fighting toxicity
Second Wind: Final thoughts on returning to World of Warcraft in 2024, from community to dragonriding
At long last, we've reached the fourth and final part of my series detailing my experiences returing to World of Warcraft after six years...
Activision announces rollout of AI-assisted voice chat mod tools for its Call of Duty series
Keeping toxic voice speech under heel in FPS games might sound like a Sisyphean effort, but Activision is giving it the old college try...
Ubisoft attempts to curtail toxic behavior… by using a voluntary self-training course
To be fair, some effort is better than no effort, but one also has to raise their eyebrows at Ubisoft's Fair Play Program, which...
GDC 2021: Navigating player behaviors and cheating in online video games
GDC 2021 has now offered several panels on player behavior and cheating that are aimed at devs but still provide some good information for...
GDC 2021: Intel and Spirit AI’s Bleep aims to filter live audio – and toxicity
At Intel's GDC 2021 panel "Billions of Gamers, Thousands of Needs" this week, Intel and Spirit AI announced a new end-user application designed "to...
GDC Summer 2020: What online gaming can (and should) learn from social media’s trainwrecks
The circle is now complete: Social media has mastered skills MMOs and online games haven't, not that social media was paying much attention to...
Mordhau says it’s now ‘taking toxicity and racism seriously’ plus adding more maps and modes
"Multiplayer medieval slasher" Mordhau worked its way through the news cycle this spring and summer, first for its dazzling Steam launch and then for...
The player endorsement system in Overwatch has actually cut down on toxic behavior
It turns out that when you reward players for being decent human beings in Overwatch, there's incentive for people to continue being decent human beings....
