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USAFacts taps former DataKind CEO Lauren Woodman as new president
Lauren Woodman. (USAFacts Photo) USAFacts, the government-data nonprofit founded by former Microsoft…
Arc Raiders received ‘substantial negative PvP sentiment’ during testing, causing the devs to second-guess its big pivot before realising it was really frustration with weapons and matchmaking
After Embark Studios' "playtest battles" and slew of competing plans caused it…
Ever complained about Overwatch matchmaking? There’s a chance Jeff Kaplan checked your account and all he has to say is: ‘There’s gotta be winners and there’s gotta be losers’
Matchmaking in Overwatch, the boulder to my Sisyphus. This is something that…
Account Recovery Becomes a Major Source of Workforce Identity Breaches
Account recovery processes such as password resets and MFA re-enrollment are becoming…
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WoW’s Horde/Alliance split was ‘really controversial’, says Jeff Kaplan, to the point where it was only locked in 9-12 months before the game’s launch
The factions of World of Warcraft don't mean as much nowadays—which isn't necessarily a bad thing. MMOs are having a…
The best Android keyboard apps for on-the-go productivity – Computerworld
Simple Keyboard gives you, yes, a simple keyboard, with support for tap-based typing — and that’s pretty much it. There’s…
This year’s Overwatch April Fool’s event is a two week Underwatch mode which throws ‘common sense off the nearest ledge’
It's almost time for April Fools 2026, and this year Overwatch has some big plans with a new mode called…
More than 15 years after it was revealed to the world, the game once envisioned as Crytek’s big move into the online military shooter scene is finally closing
More than 15 years after it was first announced to the world, the PvP military shooter Warface: Clutch is going…
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Dispatch doesn’t let you derail conversations with blank, vacant stares because ‘less than 1%’ of players ever chose to stay silent in Telltale games
Aaron Paul's performance as Dispatch's Robert "Mecha Man" Robertson III could hit a lot of notes. Robert could be sarcastic…
Valve says New York Attorney General’s violent videogame fearmongering is ‘a distraction and a mischaracterization we’ve all heard before’
One of the really interesting things that leapt out at me about Valve's response to New York's lawsuit against it…
Valve comes out swinging against New York lawsuit with rare public statement: ‘The type of deal that would satisfy the NYAG would have been bad for users and other game developers’
Two weeks after the state of New York sued Valve for "letting children and adults illegally gamble," Valve has fired…
Anthropic announces think tank to examine AI’s effect on economy and society – Computerworld
Fresh from battling the US Department of Defense (DoD) over AI guardrails, Anthropic has returned this week with a new…
Overhauling Minecraft’s world generation was like ‘trying to build a skyscraper with hand tools’ which basically scared Mojang off of continuing massive yearly updates
Back in my day there were only three channels on TV and one Minecraft update per year. For years, Mojang's…
Microsoft’s brief in Anthropic case shows new alliance and willingness to challenge Trump administration
Microsoft said the action against Anthropic imposes “substantial and wide-ranging costs and risks.” (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) A…
‘We are definitely not doing QTEs’, said Dispatch’s creative director before doing QTEs: ‘We just needed it to not suck’
With the games we used to make , we were so conditioned to gameplay being a thing you had to…
It looks like Macs are becoming the value option – Computerworld
As a result, the number of people Apple can offer a Mac to is growing as rapidly as the product…