Tag: video games
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Interview w/ Sargon Of Akkad on #GamerGate
Everything you always wanted to know about #GamerGate* (but were afraid to ask!) Sargon Of Akkad joins Media Monarchy to give his take on the play control of one of the most popular games around: Divide and conquer! It’s video games, sexism, corruption, coins and more on our first look at GamerGate! Download/Subscribe The Zoe…
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eSports Viewing Nearly Doubles in 2013
from alistdaily.com: Think eSports is just a temporary fad? You don’t know competitive gamers. A report from IHS Technology shows that the numbers for eSports viewing are on the rise, to the point of showing double the growth over the previous year. The report shows that 2.4 billion hours of eSports were viewed over 2013,…
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Video Game Producers: Satan Thwarted Their Kickstarter Project!
from betabeat.com: When a fledgeling Christian video game company called Phoenix Interactive Studios wanted to bring the sacred stories of The Old Testament into our homes, they turned to Kickstarter for help. When that Kickstarter managed to raise less than ten percent of its $100,000 goal, who did they blame? The powers of Hell, of course.…
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Vietnam’s Flappy Bird Developer: It Was ‘An Addictive Product’
from thediplomat.com: After millions of downloads, Flappy Bird has vanished from the App Store and Google Play. Dong Nguyen, the game’s Vietnamese developer, permanently grounded Flappy Bird – a title that was allegedly bringing him $50,000 a week in ad revenue – in an apparent bid to clear his conscience. “Flappy Bird was designed to…
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Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data
from ndtv.com: When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spies could be lurking in the background to snatch data revealing the player’s location, age, sex and other personal information, according to secret British intelligence documents.
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Even Your Avatar Can’t Escape NSA Surveillance
from aclu.org: It seems that literally no one is safe from the NSA. Even digital alter egos living in fantasy realms in the online gaming world are being caught up in the NSA’s surveillance dragnet. A newly leaked internal document reveals that the NSA and British intelligence agency GCHQ have developed mass collection capabilities enabling…
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Twitch Cracks Down on ‘Non-Gaming’ PS4 Streams
from usatoday.com: Video streaming service Twitch is cracking down on broadcasts unrelated to video games after reports surfaced of people using its PlayStation 4 app to stream racy content. Over the weekend, Kotaku reported some PS4 owners appear to be using Twitch in conjunction with the console’s Playroom app to broadcast activities from their locations.…
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Sony Says ‘Blue Light of Death’ Affect Less Than 1% of PS4’s
from washingtonpost.com: Sony said Tuesday that reported problems with the PlayStation 4 are affecting fewer than 1 percent of the customers who have picked up the console since its launch last week. News about the problems have cropped up on social networks and in news articles ever since the launch. But company spokesman Dan Race…
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New World Next Week: Episode155 – Xbox Spying, EU Revolt, Plant Revival
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode155 – Xbox Spying, EU Revolt, Plant Revival Welcome back to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Privacy Breach As Xbox One A ‘Twisted Nightmare’ Obama Intelligence Agency Chairman…
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Xbox One ‘Spy Camera’ Questioned by Australian and German Officials
from StratRisks.com: The Australian and German officials are concerned with the “always on” camera and privacy policies of Xbox One. Software giant Microsoft revealed in the unveiling of Xbox One is the console’s always ‘on’ Kinect camera is being questioned by activities concerned with privacy. While Microsoft maintains that the company has “very, very good…
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Anti-Depressants Help Create Killers
from brasschecktv.com: It’s not the guns. It’s not violent video games. The unifying factor behind virtually every school shooting? Anti-depressant drugs – and there’s a near total blackout on this subject in the news.
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Gamers Hired By Father To ‘Kill’ Son In Online Games
from slate.com: Want your deadbeat kid to stop playing so many video games? Here’s an approach that probably won’t work, but could make good fodder for a Failure To Launch-style comedy. From China, via Livedoor and Kotaku East, comes the tale of a father whose unemployed 23-year-old son was allegedly devoting the bulk of his…
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Digital Download Sales Top £1 Billion In UK
from independent.co.uk: Digital sales of music, games and films have broken the £1 billion barrier for the first time, according to new figures. Research by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) shows shoppers spent £1.033 billion – an 11.4% rise – on downloads, with video games accounting for more than half that figure with sales of…
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Video game publisher pulls real weapons promotion
from smh.com.au: Electronic Arts has pulled a charity promotion that involved the sale of actual weapons featured in the first-person shooter game Medal of Honor. This year, the game publishing giant teamed up with weapons manufacturers to create Project Honor – a fund-raiser that aimed to “benefit the families of special operations warriors”. As a…
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#DataDump: #Flame, Blame, Hall of Fame and more
Massive Spy Malware ‘Flame’ Infiltrating Iranian Computers // SKorea teens flock online to snitch on pro-North posts // 33 Inducted Into The Internet Hall of Fame // SpaceX’s mission ends with a splashdown in the Pacific // NASA Shuttle Bus Delayed