Tencent is already China's dominant online game company, accounting for about 20153 percent of revenue from the country's online game market in 2015, according to Niko Partners, a research firm.
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Bookings were the bright spot for the online game maker.
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ET on the Facebook Page for the online game, H1Z1.
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WebMagic founder Greg McLemore was early to the online game.
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Guac is not extra — if you play Chipotle's new online game.
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There are also other aspects of the online game causing concern.
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NetEase jumped 13.4 percent following the Chinese online game developer's revenue beat.
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The broader online game business was driven by two major hit games.
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Online game communities — the winning ones — keep users coming back for more.
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Or their children can simulate building a fort in an online game.
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That's why The Daily Show made a new online game called The Legislator.
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Fallout 76 is reportedly an online game with a focus on building settlements.
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CNN's Political Prediction Market is an online game run by the company Pivit.
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The online game now boasts over 3 million monthly active users, said Shoemaker.
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Four years later Mr Butterfield tried to create another online game, called Glitch.
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She enjoyed certain solitary pursuits, like romance novels and the online game FarmVille.
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The domain previously had been used to trade cards in an online game.
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Another popular adult online game, 3DX Chat, has been getting people off since 2008.
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NetEase rose 7.4 percent to $281.60 following the Chinese online game developer's revenue beat.
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Ah, the unique challenges of operating an online game with a truly global audience.
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This shows that every online game and platform can become the target of cyberattacks.
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Star Battle: Crosswords editor Will Shortz finds this free, online game fun and addictive.
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He like to play Uno and the online game Roblox, Trinity Usanga, 10, said.
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The Division is an online game that blurs the line between cooperative play and competitive.
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Valve, the company behind the online game retailer Steam, introduced the Valve Index on Tuesday.
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NetEase jumped nearly 10 percent to $287.19 following the Chinese online game developer's revenue beat.
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The first is called "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" or PUBG, which is a massive multiplayer online game.
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Maybe there's an old crappy online game linked to your account you no longer play.
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Occupy White Walls is billed as a sandbox-building, AI-driven, massive multiplayer online game.
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Mr. Perlman founded and controlled the online game start-up OnLive, which he merged with Mova.
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In Destiny, a first-person shooter online game, players protect the Earth from an alien takeover.
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Bad News is an online game created by a team of academics and journalists called DROG.
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According to Wireless Gaming Review, MadMaze was the first online game to reach 1 million players.
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Unlike an online game, AR lights up Ingress by turning the world into the game's battlefield.
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The Slack origin story Find out how a whimsical online game became an enterprise software giant.
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Com Co Ltd and online game developer Wuhu Shunrong Sanqi Interactive Entertainment Network Technology Co Ltd.
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As 'League of Legends' is the most played online game, it still has the most demand.
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Sure, there's the delayed sequel to Red Dead Redemption, and BioWare's ambitious new online game Anthem.
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This addictive online game was built based on the iconic scene from Beyoncé's "Hold Up" video.
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Fallout 3493 isn't our favorite online game, but it is fun to play for a while.
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The space-themed massively multiplayer online game EVE Online typically busies itself with the big picture.
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There's no way to find an online game of, say, "Super Mari Kart" with a stranger.
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The Division is a massively multiplayer online game, an MMO, albeit in a very loose sense.
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The racism, homophobia and misogyny prevalent in many online game precincts can amount to emotional abuse.
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"Every major online game has some kind of in-game economy at this point," he said.
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That means faster performance while you're navigating around menus and online game stores and opening apps.
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The popular online game was downloaded by 150 million people internationally this year, the Washington Post reported.
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Together, they would build Tiny Speck, the company behind an artful, non-combat massively multiplayer online game.
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Play this online game and see how the odds stack up in your favor when you switch.
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The games include Tencent's Journey to Fairyland 2, a 3D online game, and two others from NetEase.
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The massively multiplayer online game has overtaken Minecraft and is wildly popular with the pre-teen crowd.
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K7, home of the popular DJ-Kicks mixes, hasreleased a new online game: DJ-Kicks Playing Cards.
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Created by developer and designer Francis Tseng, the online game was released for free on January 27.
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A quick refresher for those of you coming in cold: Fortnite is a two-headed online game.
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Are Echtra and Perfect World reeling in a larger online game to get it out the door?
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Destiny is an online game first, and it's always been a stronger experience when played with friends.
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It was within this context that Hi Zinvor, the first online game for mobile phones, was developed.
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But the fun factor of any online game, especially a free-to-play one, is a diminishing resource.
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Police claim that the incident was sparked by a heated interaction in the online game Call of Duty.
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Online game firms should also have systems in place to prevent young people becoming addicted to the technology.
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It's a competitive online game that, in its best moments, feels more like a challenging co-op game.
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For the last two years, I'd been playing World of Warcraft, the online game where we'd all met.
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Is an online game even really considered a game unless it has some sort of winter/holiday update?
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Neural MMO is a new massively multiplayer online game, but humans aren't invited—only artificial intelligence can play.
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The classic massively multiplayer online game Second Life is riddled with security vulnerabilities, according to a new lawsuit.
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Nigl, a 23-year-old neuropsychologist from Columbus, Ohio, entered his picks in an online game at NCAA.
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Colonel Quest was an 8-bit online game about the pre-chicken history of the real life Colonel.
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Even Bethesda has started to move away from that, with the still-somewhat-controversial online game Fallout 76.
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Last year, DJ Marshmello reportedly drew millions of attendees to his virtual show in the online game Fortnite.
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For Brendan Hickey, purchasing custom features for his character in the online game "Fortnite" was about standing out.
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After leaving Katamari developer Namco, Takahashi moved to Vancouver to work on the browser-based online game Glitch.
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" Two years later, Tiny Speck launched Glitch, a multiplayer online game described by one outlet as "zany" and "unusual.
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Poptropica, a multi-player online game for children, only allows users to send scripted messages rather than chat freely.
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The conversations on Discord, a platform for online game enthusiasts, were published by Unicorn Riot, an alternative media website.
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PC gaming-centric chat app Discord recently launched an online game store of its own to compete with Steam.
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Fortnite running on ultra graphics was dropping frames, but a smaller online game like Farm Together ran pretty well.
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Still others agonized over missing concerts of their favorite singers or South Korea's largest online game exhibition this week.
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Devoted Netflix fans just got the best belated holiday gift ever, an online game dedicated to their favorite shows.
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You're seeing Transformers activated in mobile gaming, you're seeing it on a PC online game with Tencent in China.
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I didn't have a concept of anything else... And now, I haven't played an online game in over a year.
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You can thank electrical engineer Jason Wright, creator of the new online game Brand New Subway, for the power trip.
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Niantic's first effort, Ingress — an augmented-reality, massively multiplayer, location-based online game — cultivated a small but very dedicated following.
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Mythic Quest is set in a game studio and follows the team behind a wildly popular massively multiplayer online game.
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The feeling is crystallized when, early in the film, she and Ralph head to an online game called Slaughter Race.
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A free online game called Decisions That Matter, which was developed by a team of graduate students at Carnegie Mellon
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An old online game called Pandemic 2 has seen a massive spike in plays in 2020 amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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The highest-grossing video game adaptation at the box office is "Warcraft," based on the World of Warcraft online game.
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Image: HQ HQ trivia is so popular that it regularly fails to broadcast its online game show at the proper time.
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He had already built a successful online game but was forced to shut it down after receiving those patent infringement notices.
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To that end, they recruited a team with experience working on projects like massively multiplayer online game (MMO) and AAA games.
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Currently, the most successful video game adaptation at the box office is "Warcraft," based on the World of Warcraft online game.
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It therefore seems reasonable to suggest that a permanent ban from an online game is, if anything, a highly lenient punishment.
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You can play dress-up with your Squid Kid in Nintendo's paint-splattered online game, and store inventories rotate every day.
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And as he visited the famous and Brighton Pavilion, Harry even weighed in on the controversy surround the online game Fortnite.
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The creator of the "Farmville" online game expects to release just one new game in the current quarter, pressuring its results.
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Here Payne cites work done by psychologists at N.Y.U., who offered subjects ten dollars with which to play an online game.
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As examples, he cites clothing retailer Uniqlo Co., e-commerce company Rakuten, and online game developers Nintendo and Sony Computer Entertainment.
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The books have regularly appeared on best-seller lists and have been spun into comics, short stories and an online game.
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Although he preferred not to name which game it was, he said it was a large MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online game).
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So the team developed computer programs that mine statistical data to prove cheating, which they say has saved the online game.
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It has put together an online game, called Troll Factory, that lets you play at being, well, a hateful troll. Literally.
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Several of his smaller acquisitions, among them the video-focused Maker Studios and Playdom, an online game company, have been misfires.
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H&M's digital push: H&M (HNNMY) is teaming up with Swedish fintech company Klarna to step up its online game.
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You can also join the community of 30 million chess players around the world to challenge anyone to an online game.
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The first is "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds," or PUBG, a massive multiplayer online game that Tencent has the rights to run in China.
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Yahoo Games, the once-hopping online game hub best known for its simulacrum of classic board and card games, is shutting down.
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It may not be Destiny, but Anthem is a similar breed of online game and it needs fans to hop on board.
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GeForce Now is compatible with hundreds of games that you can purchase or download through online game stores like Steam, Blizzard's Battle.
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It's an MMO — a "live," constantly evolving online game — and that type of experience depends on a regular flow of new stuff.
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According to Fortune, the "swatting" call was made following an argument in the online game Call of Duty alongside a $1.50 bet.
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The company will have an opportunity to gauge interest in what is arguably its flagship online game after it launches in July.
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One runs an online game that teaches healthcare workers how to reduce child mortality rates in Africa and will launch before Christmas.
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Bungie has long shied away from comparisons that lump Destiny together with a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) like World of Warcraft.
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In his time away from games, publishers stopped trying to outright copy the ultra successful massively-multiplayer online game World of Warcraft.
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According to the station, the phone had also accessed a message board dedicated to an online game in which players fight cannibals.
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"I speculate that males are more susceptible to the effects of long-term online-game playing in comparison with females," Sun concluded.
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Bookings are a metric indicating future revenue, including sales of virtual goods, and a key statistic for the popular online game developer.
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They'd be easier to play on a desk, and I would never bother playing any competitive online game with the Razer Turret.
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Neopets, as you probably know if you're reading this, is an online game where players care for different sorts of digital pets.
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LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - The new online game "Razor Wire" has three fiendishly tricky levels to it: First, escape war in your home country.
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There are, of course, genuine friendships forged in online game worlds and on social media, and I don't mean to dismiss those.
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Or perhaps you have a valuable account for an online game, run an online small business, or own other important digital assets.
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Currently, the highest-grossing video game adaptation at the box office is Universal's "Warcraft," based on the World of Warcraft online game.
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It turns out that she's been slowly building her dream house with a free online game, and she wants to visit it again.
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The tax covers services such as Hulu and Netflix, as well as all digital music, app, e-book, online game, and ringtone purchases.
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It's a more forgiving game than you might expect given some of the hyperbolic discourse that's bouncing around the online game-o-sphere.
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Zynga — Zynga named Frank Gibeau as its new chief executive officer, with founder Mark Pincus becoming executive chairman of the online game creator.
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Then there's Eco, an online game which tasks players with collaboratively creating an advanced civilization albeit one in tune with its natural surroundings.
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Now, Jorge and his wife, Angela Gonzalez, claim the online game that targets impressionable teenagers is the reason Isaiah took his own life.
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MADE is currently working to recreate Habitat, a 1986 LucasArts online game and one of the earliest examples of an online virtual world.
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That is because people cannot pay for anything in an online game without a credit card, which Brazilian gamers typically do not use.
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What started out as an in-class learning game has shifted to an online game with classes from anywhere across the United States.
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I am very bad at Catan, but I love my friends and being competitive, so I was excited to coordinate an online game.
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It's why for-profit colleges got into the online game early, and why public and private institutions are rapidly growing their offerings now.
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Before Slack became the multibillion-dollar business it is today, it was an oddball multiplayer online game on the brink of financial failure.
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A September password breach of online game company Zynga affected 170 million people, according to a new report from Have I Been Pwned.
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So what's the point of making an online game about the subway—or even gun violence and insane medical costs, for that matter?
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The students also said that Harry even exclaimed, "What is wrong with parents," after they said they were allowed to play the online game.
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According to Google, Stadia hopes to fuse both online game streaming and video game streaming platforms like Twitch into a single new game community.
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This year's most popular boy band and the most popular online game came together on Tuesday night, with a little help from Jimmy Fallon!
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Rosie's been getting her kicks playing an online game called "Push Trump Off a Cliff Again" and she's promoting it on her social media.
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Shares of online game developer Zynga rose 12 percent on Tuesday following a Bloomberg report that the company has received takeover interest from rivals.
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Razer, known mainly for gaming laptops and peripherals, expanded its ecosystem today with the launch of Razer Game Store, an online game distribution platform.
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In "(UN)TRAFFICKED", a new Indian online game, the aim is to prevent a 13-year-old girl from being trafficked into child slavery.
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This section concludes with an online game, Reality River, that asks kids to use their best judgment in order to cross the river rapids.
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Roblox, the massively multiplayer online game favored by the under 193 crowd, is following in Minecraft's footsteps with a move into the education market.
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The buyer was identified as Chen Tianqiao, a Chinese billionaire and a founder of the Shanda Investment Group, whose interests include online game development.
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Tencent (TCEHY), the Chinese social media and online game giant, dropped 0.7% despite getting regulatory approval to sell two new video games in China.
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Mr. Lukashenko's son is a fan of World of Tanks, a multiplayer online game developed in Belarus in which people fight in tank battles.
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And the latest issue came when regulators stopped Tencent from selling "Monster Hunter: World," a popular online game created by Japanese gaming firm Capcom.
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Cinemas, clubs and bars, massage parlours, karaoke shops and online game centres in urban cities are required to close until the end of March.
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An MMO is an online game in which a large base of players cooperate or compete with one another in a vast, persistent open world.
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Battlegrounds shows another way: The online game not as a competitive sport but almost as a performance space, as a toolbox for creating emotional arcs.
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Amazon Game Studios has announced its latest project: a Lord of the Rings massively multiplayer online game that Amazon is developing in partnership with Leyou.
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But these hacks do have a harmful effect on an online game community by undermining the integrity of a title's fair and level playing field.
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And that brings us to this latest news, of Alt-J launching an online game to promote their new album Relaxer, due on 2 June.
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Sure, not everyone is going to be able to program their own online game as a CV, but Leonardi's résumé still provides a valuable lesson.
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The release comes as industry leader Tencent is reeling from increased scrutiny of online gaming that has limited the number of new online game releases.
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The out-of-nowhere success of PUBG almost guaranteed we'd start to see the "battle royale" style of competitive online game creep into popular titles.
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Other times, a huge influx of players will occur simply because another online game shut down, resulting in a shift in the game's power structure.
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Each month at least 70m people play "League of Legends", a complex multiplayer online game; that is more than play baseball, softball or tennis worldwide.
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Last December, a Kansas man was killed by police in a swatting episode prompted by a feud in an online game of Call of Duty.
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If Valve sounds familiar, that's because it's the maker of online game platform Steam as well as games like Half-Life, Portal, and Counter-Strike.
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It was an ambitious timeline for the developer of any big online game, let alone one in the dire straits Interplay had found itself in.
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My week playing it as a part of a tight-knit unit was one of the more memorable experiences I've had in an online game.
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In Europe, Sander van der Linden, a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge, codesigned an inoculation-based online game with doctoral researcher Jon Roozenbeek.
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When I spent more time with them last summer, Salem had just noted their hormone treatment in a chat among players during an online game.
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After meeting in the online game, a 22-year-old rapper from Harlem and an 81-year-old retiree in Florida met in real life.
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Matchmaking is supported in each of the online game modes, running the Valve Anti-Cheat to prevent cheating and match players of similar skill levels.
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Rockstar routinely pushes out free updates to the online game — 12 major ones during the last fiscal year alone — that provide new scenery and action.
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Yet last week, Blizzard took the wraps off Overwatch 2, a sort of hybrid between your standard online game expansion and a full-blown sequel.
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We know Avengers has big ambitions as a cooperative online game with hooks designed to keep people playing long after the story's credits have rolled.
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Then, layered on top of that, is an always-online game that pushes players toward cooperative and competitive "pinnacle" activities – with the rewards to match.
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It's not that they necessarily hate the synthy holiday tune—rather, the ban is designed to aid participants of a decentralized online game called Whamageddon.
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The league has found a global fanbase and the teams have created an atmosphere that makes fans excited to come watch an online game in person.
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Similar to Slack, which began as an artful online game, Aspen has prioritized design in building Navigator, the first of many products it plans to launch.
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That's an especially amazing feat when you remember that Fortnite was originally conceived as a cooperative online game of building defenses and fending off monster assaults.
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League of Legends hackers and cheaters using LeagueSharp paid $15 to $50 a month to use the service, ruining the integrity of the competitive online game.
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On Bungie's stream, the company constantly referred to Destiny as a massively multiplayer online game (MMO), and that's not something we've heard from the company before.
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Roblox, a hugely popular online game for kids, was hacked by an individual who subverted the game's protection systems in order to have customized animations appear.
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While Fortnite is its most prolific release, Epic also makes money from other games, Unreal Engine and a recently launched online game store that rivals Steam.
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PT — and in typical fashion for the biggest massive multiplayer online game around, the occasion was marked with obscenely long wait times just to get started.
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The other new offerings are New World, a multiplayer online game set in a desolate, hostile land, and Crucible, a survival game on an alien planet.
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That does not matter if you are watching a movie on Netflix, but it becomes excruciating when playing an online game that relies on fast reflexes.
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Authorities have ordered the closure of cinemas, clubs and bars, massage parlours, karaoke lounges and online game centres in urban areas until the end of March.
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You can play Catan Universe on your browser, download it as an app on Google or Android, or play it via Steam, an online game platform.
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The online game unfolds from the point of view of an attacker, aiming a weapon down a school corridor or throwing a grenade into an auditorium.
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The first involves another mega-hit known as "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds," or PUBG, a massive multiplayer online game that Tencent has the rights to run in China.
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The other day I attempted to blot out the world by playing an online game called Two Dots, which is exactly as profound as it sounds.
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Fallout 76 is Bethesda's first game to launch on its own digital distribution platform, its first online game developed in-house, and its first major failure.
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The game, called Glitch, was a "massively multiplayer online" game where, instead of killing enemies, players went on quests and learned skills like baking or meditation.
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It was also the follow-up to FFXI, which saw the series pivot from its single-player roots to the ultra-competitive massive-multiplayer online game space.
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The tax (dubbed the "Netflix tax") covers services such as Hulu and Netflix, as well as all digital music, app, e-book, online game, and ringtone purchases.
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Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto Online, which launched over five years ago, isn't the studio's newest online game — it was upstaged by Red Dead Online last year.
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The first releases from the partnership are expected later this year, and the Financial Times reports that one of those initiatives will likely be an online game.
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The minimalist online game stripped players of all identity, rendering each an identical, anonymous robed figure without a name or any ability to communicate aside from chirps.
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Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Wednesday announced that he will introduce legislation banning "manipulative" online game features he says can push children to become addicted to technology.
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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft recently made headlines by purchasing one of seven teams for the Overwatch League, a popular online game produced by Activision Blizzard.
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A member of the public also reported that their adult son had built up debts of more than £50,000 through spending on microtransactions in online game RuneScape.
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Neuroscientists have scanned the brains of people who have cruelly been excluded from an online game or looked at a photo of their ex who dumped them.
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A Fortnite primer: For the uninitiated, it's an online game where hundreds of players duke it out in a battle royale set on a post-apocalyptic Earth.
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The online game and app pits players head-to-head in a "strategic race to power" to garner 22019 electoral votes and become the commander in chief.
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Instapaper is temporarily shutting off access to European users, while an online game called Ragnarok Online is shutting down European servers after a decade in operation and Unroll.
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A few weeks ago both my kids were playing an online game, and one of the other players had a username "KillAllMuslims" — they were deeply troubled by it.
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The online game allows players to become one of three avatars inspired by real Stoneman students— Emma, David, or Delaney — and march to Washington to change gun laws.
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Those who did make it onto trains could while away the journey playing "Southern Rail Tycoon", a facetious online game that rewards players for each service they cancel.
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It sounds ridiculous: that something like an online game could be used to get people who would not normally trust each other to interact and build social connections.
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Stadia uses its own social features and friends lists, so Destiny 2 (and any online game like it) will live or die on the strength of that community.
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In addition to playing Words With Friends, a Scrabble-like online game, on his iPad, Mr. Obama turns up the sound on the television for big sports games.
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The company revealed the date after users participated in its annual I/O teaser, which this year was a collaborative online game to restore a fictional satellite network.
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My children have long endorsed Roblox, an online game full of user-generated content and puzzles, with graphics that may remind you of the blocky pixels of Minecraft.
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Rogers and the girl connected through an online game, feds say The court document doesn't say exactly how or when Rogers and the girl first contacted each other.
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The shared rush to interpret clues from a "drop" of information from Q resembles something close to what video gamers call an MMO, or massive multiplayer online game.
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Unlike the old Final Fantasy they played together on the NES, FFXIV is a massively multiplayer online game, where friends can get together to hang out and slay monsters.
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She called anyone who supports Trump a "Nazi" for working with "Adolf Hitler, " and she once promoted an online game that prompts players to push Trump off a cliff.
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How the World Reacted So far, online game developers, sponsors, and events' organizers around the world have expressed solidarity in the global mission to eliminate the match-fixing problem.
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But a woman with the same name is the chief executive of a publishing and online game company located in the same Hong Kong office tower as Frontier Services.
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" One-Tap shoes are styled in black and silver, the colors of Made in Brazil – an IGC team that competes professionally in the online game "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
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The figures come as Chinese technology companies weather the impact of new regulations, such as the suspension of new online game licenses and measures to censor content deemed undesirable.
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Whether it's to quickly open chat or access the different features of an MMO (massively multiplayer online game), the K95 gives you full control over the game you're playing.
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Last year, a team supported by Mozilla created an online game called "Monster Match," which shows how your initial preferences can narrow the results you see down the line.
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Reynolds stars as a milquetoast bank teller who realizes one day that his life is an artificial construct and he's a random background player in some massive online game.
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Graphic: RobloxA seven-year-old girl was playing the online game Roblox a few weeks ago when her in-game character was assaulted by two other characters in the game.
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Whether you're watching Netflix or playing an online game, the path between you and the server is constantly shifting, and network operators are continuously monitoring where and how you're connecting.
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Today Rockstar announced the next update for the game, which is focused primarily on reducing griefing, a problem that has plagued the online game since its debut late last year.
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But to avoid a case of Dota vu, where another big TI makes a splash that doesn't last, here are some suggestions to bolster this juggernaut of an online game.
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Bethesda has a special holiday offer in place for anyone who's played Fallout 76, which takes the popular apocalypse-centered role-playing game and turns it into an online game.
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Fortunately, as you may remember from previous announcements, the cost is pretty low; $20 per year, and it gets you online game access and a growing library of NES classics.
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"Minecraft" (without the space) is an online game that is insanely popular among middle school- and high school-aged kids (yes, you can be older and still like the game.
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While players can do many things free, there are plenty of opportunities for them to buy virtual weapons, vehicles and other items to make their online game-playing more fun.
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The frequent introduction of new symbols and arcane plot points to dissect and decipher has given QAnon the feel of a theological study group, or a massive multiplayer online game.
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In case it hasn't taken over your office or dorm yet, here's a quick explainer of the free online game that recently hit a record of 3.4 million people playing concurrently.
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Delaware's high court ruled that the Court of Chancery erred when it dismissed the lawsuit against the board of Zynga, which created the online game Farmville, in February for procedural reasons.
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The online game puts users in the place of a fake news creator, allowing them to make misleading or fake Tweets, websites and memes as they gain virtual followers and credibility.
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As part of a multimillion-dollar deal with Druids of the Shore, the studio behind the popular Castles & Sphinxes online game, the AI will have a totally new instance booted up.
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Cibele, by Star Maid Games, allows you to play a fictional multiplayer online game called "Valtameri" as the teenaged female protagonist, with interludes where you explore the files on her desktop.
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Beyond Good & Evil 2 will be both a single-player experience and a co-operative online game, as Ancel says you'll be able to play either by yourself or with friends.
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CNN's Political Prediction Market is an online game administered by the company Pivit, which functions like an online market and allows Internet users to predict the outcome of the 2016 election.
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WiiWare, the company's first venture into online game publishing, never made a major impact — the prohibitive 40MB download limit, lack of advertising, and developer-hostile sales requirements all played a part.
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Huddled over smartphones in a Jakarta arena, eight teams duelled throughout Sunday for supremacy in Tencent's online game Arena of Valor (AOV), trading supernatural blows, slaying dragons, and invading enemy towers.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The University of Washington launched the online game Foldit in 2008, and since then it has successfully engaged the public in solving puzzles for science.
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She was something of an ambassador for the assembled fans of League of Legends, a multiplayer online game that draws amateur and professional players, as well as sponsors and fantasy leagues.
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The story kicks off in 2009 when Stewart Butterfield began building a startup called Tiny Speck that would later come out with Glitch, an online game that was neither fun nor successful.
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Gilmore says that the key to making an online game watchable is making it easy to understand at a glance, which in turn makes it easier to anticipate what could happen next.
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Playing the same video game works too, whether it be an online game with voice chat capabilities or perhaps a good 'ole game of Dungeons and Dragons with a group over FaceTime.
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CNN's Political Prediction Market is an online game, administered by a company called Pivit, that functions like an online market and allows Internet users to predict the outcome of the 2016 election.
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It's the kind of online game that will clearly change over time, and it could be a surprise hit this year after months of careful game tweaks in response to community feedback.
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It will also extend to online game makers and internet cafes, who may have to put a curfew on the hours minors can play, preventing them from staying up into the night.
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The effort will launch with an inaugural batch of four startups: a multi-player online game, a sensor-based mobile gaming company, a "social music marketplace" and a women-owned craft distillery.
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The outage may have caused the collapse of a studio whose online game launched around the same time, and the personal and financial information of users was potentially exposed to malicious hackers.
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One standout in the premium PC segment was Bluehole's "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds," a new massively multiplayer online game in which players parachute onto an island and try to defeat and outlast other gamers.
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And while it was hardly the first massively multiplayer online game that'd hooked people into playing hundreds and hundreds of hours, it was far and away the most successful one to date.
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HONG KONG, May 12 (Reuters) - Online game developer Boyaa Interactive International Ltd said its chairman is being investigated by judicial authorities in China, although details of the probe were not yet known.
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First, there is Zynga, the online game developer whose $10 billion valuation soon after its 2011 IPO was heavily dependent on Facebook traffic, in much the same way Pinduoduo depends on WeChat.
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He has also taken smaller gigs like hosting the popular online game HQ Trivia, where he helped give away a $300,000 cash prize, and he may even be considering running for president.
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The PC-only shooter is a competitive online game that is expected to borrow the original's fast pace while amping things up with a roster of "hero" characters, similar to Blizzard's Overwatch.
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The marketing campaign included an online game where consumers can gift friends a a can of "Hustle," which will be available at retailers such as Whole Foods, Key Food and Food Town.
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So now that that's our basis for creating this online game, we've introduced things like voice chat and other methods of connection in the game that allows for immediate communication while you're hunting.
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As a persistent online game, Anthem will likely have some kind of in-game purchases, and Söderlund says that, following Battlefront II, EA is looking at this area with more scrutiny than ever.
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The company's payments and other fees revenue, which includes online game purchases and peer-to-peer transactions on the platform, skyrocketed 46 percent quarter over quarter during the fourth quarter to $274 million.
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That means that any company who provides internet service to the public should deliver, say, a Netflix stream, an online game, a video conference call, or a Spotify playlist in the same way.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Chinese video gamers crushed a team from Europe on Sunday who were hoping to break the domination of Asian players in the world championship finals of online game "League of Legends".
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The ostensible protagonist, Matias (Colin Woodell), having purloined a snazzy laptop on the day of his online game night with pals both geographically local and far-flung, runs afoul of its actual owner.
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We recruited several hundred volunteers to play an online game that involved giving and receiving small sums of money, and created a situation in which people witnessed one player stealing another player's money.
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Jacobs, who mortgaged his home to start investing in virtual property, broke records when he sold his nightclub to other users in the multi-player online game Entropia Universe for $635,000 in 2010.
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But as Liam Robertson claims in a new YouTube video for Unseen64, for a time we were on the verge of having a massively multiplayer online game called Hero World based on the concept.
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Tencent confirmed the investment in a statement, adding that Shanda was "one of the most widely recognized online game companies in China" and that its strategic investment would boost the smaller firm's growth prospects.
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The 35-year-old Petersen is urging others to take a closer look at their security settings as well as monitor activity on the user-generated online game before allowing their children to participate.
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While it's not quite as catastrophic for an online game as a proper Christmas day outage, the time between Christmas and New Year's is sure to be a massive week for Epic's hit game.
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The games felt urgent since you could only participate at designated times, fun to play against friends or strangers, and winning carried a significance no single-player or non-stop online game could match.
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Slack, begun in 2013 by Mr. Butterfield and a handful of other entrepreneurs, was the byproduct of a failed attempt to create a big multiplayer online game called Glitch, which was released in 2011.
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In 2012, Paragon Studios announced it was shutting down City of Heroes, a massively multiplayer online game where a community of players created their own superheroes, went on adventures together, and formed lasting friendships.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's power company has asked the makers of Fortnite to no longer allow players to scale electric poles in the popular online game, saying this risked encouraging dangerous copycat behavior among children.
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Maybe you've heard the name before: World of Warcraft, the Blizzard-produced massively multiplayer online game that was released in its classic, preexpansion form on August 26th but was originally released in November 2004.
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A mega-hit known as "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds," or PUBG, a massive multiplayer online game that Tencent has the rights to run in China, is waiting approval so the Chinese tech giant can monetize it.
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Big Ten Universities Entering a New Realm: E-Sports Most of the conference's universities will field teams in the multiplayer online game League of Legends, and the Big Ten Network will broadcast select games.
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Everyone always looks at us to solve the toxicity problem with some magical game design fix (one that has not yet been invented by any online game thus far)... anonymity does weird things to humanity.
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Psyonix was a small, mostly contract studio that created a blockbuster online game that became an overnight success and now, a few years later, it gets scooped up by the cash-flush creator of Fortnite.
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The Momo Challenge is reminiscent of a similar panic over another online game that went viral and attracted widespread concern in 2017 called the Blue Whale Challenge, the existence of which also remains in dispute.
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Then we discuss a free online game called Trapped that simulates the process women go through to get an abortion, showing how hard it can be for some in the US to access the service.
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Zynga, a once powerful online game developer and former close partner of Facebook, saw a sharp downturn after Facebook made a set of changes on how its gaming-related content appeared on the social network.
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The main purpose of the platform is to be able to chat with your team while playing an online game, but people also use it as straight-up social media, even if they're not playing.
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The company was started by former Amobee chief executive Zohar Levkovitz and cybersecurity expert Ron Porat, previously the founder of ad-blocker Shine, after Porat's own son experienced online abuse in the online game Minecraft.
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Online players of Call of Duty and a news website called The Daily Haze posted screenshots and tweets on Friday that they said indicated the swatting arose from a petty argument during an online game.
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For the New Museum show, the artist Melanie Hoff has created a new online game inspired by Ms. Cheang's garlic-trading universe, and a tricycle in the museum lobby will pay homage to the truck.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, the ruling class of North Korea — a country that Tuesday threatened to strike the U.S. with a "powerful nuclear hammer" — especially like to play a massively multiplayer online game called World of Tanks.
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Dave Franco and Emma Roberts' new film Nerve – centered around an online game of truth or dare that starts innocent but turns sinister – is coming to life right before your eyes with the Double Dog app.
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Being a massively multiplayer online game, Final Fantasy XI began every player in one of three big hub cities where they could encounter other players and kill low-level creatures in order to learn the ropes.
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TechCrunch's Kate Clark wrote about Slack's odd beginnings as a weird little online game studio called Tiny Speck and how some of the young startup's storied investors weren't thrilled about its dramatic pivot into enterprise messaging.
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Your friends may still be playing, which makes it even harder given how Destiny has introduced countless console players — for the very first time — to the unique bond-building experience of a massively multiplayer online game.
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Bossa founders Henrique Olifiers and Imre Jele were involved in the development of RuneScape, a so-called massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) with more than 250 million user accounts set up since its launch in 2001.
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The difference is that Groen isn't traveling the real world; instead, he's piloting a ship inside the online game EVE Online, venturing to bustling trade hubs and using the in-game chat to spread the news.
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On the heels of its recent restructuring, Amazon Game Studios is partnering with the Los Angeles-based Athlon Games to bring the company's free-to-play Lord of the Rings-based multiplayer online game to market.
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However, the need for a bigger war chest was evident when it lost out last year to a Chinese consortium including Alibaba's Jack Ma that offered $4.4 billion in cash to buy Caesars' online game unit.
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So it's natural, then, to cringe when you hear of a show like Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet, an Apple TV comedy about a fictional video game studio that produces a World of Warcraft-esque online game.
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On one side is "Save the World," a cooperative online game that's sort of like a mix between tower defense games, where enemies swarm into a map toward a central point you must defend, and Minecraft.
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Christian Montag, the study's lead author, said in an email on Thursday that South Korea had the world's highest rate of problematic internet use, in part because of its large technology sector and online game market.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Inspired by the success of Pokemon Go, a Belgian primary school headmaster has developed an online game for people to search for books instead of cartoon monsters, attracting tens of thousands of players in weeks.
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This raises an important question, one that has yet to be answered by any modern e-sport to date: can a game truly survive as a professional sport while its general popularity as an online game wanes?
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But it's fallen short of mixing those high-octane mechanical elements with the narrative and social scope of a true massively multiplayer online game, in the vein of World of Warcraft and other titles that inspired it.
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To enforce the growing list of requirements, an Online Game Ethics Committee launched in December under the guidance of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party to help the new gaming regulator in vetting title submissions.
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It may not be the revolutionary marriage of first-person shooter with massively multiplayer online game that we were originally promised, and the game could very well peter out again, just as it did one year ago.
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The video recently resurfaced on Reddit with the title "When a sociopath and a genuinely nice guy met in an online game," and it holds up as much now as it did when it first came out.
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Plus all of the free updates that Bungie has delivered (and continues to deliver) that improve the baseline experience, as well as the fact that it's part of a bigger, very online game and its existing community.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An online game following the journey of an elderly former sea explorer who has lost his memories has helped scientists lead a vast international dementia study and given important preliminary results about human orientation skills.
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One player, Alex Edwards, 32, from Carleton Place, Ontario, said the two had been friends since 2002, when they met in the online game and at one point in time talked three or four times a week.
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Online game communities resemble a software-as-a-service businesses, where people pay to continue playing video games over time, Owen Mahoney, CEO of Nexon, told CNBC at the Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong.
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If you already own it, or it's not your style, Amazon is honoring a few other deals from Nintendo's E3 sale: There are more deals that you can find directly through your Switch, or Nintendo's online game store.
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The best way to think of this multiplayer online game is like a version of basketball: five players on each team, a playing field of fixed and (broadly) symmetrical dimensions, and a ton of strategic and tactical depth.
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The paper's authors measured scenicness by asking volunteers to play an online game called Scenic-or-Not, which invites participants to look at photographs of neighbourhoods and rate their scenic value on a scale of one to ten.
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A key part of that is an online "game" in which players are asked to listen to excerpts from five Mozart sonata renditions played by different pianists and then supply adjectives best describing the "character" of the performances.
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But if you do want silky smooth video calls, or online game connections, or more consistent music and video-streaming, maybe stay away from Verizon (69.99 ms) and Sprint (69.59 ms), which have the most amount of latency.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An online game that allows people to deploy Twitter bots, photo-shop evidence and incite conspiracy theories has proven effective at raising their awareness of "fake news", a study from the University of Cambridge has found.
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Dozens upon dozens of them have poured into the online game over the 12 years of its life—395, in fact, according to the current count for the handy account-wide "Toy Box" Blizzard implemented with the last expansion.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Online game provider Lumosity has agreed to pay $2 million to settle allegations that it made unfounded claims that its games reduce or delay intellectual impairment that comes with age, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.
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Few details on the game are available just yet, but Square Enix says that it will be a mobile massively multiplayer online game set in the ever-growing FFXV universe, featuring "the characters, storyline, and soundtrack" of the game.
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The Miami-based company that's showcasing at the eMerge Americas conference hopes to tap into the multibillion-dollar online game market with an app that turns passing planes into dragons — and helps deploy a network of plane-watching antennas.
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The two have been connected a YouTube account featuring a Nazi insignia, online game accounts using the banner of the Azov battalion (a Ukrainian far-right militia), and had photographs of a Nazi armband and a Hitler Youth knife.
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The company's AWS division has targeted gaming as one of the verticals that it has built up on AWS and it already offers a range of back-end servers and hosting services for mobile, console, PC and online game developers.
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According to an affidavit filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, Bryan Rogers was in contact with the 14-year-old girl from Tennessee via the online game Roblox, Facebook, and an encrypted messaging application.
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Chelsea, taking the cup seriously, put out their first-choice side; City selected a team that looked like Pellegrini took too long on the management screen of FIFA during an online game and got caught out by the time limit.
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As "players" in a virtual online game, Ian (Franco) and Vee (Roberts) are paired up by their "watchers" for an innocent-turned-sinister game of truth or dare, and PEOPLE has an exclusive clip of their sexiest scene to date.
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They appear instead in a new online game created by the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), a think-tank based in New York and London that seeks to improve the management of oil, gas and mineral wealth in developing countries.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Online game developer Boyaa Interactive International Ltd said its chairman is being investigated by judicial authorities in China, although details of the probe were not yet known - sending its shares sliding 20 percent to a record low.
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The Duke of Sussex isn't a fan of the massively popular online game Fortnite, with the British royal going as far as to call for a ban of the game at an event at a West London YMCA on Thursday.
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Manhattan isn't as safe or fantastic as Destiny's sci-fi setting Like Activision's Destiny, from which it takes constant inspiration, The Division is a cross between a traditional shooter and an expansive online game with hundreds of thousands of players.
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To escape the suffocating sense of failure, Samuel spends 40 hours a week playing the role of Dodger the Elven Thief in an online game called World of Elfscape, where he goes on dragon- and orc-slaying quests with his guild.
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LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) - An online game that allows people to deploy Twitter bots, photo-shop evidence and incite conspiracy theories has proven effective at raising their awareness of "fake news", a study from the University of Cambridge has found.
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Adam Richman, who is also producing a documentary about Strat-O-Matic, said the company was spending more on marketing for the new version, while simultaneously redesigning its traditional computer and online game, which has been rebranded as Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365.
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KFC wanted to focus on friendships rather than family over Christmas, so invited people to take part in a digital video "friendship bucket test," rewarding them with pieces of chicken when they got questions about their friends correct, with a supporting online game.
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Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson: Clinton presidency 'may well end up in impeachment' CNN's Political Prediction Market is an online game administered by the company Pivit, which functions like an online market and allows Internet users to predict the outcome of the 2016 election.
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In Dead Pixels, we follow a group of friends who pass the majority of their time together on the green pastures of the online game Kingdom Scroll — a fictional RPG that just happens to look a whole lot like World of Warcraft.
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Epic, the maker of the insanely popular, cross-platform third-person shooter online game Fortnite, has 'fessed up to a gameplay misstep when it dropped a super powerful new weapon into the battle royale arena earlier this month — triggering a major fan backlash.
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In a recognition of the popularity of e-sports on college campuses, most Big Ten universities will field teams in the multiplayer online game League of Legends and compete in a style resembling conference play, in a partnership with the Big Ten Network.
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Leading Dutch virologist Albert Osterhaus, who designed The Great Flu, an online game designed to raise awareness of the 2009 swine flu outbreak, told The Oklahoman at the time: "It is actually what is happening now, what is happening in the real world."
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They included the Lego Dimensions box set, which puts together characters from "Lord of the Rings", "Batman" and the Lego movie, allowing kids to build portals and vehicles which are transferred to an online game by placing the pieces on an electronic "toy pad".
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Any kind of VR universe would still employ the common principles of any online game, where the bulk of the content is downloaded onto the local machine, and the only data being sent back and forth is player position and interactions with the world.
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The original Destiny, which could cost upwards of $150 when you factor in expansions and other add-on content, was a fascinating attempt at trying to blend the benefits of a massively multiplayer online game with the nuts and bolts of a first-person shooter.
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Chinese online game lets players fight Japan over disputed islands In mid-2014, Japanese and Chinese jets had a tense standoff in a region where both zones overlap, with Japan's Defense Minister saying the planes at one point came within 30 feet of each other.
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All that stuff is about making the internet run properly — after all, a packet containing the next frame of your streaming movie or online game needs to be delivered in very timely fashion, while email or a Facebook post can take its time (relatively speaking).
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Police in Kansas have arrested a man in connection with the fatal shooting of another by a police officer who was lured to the home by a prank emergency call that may have been related to a dispute over the online game Call of Duty.
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With so much confusing messaging around the sequel, Ubisoft will likely provide a clearer picture of just what Beyond Good & Evil 2 is, and why fans of the original should be interested in a massively multiplayer online game that's set in the same universe.
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Clinton's odds for winning the race are at 75% compared to Trump's at 93%, according to the market, an online game administered by the company Pivit, which functions like an online market and allows Internet users to predict the outcome of the 2016 election.
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The ultimate prediction marketplace for the races and issues that matter most CNN's Political Prediction Market is an online game administered by a company called Pivit that functions like an online market and allows Internet users to predict the outcome of the 2016 election.
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In unfolding levels of the online game, players are shown how girls are lured to cities by traffickers who promise good jobs, but then sell them into slavery as domestic workers, to work in small manufacturing units, farming or into sexual slavery in brothels.
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The type of game that we decided to spend our time building, originally with Ingress and now with Pokémon Go, the choice was very deliberate to build something that people in the gaming industry refer to as an MMO, or massively multiplayer online game.
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Tactical Technology educates women's rights advocates on online safety In a scene that might have been plucked straight out of Grand Theft Auto, the online game BREAKAWAY culminates with a girl being abducted, forced into a locker and left there after continual bullying and abuse.
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We kept an online game going concurrently with the ones we played in person, and she started emailing multiple times a day, sometimes directly urging me to take my turn, and other times dropping a hint by making a reference to our game in progress.
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Earlier this summer, China's internet giant Tencent began limiting the time that people under 18 were allowed to play the popular online game Honor of Kings to an hour a day for those under 12, and two hours for those age 12 to 18.
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For instance: In early 2019, Valve, the parent company of the online game platform Steam, allowed a game called Rape Day, in which the object of the "game" was to rape women, to stay up in its store for days before finally removing it.
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And which, thanks to Supreme and its many direct and indirect imitators, has essentially been reframed as an online game in which winners win garments and also the right to profit off those garments by selling them to those who are bad at the game.
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It's designed for PC players, and allows multiple users to link their online game accounts for titles like League of Legends and World of Warcraft to a central hub where they can chat via text, host voice calls, and now conduct live video calls as well.
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This updated agreement marks the most substantial change to Steam's financial terms in the store's 15-year history, and it seems clearly designed to entice more developers to stick around, instead of self-releasing games or going with the growing number of competing online game distributors.
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That online game never went anywhere, but he recycled his extensive notes and put them to work as the basis for an online post-to-play RPG and an in-person game that drew in the likes of George R.R. Martin and his later collaborator, Daniel Abraham.
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Microsoft first launched Teams about two years ago, as a clear answer to the popularity of Slack — which first launched in 2014 as the spin-out from a failed online game called "Glitch," but which quickly attracted the attention of top investors and millions of users.
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Still reeling from her mother's death from cancer, Analee Echevarria would rather inhabit her favorite online game as Kiri the night elf hunter than deal with her father's impending nuptials to a lifestyle coach and yogi, or watch her ex-best friend making out with her boyfriend.
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"Think about pro-social things you can do for them that distinctly goes against that anxiety voice," says Asnaani, like making a photo album for grandma, playing an online game with your dad, or reading the same book as your aunt and agreeing to discuss it together.
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A 25-year-old gamer from LA named Tyler Barriss allegedly called Wichita, Kansas police and told them there was a hostage situation after getting in a disagreement with another player in an online game of Call of Duty: WWII, a realistic first-person shooter video game.
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Co-founder Ernestine Fu hopes that Blackstorm Labs, the makers of a bullet hell-ish fantasy shooter called EverWing, has figured out how to tap into that real-time co-operative experience that you might find in a massive online game like World of Warcraft within Facebook Messenger.
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GeForce Now works with Steam and Green Man Gaming, the two largest online game stores, and from Gizmodo's own hands on (in a super controlled environment) it appears to run pretty damn well, playing Witcher 3 and Rise of the Tomb Raider on two Macs with zero hiccups.
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But the holistic Fortnite experience is fast resembling something closer to a massively multiplayer online game, with a constantly updated narrative, a persistent world that changes all at once for every player, and a fan base with the means to customize and outfit an avatar in increasingly sophisticated ways.
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With a whopping 1,666,642 ballots cast in a fantasy online Game of Thrones election, conducted over the past four weeks by HBO, the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch and current "King in the North" has once again been handed a political title he didn't really ask for.
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In July, Justice Minister Kim Hyun-woong offered a rare public apology after a senior prosecutor, Jin Kyung-joon, was arrested on charges of taking millions of dollars in bribes from the owner of an online game company, deepening public suspicions about corruption among high-ranking law enforcement officials.
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SEOUL, South Korea — A top South Korean prosecutor was arrested on Sunday on charges of taking millions of dollars in bribes from the owner of Nexon, a leading online game maker, in a case that the country's news media has portrayed as the epitome of corruption among its elite.
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Then we move to Washington state at a rehab center where internet addiction specialist Hilarie Cash recounts a true story about a couple in South Korea so obsessed with an online game about taking care of a little girl that their actual baby starved to death in neglect.
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A 2010 patent on a system of syncing the rewards earned by online-game characters with those earned by their virtual steeds, robots and pets was obvious in light of the 2003 handbook for the role-playing dice game "Dungeons & Dragons," a federal appeals court held on Tuesday.
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After updating as many Wikipedia photos as he could with his Nikon D7000 and a D7100 DSLR and a homemade studio table, Amos shifted focus in 2014 to his own ambitious project: a high-resolution photo archive of video game consoles for the public domain called the Vanamo Online Game Museum.
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Take, for example, the Marriott corporation, which designed an online game in the style of Farmville or The Sims; in it, players are faced with the challenges of running a hotel restaurant — everything from choosing employees to shopping for ingredients and getting meal tickets out to the dining room quickly.
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On May 14, 2017 an episode of the satirical Italian TV program Le Iene (or "Reservoir Dogs" in English) aired a report dedicated to the 'Blue Whale game' (or 'challenge'), a type of online game that came to life in different forums and groups on VKontakte, the most popular social network in Russia.
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Returning to Smith + Crown, skirting usual rules concerning fundraising is nearly normal in the realm of ICOs — at least partially explaining why guard rails in crypto offerings may remain a homegrown affair: Most ICOs today are marketed as 'software presale tokens' akin to giving early access to an online game to early supporters.
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Per the Wichita Eagle, court documents have now publicly revealed at least two other persons of interest in the case:Investigators learned that Shane Gaskill, who lives in Wichita, was involved in an online video game with other people when he accidentally shot and killed one of his teammates in the online game.
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Developer Bethesda has long been known for putting out games that are famously buggy, but Fallout 76 presents a different set of problems since it's an online game where players compete with each other, and the competition is not exactly fair when players can easily exploit bugs to get a winning edge over other players.
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It's not hard to imagine the amazing experiences a massively multiplayer online game could offer with this type of backend infrastructure, and the types of gameplay enabled when simulated, immersive worlds at the scale of Fortnite's island can be changed and manipulated in real time without requiring you stop the software and install an update.
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The company's SpatialOS platform allows single instances of an online game to run across multiple servers, essentially stitching a world together with each server keeping an eye on the other, allowing for hundreds of users to see each other and their in-game actions translated in a persistent way on systems across the globe.
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I could not detect any noticeable input lag, and there was no discernible on-screen effects indicating the visuals were being streamed from a cloud server to the Pixelbook, and then from the Pixelbook to the Samsung TV. Granted, I wasn't playing an online game, so there's no telling what types of latency issues you might run into there.
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Modern teenagers are vulnerable to forms of exploitation that didn't exist a few decades ago — having their online videos repurposed for malevolent ends, being arrested for "creating child pornography" by taking naked selfies, having their social-media photos repurposed to generate fake revenge porn, being shot by a SWAT team because of an argument in an online game.
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A NeoGAF user translated the new regulations for everyone and shared the relevant passages: 2.6 ...Online game publishers shall promptly publicly announce information about the name, property, content, quantity, and draw/forge probability of all virtual items and services that can be drawn/forge on the official website or a dedicated draw probability webpage of the game.
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Sen. Josh HawleyJoshua (Josh) David HawleyRecessions happen when presidents overlook key problems Government regulation of social media would kill the internet — and free speech Juan Williams: We need a backlash against Big Tech MORE (R-Mo.) on Wednesday announced that he will introduce legislation banning "manipulative" online game features he says can push children to become addicted to technology.
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The rules also require video game users to register for online gaming accounts using their real names alongside valid identification, call for strengthening oversight in the gaming industry, suggest revisiting the game rating systems and better adjusting them to appropriate age groups, and propose better guidelines for parents on how to manage their children's online game consumption.
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Playing the online game For the Whole Foods acquisition to be truly successful for Amazon, it needs to find a way to take grocery e-commerce mainstream as it's done with so many other categories, from books to electronics to the odds and ends that make up the tens of millions of items available on its website.
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And not just an escape from current events and the news cycle, or from work and daily drudgery, but an escape from the world of online game culture that threatens to swallow up a title like Tetris Effect and render it irrelevant in mere days or weeks, as is prone to happen to games not featuring firearms or cinematic production values.
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This all seems like table stacks for an online game like World of Warcraft that has in-game managers for all these things, but the goal of all this is to have all this functionality baked inside a bot that can handle complex tasks to keep the tedium away from a player and get their attention when something fun is available.
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Up until I slipped on the headset for a few rounds of RIGS last night, day one of the game's public availability, I'd never truly felt sick when plugged into VR—but I managed only the tutorial, one offline match and half an online game before having to remove myself from it completely (and I took a couple of breathers before then).
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Now 34, Samuel is a frustrated English professor at a small university near Chicago who spends his free time playing a World of Warcraft-like online game called World of Elfscape; pining after his childhood love, Bethany; defending himself against the plagiarizing student who wants him fired; and procrastinating on a novel he scored a big advance for a decade ago on the promise of a story published in a prestigious magazine.
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Even when we look at online games, the gaming companies that primarily thrived in the '90s and the early 2000s are very different than those that really struggled in the online world or rather thrived in the online world And then even we have an example today of Fortnite, which is a very different conception of an online game that frankly the Activision Blizzards of the world — themselves leaders in early online gaming — are struggling to replicate.
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