Jobs of the week: 6 awesome gaming companies that were founded by women
Despite having a reputation for being a male-dominated industry, the world of gaming is full of brilliant female leaders who are taking charge, innovating...
Building a game that keeps players engaged for years — and deserves to be subscribed to
Presented by Xsolla The number of at-home gamers rose to new levels during the quarantine. As we all reset how we live and operate,...
Facebook gamifies data collection to boost conversational AI
Facebook once piloted a text-based fantasy role-playing game to improve the conversational models powering things like its chatbots and smart speakers. In a preprint...
Facebook is killing Oculus accounts, starting in October
Immediately after Facebook acquired Oculus VR in 2014, some developers expressed concern that the social media giant would fully absorb the pioneering virtual reality company,...
Apple’s response to Epic threatens the future of VR, AR, TV, and films
Epic’s lawsuit against Apple was already monumental when it solely focused on the iOS App Store, a walled garden that has grown to an...
In-app ads are not the Dark Side
This article is part of a Gaming Insights series paid for by Facebook. Alongside the disruptions of 2020, gamers play on. And they continue...
Fortnite’s ‘safety and fairness’ ban actually hurts users and developers
When the news broke yesterday that Apple and Google banned Epic’s super-popular game Fortnite from their app stores, most people focused on the bans...
An Apple One services bundle is pointless if consumers only save $2-$5
Imagine millions of Apple customers holding out on the services introduced last year — Apple Arcade, News+, and TV+ — not out of lack...
UC Berkeley’s Niloufar Salehi on restorative justice in social media
Victims of stalking, harassment, hate, election interference, and other abuses have for years argued that we need to rethink the way social media functions....
Apple’s EU antitrust case targets App Store limits on Microsoft and Facebook gaming apps
(Reuters) – Facebook and Microsoft’s grievances over how their gaming apps appear on Apple’s App Store may feed into an EU investigation into the...