COMMUNICATIONS
- How Can Linking to an Article be Immoral When the Media Source Itself Does the Posting? (Michael Geist)
- How Can Linking to an Article be Immoral When the Media Source Itself Does the Posting, Part 2: A Day in the Life of the Toronto Star on Facebook (Michael Geist)
- Forget Link Licensing and Cross-Subsidies: When it Comes to Tech, Canada Should be Focused on Competition Law and Tax Policy (Michael Geist)
- Class dismissed: CRTC finds OneClass in violation of Canada’s anti-spam legislation
- NASA and Nokia are putting a 4G network on the moon
- AT&T plans thousands of layoffs at HBO, Warner Bros., rest of WarnerMedia
- AT&T Is Taking An Absolute Bath On Its DirecTV Merger
- AT&T Gives Up On DSL, Leaving Many Out Of Broadband’s Reach
- Comcast says gigabit downloads and uploads are now possible over cable
- Verizon’s New ‘Nationwide’ 5G Isn’t Nationwide, Barely Faster Than 4G
- Successful 5G implementation
- Half Of Smartphone Users Incorrectly Think They Already Have 5G
- FCC Adopts Final Rule Formalizing Team Telecom Foreign Ownership Review
- FCC Adopts Rules Codifying Foreign Investment Process
- The November Election and the FCC: Predictions for Five Key Policies
- Wisconsin Gets Wise To Foxconn’s Grift, Blocks New Subsidies
- Employees Say Foxconn & Donald Trump’s Wisconsin Factory Scam Was An Absurdist Hellscape
- Access to Infrastructure: using existing ducts and pipes to install new fibre broadband
- Five Bar Owners Arrested In France For Not Logging Internet Use By Patrons Using Bars’ WiFi Connections
DIGITAL
- Justice Dept. files long-awaited antitrust suit against Google
- What we know about the DOJ’s antitrust case against Google so far
- Bill Barr’s Google ‘Antitrust Inquiry’ Is A Weaponized Farce
- Trademark Genericide And One Big Way The DOJ Admits That Its Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google Is Utter Garbage
- Supporters Of Using Antitrust Against Big Tech Should Be Very Disappointed In How Weak The DOJ’s Case Is
- AOC makes explosive Twitch debut with over 435,000 Among Us viewers
- Facebook and the Group That Planned to Kidnap Gretchen Whitmer: Extremist groups and conspiracy theorists like to connect with each other just like everyone else.
- Facebook Is So ‘Biased Against Conservatives’ That Mark Zuckerberg Personally Agreed To Diminish The Reach Of ‘Left-Leaning’ Sites
- Cambridge Analytica’s Crime Was Not Violating Your Privacy Or Taking Data From Facebook, It Was A Massive Campaign Finance Scam
- Facebook to pause all political advertising—after the election
- Facebook Will Temporarily Ban All Political and Issue Advertising After the Presidential Election
- Facebook Abuses Trademark To Give New Prominence To Group Of Facebook Critics Who Are Trying To Shame Company Into More Moderation
- Facebook announces ban on anti-vaccination ads
- Facebook Bans Ads That Discourage People From Getting Vaccinated
- Facebook’s Oversight Board: what is it and will it make a difference?
- Six Russians accused of the world’s most destructive hacks indicted
- DOJ Says Trump’s Tweets Declassifying All Russia Investigation Docs Doesn’t Mean Anything; Judge Says They Better Go Ask Him
- Twitter abruptly changes hacked-materials policy after blocking Biden story
- Twitter Fixes Its Bad Policy On Blocking ‘Hacked’ Documents
- How Not to Cover Voter Fraud Disinformation: Journalists should treat systematic disinformation campaigns from President Trump no differently than from Russian propagandists and Facebook clickbait artists (Yochai Benkler)
- Court Says Trump Appointee Had No Authority To Fire Open Technology Fund Board; Says They Remain In Place
- How Zello Became A Recruitment & Organizing Tool For The Far Right
- CARU Says: Discord Is Not Directed At Children Under 13
- How a Road Trip Through America’s Battlegrounds Revealed a Nation Plagued by Misinformation
- Google search being searched for Anti-trust
- China Micro-Censors The VP Debate In The Most Hamfisted Way
- Mumbai Police Help Indian Prime Minister Modi Scrub BuzzFeed Of Images That Offended His Delicate Sensibilities
- Democracy & Dragons
- Against Platform Determinism
- Trolling for Truth on Social Media
- Global disinformation campaigns and legal challenges
- Hacking democracy: managing influence campaigns and disinformation in the digital age
- Global competition and the emerging challenge to open data
- The Law and Political Economy of Workplace Technological Change (Brishen Rogers)
- Where Platform Capitalism and Racial Capitalism Meet: The Sociology of Race and Racism in the Digital Society
- Wired Norms: Inscription, resistance, and subversion in the governance of the Internet infrastructure (Niels ten Oever)
- Replicating Silicon Valley? Law and Human Capital in the Making of China’s Tech Startups (Li-Wen Lin)
- Forget TikTok. IRS Inquiry Shows The Continued Abuse Of Location Data Is The Real Scandal.
- WeChat and TikTok Win Preliminary Injunctions Against Trump Administration’s Efforts to Ban the Apps
- Pakistan Reverses TikTok Ban, But Has Stipulations
- TikTok Unboxing Videos Are Driving Record Sales For Mini Brands, VIP Pets
- LinkedIn Isn’t a State Actor–Perez v. LinkedIn (Eric Goldman)
- DOJ Seizes Domains, Claiming They Pushed Iranian Disinformation; Should Raise 1st Amendment Concerns
- The GOP’s Blisteringly Hypocritical Road From Whining About Net Neutrality To Supporting Trump’s Idiotic Attack On Social Media
- While Trump Continues To Complain About 230, It’s Copyright Law That Once Again Actually Gets His Content Removed
- League Of California Cities Want Congress To Change Section 230… To Let Cops Spy On Everyone Using Social Media
- Section 230 Liability Shield Continues to Receive Scrutiny
- Section 230 Basics: There Is No Such Thing As A Publisher-Or-Platform Distinction
- Another Anti-Section 230 Bill? Sure, Why Not?
- Justice Thomas Writes a Misguided Anti-Section 230 Statement “Without the Benefit of Briefing”–Enigma v. Malwarebytes (Eric Goldman)
- Blatant Hypocrite Ajit Pai Decides To Move Forward With Bogus, Unconstitutional Rulemaking On Section 230
- FCC Announces Section 230 Rulemaking
- Chairman Pai: FCC to Address Social Media Immunity Under Section 230
- Jeffrey Toobin’s Zoom Dick Incident Is The Perfect Example Of Why We Need Section 230
- FCC trying to help Trump win election with Twitter crackdown, Democrats say
- FCC cites Title II in defense of helping Trump’s attack on social media
- FCC Too Afraid To Go On Record To Truly Support Trump’s Dumb Attack On Social Media
- Ajit Pai says he’ll help Trump impose crackdown on Twitter and Facebook
- Insights: With Zoom And Its Many Competitors, We’re All Livestreamers Now
- Ted Cruz Once Insisted That Net Neutrality Was The Gov’t Takeover Of The Internet; Now Demands That Twitter Host All Nonsense
- Republicans, Who Have Made Sure The Federal Election Commission Can’t Do Anything, File A Complaint About Twitter’s Moderation Practices
- Content Moderation Case Study: Facebook’s Internal ‘Hate Speech’ Guidelines Appear To Leave Protected Groups Unprotected (June 2017)
- Content Moderation Case Study: Apple Removes Games Containing Confederate Flags (June 2015)
- Content Moderation Case Study: Handling Trolls Invading A Community (1993)
- Assessment of the Code of Practice on Disinformation
- Instagram Agrees To New Measures To Curb “Hidden” Influencer Advertising In The U.K.
- Quibi Is Shutting Down
- Quibi streaming service shutting down after less than 1 year
- YouTube cracks down on QAnon conspiracists
- YouTube Bans Content Endorsing QAnon, Pizzagate
- YouTube Expands COVID Misinformation Policy To Ban Vaccine Conspiracies
- New Google Nest Hub experiment nixes the “Hey Google” voice hotword
- Google Chat goes free in 2021, while Hangouts loses features this month
- Google wants to turn YouTube into QVC with new shopping features
- Can You Avoid Creator Burnout By Working The YouTube Algorithm? Is More Actually Less? We Take A Look.
- YouTube Unveils First 5 Originals Produced By Its $100 Million ‘Black Voices’ Fund
- YouTube Gives Premium Subscribers Exclusive Access To Test New Features
- YouTube Testing Ecommerce Tools That Turn Creator Videos Into Product Catalogs
- Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 10/05/2020
- Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 10/12/2020
- Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 10/05/2020
- Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 10/12/2020
- Is The Creator-Owned “Smart YouTuber Mafia” A New Standard For Digital Content?
- Blast off with Scott Manley as he discusses his top 1,000 YouTube comments
- Google shuts down Trusted Contacts, its emergency location sharing app
- Google kills the Nest Secure, its $500 home security system
- David Dobrik, Emma Chamberlain, James Charles Lead This Year’s Pack Of Streamy Nominees
- MrBeast’s ‘Creator Games’ Sequel Sets YouTube Record With 1 Million Concurrent Viewers
- YouTube Exec Ryan Wyatt Says Valkyrae Is “The Fastest-Growing Livestreamer In The Entire World”
- France Passes Law Giving Child Influencers Same Protections As Young Actors, Models
- Snap Hits Record $50 Billion Valuation After Significant Q3 Growth In Revenue, DAUs
- Snapchat Launches ‘Sounds’, Enabling Users To Orchestrate Snaps, Stories With Licensed Music
- Teespring Will Now Let Creators Vend ‘Digital Products’, Like Photo Presets And Ebooks
- Reels Rolls Out New Content Discovery, Sharing Features
- Twitter Disables Core Functions To Prevent Spread Of Election Misinformation
- Joe Biden Taps Portal A For #ImVotingFor Influencer Campaign On Instagram, Twitter
- Twitter Will Turn Off Some Features to Fight Election Misinformation
- QAnon/8chan sites back online after being ousted by DDoS-protection vendor
- Google Music shuts down smart speaker support and music store
- Logan Paul’s Pokemon Card Unboxing Stream Gets 300,000 Concurrent Viewers, Raises $130,000 For Charity
- Facebook Unveils Free Tool Enabling Creators To Test Video Post Performance Before Publishing
- Spotify Now Lets Podcasters Use Its Entire Music Library In Their Shows
- Riot Games and Spotify team up
- Brooklyn-Based Startup MSCHF Wants To Pay Influencers To Take Down “Evil” Brands
- Stupid Use Of Profanity Filter Makes A Mess Of Virtual Paleontologist Conference
- IBM to split into two companies by end of 2021
- Insights: Could The Streaming Services Killing Movie Theaters Save Them Instead?
- Netflix Nixes Free Trials In U.S.
- ‘Ratched’ Hooks 48 Million Viewers In 28 Days, Becoming Netflix’s Most-Watched Debut Of 2020
- Following Staff Exodus, Bon Appetit Relaunches YouTube Channel With 8 New And 3 Returning Hosts
- Apple pays $288,000 to white-hat hackers who had run of company’s network
- Microsoft thumbs its nose at Apple with new “app fairness” policy
- Trickbot—the for-hire botnet Microsoft attacked—is scrambling to stay alive
- 1980s MTV is back, sort of: Apple launches Apple Music TV channel
- Coordinating office space: Digital technologies and the platformization of work
- Targeting Ontological Security: Information Warfare in the Modern Age
- We’re touching our smartphones more than ever. And it’s changing the ancient connection between the body and the brain
- The pernicious contagion of misinformation: False statements – about Covid-19 and so much else – spread like a virus online. Scientists should study them like one.
- The Internet is full of business cats: Dealing with the breakdown of the work/home divide
- A giant cat picture was just discovered among the Nazca Lines: Archaeologists haven’t yet located an accompanying giant meme caption.
- Another Significant Cryptocurrency Decision: SEC v. Kik Interactive Inc. and Token Offerings Under the Securities Laws
- Unpacking the DOJ’s cryptocurrency guidance: Enforcement priorities and industry implications
- DOJ’s Evolving Framework for Cryptocurrency Enforcement
- The US Department of Justice issues Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework forecasting increased scrutiny of activities involving cryptocurrency
- Chinese City Issues Digital Currency in Pilot Program
- A Map for the New World of Blockchain
- New Export Controls: Emerging Technologies
- New Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy launched at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy
A.I.
- Waymo finally launches an actual public, driverless taxi service
- The Unforeseen Benefits of Driverless Transport during a Pandemic
- Trustworthy artificial intelligence
- Are we being too hard on HAL? Some thoughts on the legal need for “explainable” artificial intelligence.
- AI and Your Legal Analysis
- Artificial Intelligence Licensing: What You Need to Know
- The Losers of automation. How the introduction of robotics changed the European occupational class structure
- To Surveil and Predict: A Human Rights Analysis of Algorithmic Policing in Canada
- Expanding Biometric Class Actions Beyond Illinois
- AI and the fight for inventorship – DABUS patent knocked out in UK High Court
- ‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI
- Human Judgment in algorithmic loops: Individual justice and automated decision‐making
- Algorithmic Censorship by Social Platforms: Power and Resistance
- Is Facebook too big to know? The Markup has a plan (and a browser) to wrap its arms around it: The CBP will pay Americans to monitor the choices that tech company algorithms are making for them.
- Artificial intelligence – from principles to practice
- Doctor Alexa will see you now – regulating artificial intelligence in healthcare
- USPTO Releases Report on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Policy
- Government Data Practices as Necropolitics and Racial Arithmetic
- Artificial Intelligence improves clinical trials
- Legal industry ramping up adoption of artificial intelligence, says AI platform partner
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- Supreme Court of Canada to Hear York University/Access Copyright Appeals
- Justice Luc Martineau is new chair of Copyright Board of Canada
- Google gets mixed reception in Supreme Court clash with Oracle: Justices held a low-tech telephone session in one of the biggest software fights in American history on Wednesday
- Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
- IP Alert | Supreme Court Hears Arguments in “Copyright Case of the Century”
- Supremes won’t review the morality of whitewashing graffiti art
- Denial of Certiorari Leaves in Place Ninth Circuit En Banc Decision Finding No Infringement in “Stairway to Heaven”
- hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn Corp., the Web Scraping Saga Continues
- Music in Podcasts – As Podcasts Shut Down Following Infringement Notices, Looking at the Required Music Rights
- 512(f) Claim Survives Motion to Dismiss–Brandyn Love v. Nuclear Blast America (Eric Goldman)
- By the Book: Unauthorized Material Doesn’t Forfeit Training Guide’s Copyright Protection
- Nicki Minaj’s Experimentation with Tracy Chapman’s Classic “Baby Can I Hold You” Qualifies as a Fair Use Under Copyright
- NY Art Disputes Highlight Fame’s Role In Copyright Suits
- “Can’t Hold Us” Liable: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Win Affirmance in Copyright Suit
- We Interrupt This Hellscape With A Bit Of Good News On The Copyright Front
- DMCA Takedown Notices: A New Opponent for Twitch Streamers
- Twitch blasts streamers with vague, unhelpful DMCA takedown emails
- Lessons from a pandemic: long-term impacts on Canadian trademark practice
- The Cousteau Society, Inc. v. Cousteau: Court holds granddaughter of Jacques-Yves Cousteau cannot escape trademark infringement based on unauthorized use of Cousteau’s trademarks in film projects and materials.
- Microsoft Wields Its IP For Good, Cripples Botnet Via Trademark Litigation
- Will Disney’s newest Toy Story 4 character go ‘caboom’?
- Boston University students launch “F*ck It Won’t Cut It” campaign, University files a Trademark application
- Lehman Brothers is Gone but Not Abandoned
- EU: What does Brexit mean for EU trade marks and designs?
- Comparative aspects of trademark dilution between the United States and China
- Versace ripped off the Canucks’ spaghetti-skate logo
- Depreciation of goodwill with cannabis trademarks
- Determined not to tumble: British Gymnastics’ trade mark dispute and IP protections for sports properties
- The Third Circuit Shares Some Food for Thought on the Bounds of Trade Dress Protection
- Court of Appeal Upholds Interim Injunction in Trade Secrets Case
- How to Keep Trade Secrets Secret
- New Trade Secret Protections in China
- Protection of store layout under IP law
- Protecting Recipes and Food as Intellectual Property
- $644-million award for patent infringement upheld on appeal; Accounting of profits remedy removes “economic incentive to infringe”
- IP monitor: Quebec Superior Court dismisses application for disavowal of a IP monitor – Quebec Superior Court dismisses application for disavowal of admissions of patent invalidity
- Federal Court Freezes Out Motion to Vary Injunction in Patent Case
- US Patent Boss Says No Evidence Of Patents Holding Back COVID Treatments, Days Before Pharma Firms Prove He’s Wrong
- Federal Circuit Restores Induced Infringement Verdict Against Teva
- Watch Out: The Patent Maximalists Are On The Warpath To Destroy Innovation And Empower Patent Trolls
- Applying the Broadest Reasonable Interpretation of the Claim in Light of the Specification, Federal Circuit Revives Claims in Heart Valve Patent
- Why Is My Company Being Sued For Patent Infringement In Waco, Texas?
- Beyond borders: Extraterritorial reach of Australian patents
- Inadequate Translation of a Non-English Application Leads to US Patent Invalidation
- Skinny Label Does Not Prevent Finding of Induced Infringement
- Expert Testimony Stricken Where Expert Did Not Show Non-Infringing Alternatives Were Available in the United States
- Worried about being sued for patent infringement in multiple jurisdictions? Three ways to gain control
- New Grape Varieties – Raisin Awareness of Plant Patents
- High Stakes: Protecting Your Cannabis Intellectual Property
- Nobel Prize 2020: A Chemistry Patent Attorney’s View
- Key IP Agreements for Startups
- Blowing away the competition: design evolution, and what it’s like to be Head of IP at Dyson
PRIVACY
- Canadian privacy and data protection basics for emerging companies
- Sask. privacy commissioner finds clinic’s loss of Dictaphone with patient info was privacy breach
- Location Data Obtained By CBP Comes From Phone Apps, Is Capable Of Tracking People On Both Sides Of The Border
- H&M fined €35.3m under GDPR for ‘Return to Work’ practices
- Fancy Bear imposters are on a hacking extortion spree
- COVID-19 Is Driving The Uptake Of Chess — And Of Surveillance Tools To Stop Online Players Cheating
- Adblockers installed 300,000 times are malicious and should be removed now
- Privacy as an aggregate public good
- United States: California Privacy Rights Act – what you need to know
- Schrems II Series: United States Defence
- In wake of the Schrems II, CNIL challenges use of Microsoft cloud storage to host public health data lakes (the Health Data Hub case – Part 1)
- Judge Shuts Down Vallejo PD’s Illegally-Obtained Stingray
- SF Chronicle Op-Ed: “Prop. 24 is the Wrong Policy Approach, at the Wrong Time, via the Wrong Process” (Eric Goldman)
- The Right to be Forgotten
CREATIVITY
- Quebec court acquits fiction author of child pornography charges
- DOJ Is Suing Melania Trump’s Ex-Friend Over Her Book, Despite Never Being A Government Employee
- Administration Officials (Again) Break The Law By Investigating Voice Of America Journalist For ‘Anti-Trump Bias’
- Devin Nunes Asks Appeals Court To Invalidate Bedrock Supreme Court 1st Amendment Ruling
- ICE Spent Your Tax Dollars Dragging A Journalist Through The Internet Sewer Over A Mistake She Apologized For
- Federal Judge Ridiculously Says That Holding A Sign Telling People Cops Are Ahead Is Not Free Speech
GAMES
- Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against EA in Canada Over Loot Boxes
- EA facing Canadian class action lawsuit over loot boxes: Two plaintiffs seeking damages as suit calls out “unlicensed, illegal gaming system” in over 60 titles
- Mark Sutherland and Shawn Moore v. Electronic Arts Inc. (Notice of Civil Claim The Supreme Court of B.C., September 30, 2020)
- Rune 2 lawsuit alleges deliberate sabotage from Bethesda, ZeniMax
- ZeniMax, Bethesda, Roundhouse added to lawsuit over Rune 2: Ragnarok accuses companies involved in Human Head demise and Roundhouse formation of sabotaging Rune 2 and a game based on the Oblivion Song comic
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is running an Among Us stream to drive voter turnout
- AOC makes explosive Twitch debut with over 435,000 Among Us viewers
- AOC’s debut Twitch stream is one of the biggest ever: And she’s genuinely pretty good at Among Us
- 439,000 People Watched Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Take On Top Content Creators In ‘Among Us’
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Storms Twitch: More than 400,000 people tuned into AOC’s stream of a marathon Among Us session with representative Ilhan Omar and Twitch luminaries.
- US Rep Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitch stream drew 439k peak viewers: Among Us stream with fellow Representative Ilhan Omar and popular Twitch streamers saw highest peak of any politician on Twitch
- AOC’s record-breaking Twitch stream is the future of politics: Young, tech-savvy, meme-literate, and accessible
- Twitch purges videos after “thousands” of requests from music labels: Streaming site offers content creators the ability to delete all videos as it issues “a one-time warning to learn about copyright law”
- Women and gamers of color detail experiences with online harassment in games like Call of Duty
- More allegations surface against Rooster Teeth’s Ryan Haywood: Former Achievement Hunter host described as “predatory,” allegedly taking advantage of power imbalance to solicit sexual favours from young women
- A lawyer’s perspective on the industry’s abuse problem: Toxic family notions, favoritism and lack of regulation all lead to abuse, says legal expert Siobhán Crawford
- Summer video game reveals showed record number of female protagonists: But Feminist Frenquency’s annual analysis warns this may be a “one-off statistical anomaly”
- Liar Liar, Mobile Game Ads Under Fire — ASA Bans Misleading Ads for Mobile Games
- Epic vs. Apple is losing PR steam | Opinion: Sensible rulings in Epic’s legal dispute with Apple have pared the case back to its core question — and shown just how disruptive Epic’s demand really is
- Take-Two Opposes Trademark For An Entertainment Company Running An Axe-Throwing Facility
- NBA 2K21 adds unskippable ads to loading screens: 2K Sports introduces new monetization method to latest basketball title weeks after launch
- Players slam 2K after publisher inserts unskippable ads into NBA 2K21
- Sega takes flak for releasing Golden Axe prototype made ‘under crunch conditions’
- Sega criticised for launching Golden Axe prototype created “under crunch conditions”: Sega edited the Steam page and said in a statement that it “didn’t mean to dredge up painful memories”
- Bungie cease and desist pulls Destiny 2 cheat tool offline
- GameStop’s Microsoft partnership reportedly lands it a cut of digital Xbox revenue
- Microsoft will give GameStop a share of Xbox’s digital revenues
- Xbox’s GameStop deal: lifeline or table scraps?
- Microsoft will share digital revenues with GameStop on every Xbox it sells: Investment advisor says retailer will even get a share of DLC sales if physical game was purchased from another company
- Microsoft confirms Xbox Series X|S launch titles: 30 games will be “fully optimized” for next-gen system upon release, none exclusive to next-gen
- Xbox Series X unleashed: Our unrestricted preview
- Phil Spencer: Xbox could recoup Bethesda acquisition without PlayStation releases
- Xbox head: Bethesda purchase wasn’t to keep games away from other platforms – While each game’s platforms will be decided case-by-case, Phil Spencer says Elder Scrolls doesn’t need to be on PlayStation to recoup costs
- What happened with Microsoft’s Switch publishing experiments?
- Nintendo Nukes ‘Zelda’ Fan Game, As Per Usual
- Switch game discovery – look on the bright side?
- Nintendo Switch shines on Amazon’s Prime Day | UK Boxed Charts: 29 out of the Top 40 jumped in sales week-on-week
- One-third of US gamers surveyed plan to buy a next-gen console this year: Baird finds purchase intent for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S roughly equal, Call of Duty expected to top holiday sales
- The PlayStation 5 user interface is an instant hub that prioritizes gameplay
- PlayStation 5 UI revealed: “Activity” shortcuts, picture-in-picture
- PlayStation Store to drop PS3 content and Wishlists on desktop and mobile: PS Vita and PSP games will also be gone as part of incoming store revamp
- PlayStation clarifies how its voice chat reporting tool will work on PS5
- Future PS5 updates will optimize cooling based on data from individual games
- PS5 will use downloadable updates to control game-by-game fan speed
- Google Stadia’s free demos could prove the value of game streaming
- Amazon Luna is live, and it’s already out-streaming Google Stadia
- Luna, Amazon’s take on cloud-based gaming, launches in (limited) early access
- Growth in UK games industry fastest ever recorded: Games development headcount is at an all-time high of 18,279 in the UK
- Lessons in community building from EVE Online
- YouTube: Among Us videos reached 4bn views in September – Video platform’s report shows US as largest audience, but viewers flooding in from around the world
- Unity creates Social Impact Division to support non-profits
- Unity launches Social Impact Division backed by $67m fund: New division will provide grants for work in education, sustainability, and health and well-being
- FIFA download launch sales spike 31% over last year | UK Digital Charts: Overall sales down only slightly over last year’s entry
- EA Motive boss: ‘player autonomy’ is key to studio’s future
- Avengers assembles September sales chart heavy on new releases: Square Enix’s latest just one of seven games debuting in the top 20 as NPD’s total US game sales for the month rise 10% year-over-year
- Marvel’s Avengers’ next-gen version delayed to 2021 to ensure product quality: Crystal Dynamics is taking its time after initial launch that “was not without turbulence”
- Report: China-owned mobile studio Playtika is chasing an IPO in the U.S.
- Mobile game publisher Playtika files to go public in window for game IPOs
- Playtika files IPO draft: Publisher behind Best Fiends, June’s Journey has confidentially submitted preliminary paperwork to go public
- MAG Interactive reports $25 million in sales: Revenue at the mobile games company also grew 28% from June to August 2020
- Game rental shop GameFly acquired by Alliance Entertainment group
- GameFly sold to distributor Alliance Entertainment: New owner says it will expand US rental-by-mail service’s selection of games, as well as hardware, accessories, and collectibles for sale
- ‘Fortnite’ Taps J Balvin For Latest In-Game Concert In Honor Of Halloween
- New nonprofit organisation Hit Save to support games preservation: The community-driven organisation is based in the US but will operate globally
- Z Event raises €5.7m for Amnesty International: The live streaming event broke the record for the most money raised for charity on Twitch
- Talent Firm Loaded Adds Pro Gamer Maria ‘Chica’ Lopez To Starry Roster
- Facebook Gaming Streamer Avori Henderson Signs With Ford Models’ New Esports And Gaming Division
- Blizzard winding down development on StarCraft II after over a decade
- Blizzard no longer developing new content for StarCraft 2: Developer will continue to issue balance fixes and work with partners on esports
- New ex-Blizzard game studio formed to pick up a fallen RTS mantle
- Ex-Blizzard devs land $4.7m for new studio Frost Giant
- EVOS Esports closes $12m Series B round: Southeast Asia-focused esports firm has raised more than $16m in its lifetime
- Devolver Digital acquires Serious Sam dev Croteam
- Devolver Digital acquires Serious Sam developer Croteam: Publisher further cements partnership following decades of publishing deals
- How the Nemesis system got an indie makeover in Star Renegades
- Ubisoft Connect announced as a ‘refreshed’ replacement for Uplay and Ubisoft Club
- Overcoming AR’s limitations with Mario Kart Live Home Circuit: Velan Studios president Guha Bala on reinventing Nintendo’s best-selling racing franchise for augmented reality
- Sony Unveils ‘Spatial Reality Display’ with Eye-tracking for Glasses-free 3D Viewing: Priced at $5,000 and launching in November
- PSVR Not Compatible With PS5 Camera, New Japanese Bundles Include Adapter for PS4 Camera
- Oculus Quest 2 quietly drops support for Oculus Go games
- Facebook Develops Hand Tracking Method to Touch Type in VR Without a Keyboard
- Cliff Bleszinski may return to games development “slowly and cautiously”: Fall Guys and Among Us has given Gears of War designer hope as he reflects on the mistakes of Boss Key Productions
- Devolver brings in head of licensing to put Fall Guys ‘on the licensing map’
- Ken Williams doesn’t know how his design philosophy could work today: Sierra On-Line co-founder talks about his new book, disconnecting from the games industry, and what’s changed since he left nearly 25 years ago
- Tides of Chaos: How Baldur’s Gate 3 tackles the pure RNG of D&D-inspired dice rolls
- Learn how Supergiant brought Hades’ hand-painted characters to life
- Rocket League’s appeal isn’t rocket science | Why I Love
- Blog: Networking into the games industry as a new grad
- Blog: The in-app purchase merchandising playbook – Part 1
- Video: How Criterion Games improved its studio leadership
- Video: Why your game community is now a marketing asset
- Video: The developers of Ghostrunner discuss the making a cyberpunk platformer
- Don’t Miss: The undying allure of the Metroidvania
- Don’t Miss: Crafting GoNNER’s modular abilities
- Don’t Miss: How the developers of New Vegas took back Fallout
- Don’t Miss: Crafting Danganronpa to surprise players
- Don’t Miss: The designer is god–or the devil–in The Talos Principle
- Q&A: Designing for seasons in bumbling platform royale Fall Guys
- Data Deep Dive: Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale on Steam
- New non-profit Hit Save! wants to help preserve video games and their history
- The Video Game History Foundation is working to save our source code
- French charity steam Z Event raises $6.7 million for Amnesty International
- U.S. Patent no. 9,492,740: Remote and/or distributed equipping of video game characters
- U.S. Patent No. 10,625,156: Method and system for sharing video game content
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