politics

The pushback against lockboxes in gaming in the UK continues in spite of the matter not exactly making non-stop headlines. A new study from...

Back in October, we reported on a move by Joe Biden's presidential campaign to create an island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which was...

This has been a long and drawn-out battle, so let us review: Back in 2017 when the outrage against lockboxes was at its highest...

As a US presidential hopeful, you want to make sure you have your message spread to as many corners of the country as possible....

Politically, things in the US are... charged, to say the least, and the impact of misinformation efforts across social media platforms is more in...

Launching into political rants in global chat or hijacking the guild discussion to make everyone uncomfortable with views on election candidates is seen as...

File this one under "I was about to go to sleep when the internet erupted in an absolute panic over Tencent": Late this evening,...

The League of Legends esports community was set on fire and then partially doused this week thanks to a decision - now rescinded -...

Fortnite is a dance floor, a murder simulator, a concert hall, a movie theater, and now, a home for serious discussion: Epic Games is...

Update: We've been updating the end of this piece with all the online gaming studio statements we can find this week. Sony has apparently decided...

This article needs a quick bit of backstory: Chinese doctor Li Wenliang was one of the first whistleblowers for the current COVID-19 epidemic; he...

I have a soft spot for paranormal horror. I love movies about demons, ghosts, hauntings, possessions. There's one particular movie from the early aughts...

Chung Ng Wai, better known as Blitzchung, took a big risk when he spoke out in support of Hong Kong on an official Hearthstone stream....

It would appear that US presidential hopeful and former vice president Joe Biden has an unkind view of most Silicon Valley tech companies and...

Whether we like it or not, the politics of the real world can inform much of what happens in-game, even if people want the...

Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick clearly doesn't fear the Blizzard boycott that is still technically ongoing following Blizzard's October decision to penalize a Hearthstone esports...

Last week, the gaming world was a tad busy running Halloween events and watching BlizzCon, so it passed almost without notice that a US...

A report from UK children's commissioner Anne Longfield is calling for stricter laws on lootboxes and to amend current gambling laws to include lootboxes,...

One might wonder why, possessed as it was of a pretty good week of announcements, Riot Games would willingly put Blizzard's One Ring on...

We probably don't need to tell our audience this, given that while yes, you all have phones, you're also typically not obsessive about gaming...