Grow a Garden, a hit game on Roblox, has spawned a market where in-game items are sold for real money on sites like eBay, potentially violating Roblox's ToS
and spawned a market for virtual crops and livestock that appears to violate company rules https://www.bloomberg.com/... Cecilia D'Anastasio / @cecianasta : New: Record-breaking Roblox game Grow A Gar...
Analysis: Google and Bing show deepfake porn images of female celebrities atop search results for their names plus “deepfakes”, “fake nudes”, and other terms
Google and other search engines include nonconsensual deepfake porn in top image search results alongside tools … X: @cecianasta , @cecianasta , and @benjamingoggin X: Cecilia D'Anastasio / @cecianast...
Study: in May 2023, ~150K nonconsensual porn deepfakes, with 3.8B total views, appeared on 30 sites, up 9x since 2019, aided by services from big tech companies
To stay up and running, deepfake creators rely on products and services from Google, Apple, Amazon, CloudFlare and Microsoft X: @daveyalba , @cecianasta , and @ajmartinny X: Davey Alba / @daveyalba : ...
After Niantic's latest AR game Peridot got negative app store reviews and few downloads, a look at the company's metaverse games struggling to find an audience
Just a few years ago, tech evangelists were hailing Niantic Inc., the maker of the hit game Pokémon Go … Tweets: @cecianasta , @345triangle , @harrymccracken , @joonian , and @hermesninja Tweets: Ceci...
Online crypto casinos like Stake are luring gamers, in some cases to the point of bankruptcy, by using celebrity endorsements and sponsored streams on Twitch
sometimes with dire consequences. New from me: https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... Cecilia D'Anastasio / @cecianasta : New: Some Twitch viewers say they're hooked on crypto gambling ...
An in-depth look at the mechanics behind Axie Infinity and the ramifications of the ~$620M hack on players and the game, as Sky Mavis plots its next steps
Over the course of his life, Alejo Lopez de Armentia has played video games for a variety of reasons. Tweets: @caseynewton , @joshuabrustein , @joshuabrustein , @joshuabrustein , @thedextriarchy , @th...
Developers at EA, Zynga, Ubisoft, and others describe internal turmoil and disapproval over executive-level decisions and plans to use crypto and NFTs in games
Patrick Klepek / VICE : Tweets: @motherboard and @cecianasta Tweets: @motherboard : An internal culture war is playing out across the video game industry, with developers (and players) pitted against...
Gamesight data shows a dip in Twitch viewership on Wednesday, possibly 5%-15%, as some streamers took #ADayOffTwitch to bring awareness to “hate raids”
and it might be just the beginning: https://www.wired.com/... #ADayOffTwitch https://twitter.com/... Dan Telfer / @dantelfer : My Twitch stream will be dark this week in solidarity of #ADayOffTwitch a...
Cyberpunk 2077's developer hamstrung reviewers by forcing NDAs and sending copies just days before launch to prevent players from seeing the buggy mess
Hello! This week in Protocol Gaming, your weekly guide … Jason Sheehan / NPR : In ‘Cyberpunk 2077,’ The Only Truly Punk Move Is Not To Play Tweets: Jordan Carlson / @jordantcarlson : @navalang Also, ...
Interviews with sources and a review of talent management contracts for game streamers show rampant exploitation in the streaming management industry
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired : Tweets: @sesmith , @tigerstylegg , @kendricswissh , @knibbs , @wiredscience , @wired , @cecianasta , @iamasarch , @ggtalentgroup , and @pymms_ Tweets: S.E. Smith / @sesm...