British game publisher 505 Games announced today that it will publish Adr1ft, a sci-fi game that is being built by Three One Zero, the game studio created by former Microsoft developer Adam Orth.
Former Microsoft executive Adam Orth spoke out against Internet toxicity at GDC 2014.
Orth became widely known a year ago when he got into a Twitter brawl over comments he made about always-connected consoles. It started with jokes under the hashtag #dealwithit, but it devolved into an Internet kerfuffle that led to Orth’s departure from Microsoft. He gave a moving talk about “Internet toxicity,” or the big problem of mob rule on the internet, at the recent Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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