COMMUNICATIONS
- What the Federal Court of Appeal Anti-Spam Law Case Means for the Interpretation of CASL (Michael Geist)
- US Falls Out Of Top 10 Fastest Broadband Speeds
- Another 5G Infrastructure Win for the Wireless Industry
- Senators Wyden And Markey Make It Clear AT&T Is Violating Net Neutrality
- AT&T’s “headcount rationalization”—i.e. job cuts—hits thousands more workers
- U.S. Commerce Department Revises Export Controls on Huawei, Permits Some Sharing of Export Controlled Technology in Setting Standards for 5G and Other Technology
- FCC Republican has “deep reservations” about Trump’s social media crackdown
- FCC Adopts Declaratory Ruling and Starts Rulemaking on ATSC 3.0 TV Datacasting Issues – the Broadcast Internet
- FCC proposes $225m fine for spoofed robocalls and state AGs follow suit
- FCC has “serious doubts” that SpaceX can deliver latencies under 100ms
- FCC’s Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment Makes Statement on Civil Rights Demonstrations and the Racial Divide
- FCC Reaches $5 Million Settlement with magicJack
- FCC Proposes Largest Fine in Its History for Telemarketing Violations
- T-Mobile Merger ‘Synergies’ Culminate In Massive 12 Hour Nationwide Outage
- The DOJ’s Plan To ‘Fix’ The T-Mobile Merger Is Already A Hot Mess
- T-Mobile’s outage yesterday was so big that even Ajit Pai is mad
- Platform Mergers: Lessons from a Case in the Digital TV Market (Mark Ivaldi, Jiekai Zhang)
DIGITAL
- Undress or fail: Instagram’s algorithm strong-arms users into showing skin
- Instagram Users: Post at Your Own Risk. Your Public Content May Be Legally Sublicensed
- Instagram To Review Its Policies, Algorithms For Any Bias Against Black Community
- Two SDNY Courts Post Opposite Conclusions on Instagram Fair Use
- Zoom cites Chinese law to defend censorship of human rights activists
- Amid pressure, Zoom will end-to-end encrypt all calls, free or paid
- Zoom & China: Never Forget That Content Moderation Requests From Government Involve Moral Questions
- Philippines Spits On Free Speech, Convicts Journalist Maria Ressa For Criminal ‘Cyber Libel’
- Amazon Senses US Isn’t Currently Receptive To Its Cop Tech, Puts Rekognition On Mothballs For A Year
- Internet Archive ends “emergency library” early to appease publishers
- Internet Archive Closing National Emergency Library Two Weeks Early, Due To Lawsuit, Despite How Useful It’s Been
- KleptoSettlement: Behavioral Advertising Data Collection in Kids’ Apps Leads to Avoidable FTC Fine
- Brokerage Account Formation Process Upheld–Valelly v. Merrill Lynch (Eric Goldman)
- Justice Department proposes major overhaul of Sec. 230 protections
- Per Section 230, Facebook Can Tell This Plaintiff To Piss Off–Fyk v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
- Cybersecurity Experts Support Supreme Court Review of Enigma v. Malwarebytes Ruling on Section 230(c)(2)(B) (Eric Goldman)
- Ron Wyden Explains Why President Trump (And Many Others) Are Totally Wrong About Section 230
- Justice Department Releases Its Own Preposterous Recommendations On Updating Section 230
- Devin Nunes’ Lawyer Tells Judge To Ignore Section 230, Because Twitter Is Anti-Devin Nunes
- Senator Hawley’s Latest Dumb Anti-230 Plan Would Wipe Out The President’s Advantage On Facebook
- Senator Hawley’s Section 230 Reform Even Dumber Than We Expected; Would Launch A Ton Of Vexatious Lawsuits
- Trust & Safety Professional Association Launches: This Is Important
- eBay execs sent roaches and “bloody pig mask” to harass journalists, feds say
- eBay Execs Thought Sending Dead Pigs, Live Spiders To Small News Website Was A Good Idea
- Facebook Defends Not Censoring Political Ads – Looking at the Differences In Regulation of Political Speech on Different Communications Platforms
- Facebook to Allow Users to Block all Political Advertising
- Facebook Lets Users Turn Off Political Ads, Launches Voter Registration Campaign
- The Bureau targets privacy: Facebook Inc. to pay the Competition Bureau a $9M administrative monetary penalty for misleading representations
- Why one email app went to war with Apple—and why neither one is right
- EC opens antitrust probe into Apple Pay, Apple’s App Store
- The European Commission opens formal antitrust probes against Apple in relation to Apple Pay and the App Store
- The Antitrust Case Against Apple (Bapu Kotapati, Simon Mutungi, Melissa Newham, Jeff Schroeder, Melody Wang)
- A crackdown on illegal content – but at what cost? Debate around the EU’s online liability overhaul
- Disclosing networks of state-linked information operations we’ve removed (Twitter)
- Has Twitter just had its saddest fortnight ever?: A tool that quantifies global happiness on social media recorded an unprecedented dip in mood starting in May.
- Twitter Introduces Audio Tweets, Enabling Users To Share 140-Second Voice Missives
- No, Google Didn’t Demonetize The Federalist & It’s Not An Example Of Anti-Conservative Bias
- An investigation of Google’s ad personalisation: After 10 years using Google services, here’s what I learned about surveillance capitalism
- Google Updates Ad Targeting Policies to Help Prevent Discrimination
- New Google rule bans discriminatory targeting for housing ads
- Top 50 Most Viewed US YouTube Channels • Week Of 6/15/2020
- Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 6/15/2020
- YouTube Launches $100 Million, Multiyear Fund To Amplify Voices Of Black Creators
- ‘Dear Class Of 2020’ Becomes YouTube’s Most-Watched Live Original To Date, Raising $2 Million
- YouTube Pulls Creators’ AdSense Fundraisers, Citing Policy Violations—But Will Donate The Amount They Raised
- YouTube To Introduce Channel Customization, Rolls Out Algorithm-Generated ‘Creator Mixes’ For Each Viewer
- YouTube Rebrands Influencer Marketing Platform ‘FameBit’ To ‘BrandConnect’, Taps Google Vet Lori Sobel To Lead Unit
- Buzzy ‘Dad, How Do I?’ YouTube Channel Links With Lowe’s For Father’s Day Contest
- Linus from Linus Tech Tips looks back on YouTube comments and Internet fame
- OpenZFS removed offensive terminology from its code
- Lawsuit vs. Western Digital wants to end any use of SMR in NAS drives
- Collapse of Quadriga crypto exchange was a result of fraud, says OSC: With company bankrupt and founder dead, enforcement action ‘not practical’
- Machine-learning clusters in Azure hijacked to mine cryptocurrency
- Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns From Board, As Company Agrees To Replace Him With Black Candidate
- Viral TikTok Satirist And Donald Trump Imitator Sarah Cooper Signs With WME
- National Security Threat: TikTok
- Cars, Guns, Cider, And Snapchat Don’t Cause Crime
- District of Columbia AG claims online lender violated usury statutes
- Cameo Adds New Product Tier, Enabling Fans To Chat With Celebrities On Zoom
- WarnerMedia Axes HBO Go, Rebrands HBO Now In Wake Of Max Launch
- Netflix Drops Somber Dave Chappelle Special ‘8:46’ On YouTube, Netting 3.4 Million Views In 24 Hours
- Quibi Predicted It Would Net 7 Million Year-One Subscribers. It’s On Track To Bring In Just 2 Million. (Report)
- Eyeing Living Rooms, Quibi Reportedly In Talks To Create Roku, Amazon Fire TV Apps
- Hulu is ending Hulu VR support for most (but not all) virtual reality headsets
- Hulu is Shutting Down Its VR App on Most Headsets Tomorrow
- Snap Taps Rickey Thompson, Denzel Dion For Original Docuseries; Re-Ups With Disney, ViacomCBS, More For ‘Discover’
- The Young Turks To Drop Non-Political Interview Series On Just-Launched Twitch Channel
- ‘Myth: A Frozen Tale’ is Disney Animation’s First Publicly Released VR Short Film, Now on Quest
- After Libra, Digital Yuan and COVID-19: Central Bank Digital Currencies and the New World of Money and Payment Systems (Douglas Arner, Ross Buckley, Dirk Zetzsche, Anton Didenko)
A.I.
- Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized (Ragnar Fjelland)
- Algo IP: Intellectual Property in AI Datasets, Insights and Outputs – the Growing Importance of Trade Secrets
- Deepfakes aren’t very good—nor are the tools to detect them
- Occupational Change, Artificial Intelligence And The Geography Of EU Labour Markets
- If the shoppers can’t come to the shops, let the shops come to them: can AI save our shops?
- Artificial Intelligence and Europe: Risks, Developments and Implications (Jacopo Scipione)
- The Chinese approach to artificial intelligence: an analysis of policy, ethics, and regulation
- Artificial Intelligence and WIPO
- Will Robots Replace Patent Examiners?
- Who’s a Bot? Who’s Not?: It sometimes seems that automated bots are taking over social media and driving human discourse. But some (real) researchers aren’t so sure.
- Can AI mitigate the climate crisis? Not really.
- Getting it right: Using consumer-facing AI tools wisely
- Don’t Miss: A look at the data-driven AI framework behind Destroy All Humans 2
- Boston Dynamics now sells a robot dog to the public, starting at $74,500
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- Apple, SOCAN highlights changing role of Copyright Board, says IP professor Ariel Katz
- Federal Court of Appeal Issues Two Decisions on the Copyright Act’s “Making Available” Right
- I’m So Tired: IP Rights Exhaustion
- SA Music LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc.: Court dismisses copyright claims, holding distribution of work through digital music store requires transfer or download of file containing copyright work from one computer to another.
- A co-hop-yright clash
- Wheely good news for product designers?
- Brompton Bicycle – far from folded
- Riding copyright in the right direction?
- I want to Ride my (Brompton Folding) Bicycle
- CJEU confirms that original functional shapes may obtain copyright protection
- The CJEU confirms copyright can subsist in functional shapes provided they are original
- CJEU rules that functional shapes are eligible for copyright protection, in so far as they are original works
- CJEU on eligibility of functional shape under Copyright Law
- Can copyright protect technical products? Brompton provides some answers
- The Brompton Bicycle – the collapsible bike with a collapsing monopoly?
- WIPO brings ‘poor man’s copyright’ into digital age
- Copyright protection for Brompton’s folding bicycle? CJEU gives green light to the possibility across Europe
- Karen Hepp v. Facebook, Inc.: Dismisses news anchor’s right of publicity claims against Facebook & others, holding exception to safe harbor based on “any law pertaining to intellectual property” does not apply.
- Do You Like The Creepy Dolls Horror Subgenre?
- Pablo Star Ltd. v. The Welsh Government: Court rejects Welsh government’s motion to dismiss on sovereign immunity grounds finding use of photographs in tourism ads is commercial activity without immunity.
- Social media influencers beware: Street art is protected by copyright
- Inaccuracies in copyright registration doom fabric designer’s big jury verdict against H&M
- Stop Asking Marvel To Keep Cops From Wearing Masks With ‘The Punisher’ Skull On It
- Toys “R” Us Successful in Depreciation of Goodwill Claim Against “Herbs R Us”
- Canada: Protective Orders in Trademark Cases
- Netflix Trumps US Armed Forces in Space Race
- Booking.com: Does a dot.com make a brand name distinctive?
- Yes, your product is incredible, but should you call it that?
- The Kimono controversy: a matter of cultural awareness and risk management
- Dissecting SkyKick
- Supreme Court Suggests Claim Preclusion May Be Less Relevant to Trademark Cases and Questions Its Applicability to a Defense Rather than a Claim
- A trademark tasting session to celebrate World Gin Day
- Time to Brighton up that brand portfolio?
- Trade marks: Don’t register them “purely as a legal weapon”
- The Scent of a Crayon: Unique Complications with Scent and Other Non-Traditional Trademarks in Canada
- 3M Continues to Use Lanham Act to Combat Nefarious Use of 3M Mark for N-95 Masks
- Flag Day Greetings
- My Big Fat Greek Lawsuits
- Ninth Circuit Closes Lips on Confusion Claims Against Pucker Vodka
- Flying on Red Bull’s wings
- UK High Court issues latest decision in MERCK trademark saga
- L’Oreal Appeals $66 Million Trade Secret Judgment
- UK based .eu domain name owners beware – Brexit is coming
- Southern District Of New York Grants Motion To Dismiss Patent And Trade Secret Claims, Finding Patents Ineligible Under Section 101 And That Trade Secret Claim Failed To Identify A Protectable Secret
- Follow the Rules! Recent Changes to Canada’s Patent Procedures
- PTAB Designates As Informative a Decision Instituting Post-Grant Review for a Design Patent Lacking Ornamentality
- Federal Circuit Affirms Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal Because the Patent Was Directed to the Patent-Ineligible Abstract Idea of Teaching a User to Play the Guitar
- Encrypting/decrypting audio data with reduced latency: technical
- PTAB Decision on Functional Language for a Camera Claim Limitation
- Efficient use of search tools for prior art and patent searching
PRIVACY
- B.C. woman finds photos, videos of herself for sale online. And it’s legal
- High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach (Andrew Ferguson)
- Quebec Introduces New Amendments to Its Privacy Regimes
- Congressional Reps Demand Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Stop Surveilling Protesters
- Tradeoffs: Facebook Helping The FBI Hack Tails To Track Down A Truly Awful Child Predator Raises Many Questions
- UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet
- Knoxville shuts down parts of its network after being hit by ransomware
- Intel will soon bake anti-malware defenses directly into its CPUs
- More than 7 in 10 Americans won’t use contact-tracing apps, data shows
- Political groups use “deeply spooky” protester location data, report finds
- Tracking Kids Through Your App? Think Again.
- Data Sharing Without Borders: New ‘landmark’ US-UK data sharing agreement.
- Data protection, gaming affiliates, & direct marketing – processor or controller?
- Highest German Court Rules on Cookie Consent (Planet49)
- Can You Build A Privacy Law That Doesn’t Create Privacy Trolls?
- A tale of two cybers – how threat reporting by cybersecurity firms systematically underrepresents threats to civil society (Lennart Maschmeyer, Ronald Deibert, Jon Lindsay)
- Own Data? Ethical Reflections on Data Ownership (Patrik Hummel, Matthias Braun, Peter Dabrock)
CREATIVITY
- Appeals Court Again Says That The White House Can’t Just Remove A Press Pass Because It Didn’t Like A Reporter Mocking Seb Gorka
- The First Amendment Protects Radio Hosts Covering Online Attacks Against A Sports Referee
- Trump Campaign Is So Pathetic It Claims CNN Poll Is Defamatory; Demands Retraction
- Legally Bombed: Reese Witherspoon’s Clothing Company Earns Failing Grade on ‘Free Dress’ Giveaway
- Stolen Banksy mural rediscovered in Italian farmhouse
- Is it Misleading to Name a Product “Potato Skins Snacks” When the Product Isn’t Made From Potato Skins?
- Retrial Ordered in Libel Case Concerning UK Polish-Language Newspaper
GAMES
- Judge rejects defence theory of ‘gaming consciousness’ and convicts man of Marpole murders
- Federal Court Affirms Activision’s First Amendment Rights In Using Humvees in ‘Call Of Duty’ Game
- Activision investigating after Modern Warfare update goes rogue on Xbox
- Nintendo issues cease-and-desist for Switch modchip installation service
- Nintendo Cryptically Points Out That Selling ‘Animal Crossing’ Assets For Real Money Violates ToS
- Rockstar stops hackers from spawning KKK members in Red Dead Online
- FDA approves game marketed as a treatment for ADHD: Prescription-only device is first game-based therapy the US agency has approved for any condition
- May I Have This Dance? Epic Games Prevails in Second Dance Emote Suit.
- Fortnite Defeats Another Lawsuit Over Emote Dance Moves–Brantley v. Epic Games (Eric Goldman)
- Duke Nukem and the Dangers of Acquired IP in Serial Game Development
- Gearbox sues 3D Realms for breach of Duke Nukem acquisition contract: After original Duke Nukem composer sues Gearbox over royalties, developer brings in original IP owner
- Manchester United sues Football Manager makers for trade mark infringement
- Developers remove games from Steam over Valve’s Black Lives Matter silence
- Riot Games exec Ron Johnson resigns following inflammatory George Floyd Facebook post: Johnson exercised “really poor judgement” says Riot CEO Nicolo Laurent
- Little Devil Inside dev apologizes for racist stereotypes shown in trailer
- “The industry hasn’t changed enough — not even close”: POC in Play’s Chella Ramanan and Adam Campbell on the industry’s response to the Black Lives Matter movement, and the effort needed to make a lasting change
- Kowloon Nights launches $2m fund for projects by Black creators: Fairchild Initiative aims to empower Black-owned and led studios worldwide
- The itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality has surpassed its $5M goal
- Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality finishes with $8.1m raised: Over 810,000 people purchased the bundle, which contained more than 1,700 games
- Humble Bundle launches Fight for Racial Justice bundle: 100% of proceeds will support NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Race Forward, and The Bail Project
- Humble’s huge ‘Fight for Racial Justice’ charity bundle has already raised over $1.3M
- Applications are open for Humble’s $1 million Black Game Developer Fund
- GDC renews commitments to supporting game developers in marginalized communities
- Square Enix apologises for “insensitive” Marvel’s Avengers tweet: “Now was not the appropriate time to share this content.”
- Tomb Raider and Deus Ex dev Eidos Montreal opens new R&D studio
- Square Enix announces new Eidos-Sherbrooke studio: The newly created R&D studio will be remote, with premises not due to open until early 2021
- The importance of diversity in games
- The chicanery of Penguin Cretins: Valve maintains its signature silence as wayward developers code-swap games on Steam, leaving users frustrated and confused
- UK government to call for evidence that loot boxes should be classed as gambling: DCMS confirms call will begin later this year, findings will be considered alongside a review of the Gambling Act
- The UK Government sets out its plan of action on immersive technologies (mostly video games)
- Capcom bans ex-EVO champion after racist tweet: Ryan “FChamp” Ramirez apologizes for “very insensitive” post, refuses to call it racist
- Xbox demands racist influencer team disassociate from its brand: Brazilian streamers XboxMilGrau has been banned on Twitch and YouTube, reportedly worked with Microsoft in the past
- Virtual concert company Wave nets $30 million to stage more interactive gigs
- Devs can now dig around in the source code for three games from Blendo Games
- Resident Evil becomes first Capcom franchise to surpass 100 million sales
- Neostream will change character designs using racist stereotypes: The developer was criticised following Little Devil Inside’s appearance at the PS5 reveal last week
- EA extends free Xbox Series X upgrade offer for Madden NFL 21 after player complaints: Publisher is not using Xbox’s Smart Delivery tech, but instead using its own ‘Dual Entitlement’ model
- Xbox expands on Smart Delivery, confirms game progress will carry forward
- PS5 will far outsell Xbox Series X, predicts analyst: Ampere’s Piers Harding-Rolls expects PS5 to sell 66 million sold by end of 2024, compared to 37 million for Series X
- Sony unveils PlayStation 5 design, but remains silent on price
- Spider-Man, Ratchet and Clank, Gran Turismo, and more are coming to PS5
- Sony finally reveals PlayStation 5 hardware—and a discless “Digital Edition”
- PlayStation 5’s reveal was all about continuity | Opinion: Laser-focused on game announcements, Sony’s unveiling was an hour-long promise to maintain the software strategy that has driven the PS4’s success
- Sony announces PlayStation 5 Digital Edition: Two versions of next-gen console shown alongside 26 upcoming games
- PS5 Digital Edition exists because “many consumers purchase solely digitally”: PlayStation boss says no news on price but platform holder is focused on “getting the value equation right”
- GTA Online is getting a standalone release on PlayStation 5
- Grand Theft Auto Online coming to PS5 for free in 2021: Standalone version of GTAV’s online game will be available as a free exclusive for three months
- Grand Theft Auto Online is a killer app for PlayStation 5 | Opinion: The deal between PlayStation and Rockstar has the potential to win over millions of fans for Sony’s next console
- Bethesda’s Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo will be timed PS5 exclusives – New games from Arkane and Tango Gameworks among a handful of console exclusives at PS5 reveal event
- The PlayStation 5 looks to be the biggest game console in decades
- Data suggests almost half of Xbox One users also own a PlayStation 4
- Google cuts Stadia Premiere Edition price from $130 to $100
- Google Stadia Premiere Edition gets a price cut: But it’s no longer offering three months of Stadia Pro for free
- Ubisoft’s next open-world game leaks as an unfinished prototype on Stadia
- The Evolution of Game Genres: NES, Gameboy, and SNES
- Playable Worlds raises $10 million to beef up cloud-based game tech
- For sale to good home: Warner Bros’ gaming division
- AT&T reportedly looking to sell Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment: Take-Two, EA, Activision Blizzard among potential buyers for potential $4 billion purchase of division
- Analyst says a WBIE deal could “set off a wave” of mergers, acquisitions: Stephens’ Jeff Cohen expects largest publishers will be looking to expand their line-ups going into the next generation
- Report: Fortnite maker Epic could sell stake at $17 billion valuation
- Epic reportedly worth $17 billion in new funding round: Bloomberg reports that the Fortnite firm is about to close a $750 million round
- Fortnite “The Device” event was capped at 12m players: But 8.4 million more watched live on Twitch and YouTube
- Latest Fortnite event attracts 12M in-game players, another 8.4M via streams
- Virtual concert firm Wave raises $30m in funding: Series B round will fund “in-game activations and social experiences at the nexus of gaming and entertainment”
- NPD: May US game sales jump 52% – Despite no new releases in the top 10, software sales up 67% as hardware grows 56% for strongest May numbers since 2008
- Mario Kart 8: Deluxe races back to pole position | UK Charts – Ring Fit Adventure holds firm at No.2
- Brawl Stars outpaces Clash Royale on Chinese App Store launch: Supercell’s new game also earned more in one week in China than on its global launch, according to Sensor Tower estimates
- NetEase teams up with Warner Bros for The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War
- New Zealand games industry shrunk 9% in 2019: Rebound expected as next gen console releases loom and subscription service revenue climbs
- The Last of Us Part 2 | Critical Consensus: Naughty Dog’s latest is a great achievement, but a sky-high Metacritic score masks discord among critics about its treatment of violence
- The Last of Us Part 2 review: A less confident, less focused sequel
- Studio 369 formed out of Rune 2 launch disaster
- Unity changes up its business model to prioritize long-term support services
- Playable Worlds lands $10m investment: Galaxy Interactive leads Series A funding for Raph Koster’s sandbox MMO company
- Ziggurat has acquired the BloodRayne franchise and other Majesco licenses
- Ziggurat Interactive acquires BloodRayne and other Majesco licenses: Retro publisher working with BloodRayne dev to revive franchise
- Facebook Gaming Snags TikTok Star Noen Eubanks For Exclusive Livestreaming Deal
- Facebook Gaming Expands Availability Of Key Monetization Tools, Readies New ‘Live Breaks’ Ad Format
- Twitch Looking To Give Creators More Control Over Clips After “Sudden Influx” Of Copyright Claims
- Twitch Faces the Music: A Sudden Influx of DMCA Takedown Notices Hits Twitch
- WWE Lawyers DMCA Tweet With Video Of Independent Wrestling Event, Probably Over A Hashtag That Promotes WWE
- Verizon Inks Three-Year Sponsorship Deal For Riot Games’ ‘League Of Legends’ Championships
- Luckbox closes $3.8m investment round: Esports betting platform prepares to go public after turnover increases 13 times since March
- Is Esports Betting Sports Betting in Iowa?
- Influencers and esports
- COVID-19 & Esports – Part 1 – The Economic and Industry Impact
- COVID-19 & Esports – Part 2 – The Socio-Cultural Context
- COVID-19 & Esports – Part 3 – Implications For the Future
- PlayStation 5 Will Support PSVR, Sony Affirms
- Armed and Gelatinous: Building an arcade cabinet that sticks – Rob Howland and Anthony Prusakowski on taking a goopy game jam title to the arcade, and why that approach might benefit indie developers
- Double Loop’s plans for relaxing mobile games are far from “casual”
- Talking Tiberium: Command & Conquer dev on LAN mode, going open source, and more
- Boomshakalaka: How the original NBA Jam caught fire through chaos
- Pokemon takes another stab at free-to-play with Pokemon Cafe Mix
- Pokemon Go dev Niantic delays plans to end support for 32-bit Android devices
- Pokemon Snap is being revived on the Nintendo Switch
- Over 21 years later, Pokémon Snap is coming back on Switch
- Dissecting the dual-genre design of Disintegration
- Don’t Miss: Creating the ‘hidden horror’ of Observer
- Don’t Miss: Making Insomniac’s Spider-Man do what a spider can
- Don’t Miss: What was it like programming Skyrim?
- Don’t Miss: The game is the boss – Housemarque’s Resogun postmortem7
- Blog: Starcom: Nexus postmortem, an indie dev journey
- Blog: Finding, choosing, and managing moderators
- Video: Golden rules for designing chatbot games
- Watch EA’s Jim Vessella discuss the remastering of Command & Conquer
- Niantic to promote 1,000 small businesses in Pokemon Go for free for a year: Players can nominate favorite local spots across US, Japan, Great Britain, Canada, Mexico
- An EVE Online mini-game is helping researchers better analyze COVID-19 data
- EVE Online’s latest citizen science project to help COVID-19 research: CCP Games has announced the third phase of its Project Discovery initiative
- U.S. Patent no. 10,322,346: Interactive collectible card games with defense and offence team formations
- U.S. Patent no. 10,322,351: Matchmaking system and method for multiplayer video games
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