- Valve Suspends Counter-Strike Co-Creator Following Disturbing Allegations: Cliffe has been suspended “until we know more,” says Valve.
- Counter-Strike’s Jess Cliffe arrested for sexual exploitation of a child: Co-creator of classic first-person shooter suspended by Valve until more is known of charges
- Counter-Strike Co-Creator Charged With Paying 16-Year-Old For Sex
- Charges filed, details emerge for arrest of Counter-Strike’s co-creator: Charged with commercial sexual abuse of a minor.
- “A risk to the community”—Counter-Strike co-creator faces $150K bail post-arrest: Defense acknowledges sexual contact, says client “had no idea” witness was a minor.
- Subnautica developer fired over “many hateful statements”: Sound designer Simon Chylinski dropped from underwater survival game after history of insensitive tweets
- Is it right to classify excessive video game play as a health disorder?: “Once we say games are also an activity that pulls for that compulsiveness, the question is why aren’t more people then getting pulled into it?”
- ‘Dangerous gaming’: is the WHO right to class excessive video game play as a health disorder?: Industry figures question research that ‘pathologises’ compulsive gaming, while scientist involved defends move to address addiction
- Germany is considering a ban on loot boxes
- German Youth Protection Commission investigates loot boxes: It’s “conceivable” that loot boxes violate existing regulation, says commission chairman
- Quantic Dream labels claims of toxic conditions as “smear campaign”: Council of Paris investigating public funds awarded to studio, and considering tighter regulations for companies that do not care for staff
- EA stock reaches all-time high ahead of Battlefront II loot box return: Company’s stock rose 7%, peaking at $131 following recent financial results
- Take-Two swings to profit, has high hopes for Red Dead Redemption 2
- The Myth of Metacritocracy: 10 Years Ago This Month: EA learns a costly lesson about striving for excellence and Take-Two tells it to take a hike
- Take-Two’s usual performers carry company to solid quarter: Record quarters for Grand Theft Auto Online and NBA 2K continue to tide publisher over during a light year of major releases
- Over 1M Battlegrounds cheaters were banned in January alone
- PUBG Corp prepares to introduce new anti-cheat solution as total bans exceeds 2.5m: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds bans one million cheaters in January alone
- Donkey Kong scoreboard strips Billy Mitchell’s high score claims
- Indiegogo threatens to recoup Spectrum Vega+ funds, new release date promised: Former managing director of Retro Computers Ltd refutes allegations made by company’s current directors
- Kickstarter and games in 2017
- Atari Gets The Settlement It Was Surely Fishing For Over An Homage To ‘Breakout’ In KitKat Commercial
- Amid furor over past sexism, Atari co-founder loses prestigious award: Bushnell apologizes for behavior, “applauds” GDC for promoting awareness.
- Twitch Ended 2017 With 15 Million Daily Visitors, 27K Partnered Streamers
- Konami apologizes for announcing nuclear disarmament (in Metal Gear Solid V): Server-wide cutscene event seems to have been activated prematurely by a glitch.
- Capcom’s hunt for a global audience: Monster Hunter was perhaps the best example of a “big in Japan” game – until Capcom’s persistence and confidence finally paid off this week
- Capcom lays off workers at Dead Rising studio
- Layoffs at Capcom Vancouver: 30% of studio laid off as Dead Rising developer reportedly sees one project cancelled, another has scope reduced
- Report: Gameloft closes New Orleans studio, layoffs at Gameloft Madrid
- Sales and profits slip at Sega despite bump in physical sales
- Jump in physical game sales can’t save Sega from sales and income drops: Games success not enough to overcome slumping arcade and smartphone performance
- Sonic 3D Blast dev releases director’s cut after 25 years
- Mojang is shutting down Scrolls’ online servers
- Existing titles drive profits at Square Enix as sales fall flat
- Smartphone success boosts Square Enix after a quiet nine months on consoles: Online titles Final Fantasy XIV and Dragon Quest X boost sales and subscriber numbers
- The 8 Ways Nintendo Can Double Down On Switch’s Success
- I’m A Nintendo Switch N00b Who Just Got A Hands-On With Labo
- The Switch’s premium online service is launching this September
- Nintendo to continue mobile push with Mario Kart Tour
- Nintendo will release a Mario Kart mobile game by March 2019: Mario Kart Tour will launch in the next financial year, the publisher said today
- Nintendo announces Super Mario movie in partnership with Illumination: Animation studio behind Despicable Me and Minions franchises to co-produce with Shigeru Miyamoto
- Why isn’t Nintendo Switch breaking records in the UK?: It’s the fastest-selling games console in almost every market it’s been released in, but not Britain
- Nintendo working on Mario movie with Minions creator Illumination
- Super Mario Odyssey producer settles the debate over Toad’s head: Is it a hat, or part of his anatomy?
- Why Nintendo Switch needs to find a new model of discovery: The family-friendly platform must learn from Steam’s cautionary tale
- After a rocky launch, Failbetter Games ends indie fund and lays off some staff
- NCsoft posts another year of record-breaking growth: Slight declines in mobile aren’t enough to ruin the show as online PC games enjoy a strong quarter
- Steam Winter Sale Data and the Effects of a Front Page Feature
- Report: Google considering streaming service for games
- Google prepping game streaming service – Report
- Google’s “Yeti” is reportedly a gaming hardware, streaming service beast: According to The Information, Google has been working on this for the past two years.
- How mobile game devs are evolving test and launch strategies: Google Play biz dev manager Emily Putze tracks how the traditional launch playbook for mobile games is changing
- Sony’s software strength offsets flat hardware sales: Sony shipped 9 million units of the PlayStation 4 in Q3, down 700k over last year
- Has the PS4 peaked? Annual console shipments are flat for 2017: This is about the age when Sony systems start their long, slow decline.
- Kaz Hirai steps down as president and CEO of Sony Corp.: Hirai hands leadership to CFO Kenichiro Yoshida after six years at the helm
- Sony financials: PlayStation software shines as hardware slows
- As Sony CEO Kaz Hirai steps down, the future of some products is in question: His successor has built a reputation for making tough cuts to get in the black.
- Sony Interactive Entertainment files Inter Partes Review of 3D Video Patent
- Upcoming PlayStation 4 update includes playtime management
- Microsoft responds to indie retail backlash over Xbox Game Pass: Platform holder “pleasantly surprised” by store demand, considering broadening its distribution plans
- Always Be Pitching: How to find and talk to publishers to survive as an indie
- Layoffs at Nexon America after company restructuring
- Jobs lost as Nexon America restructures: But publisher insists there’s no significant impact to overall workforce, layoffs unrelated to struggling Lawbreakers
- UK game dev sector grows more than four times the rate of the economy in 2017: Games development sector contributes nearly £1.5 billion to the UK’s GDP, says TIGA report
- Pillars of Eternity II director on Obsidian’s shift from studio-for-hire to building its own IP: Working on your own IP is “less about the freedom and more about the institutional knowledge to understand what the IP is”
- New studio Lunar Great Wall will also teach games development: Italian start-up’s Claudio Giacopazzi tells us how the team will balance creation and education
- Encouraging charity with Don-Ay, the first ‘donation game’: Italian developer Affinity Project talks us through its mobile endless runner that enables players to help save real-world animals
- Gamevil and Com2us merge in the US: Mobile companies combine to focus efforts in North America
- Keywords expects $186m in revenues after 11 acquisitions in 2017: Service empire’s studio count has grown eightfold in the last five years
- Examining the role outsourcing plays in modern game development
- Tamatem nets $2.5M to localize mobile games for Arabic-speaking markets
- Q&A: Translating the humor & tone of Yakuza games for the West
- Trailmix aims to reinvent casual games – with a little help from Supercell: Backed by $4.2m from Supercell, King veterans Carolin Krenzer and Tristan Clark will push toward a richer and more meaningful take on casual gaming
- Human: Fall Flat dev credits community feedback for success
- “It’s hard to put in words how life-changing blockchain technology will be”: EverdreamSoft plans to demonstrate the new tech’s power by enabling players to sell – and more importantly own – in-game cards
- Blog: Can week-one Steam sales predict first-year sales?
- Latest Steam survey puts Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with equal market share
- Pokemon Go developer Niantic scoops up AR API maker Escher Reality
- Open-source game dev tool Godot Engine adds VR support
- Blog: The next surprise billion dollar game will be on Alexa
- Game dev in Oceania: A hands-off Aussie gov’t, and a Kiwi PM’s visit
- Blog: Are casual games maturing?
- How Tetris was discovered in America
- Smithsonian American Art Museum puts out call for indie devs
- Applications open for Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition: Smithsonian puts out call for indie devs to explore this year’s theme of “game spaces”
- Machinima founder and VR developer Hugh Hancock has passed away
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