New Pokémon Go bot ‘automates the entire game’
Insta-PokéGo, a new bot that enables you to cheat at Pokémon Go, launched Wednesday. The bot comes from a group of current and former Dropbox engineers, according...
Why Pokémon Go could be a groundbreaking model for chatbots
This year has been fondly dubbed the year of the bot by tech leaders, investors, and journalists. However, while many have been following the...
Dragon Islands is a role-playing game you can play entirely in Telegram
Chatbots are helping one of the most old-school kinds of gaming to make a comeback. Dragon Islands is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game....
Germany’s supreme court ruling on online games and bots could affect entire EU
Computer games are a rising business branch, and in the scope of established law, a rather new one. Lawmakers haven’t given much thought about...
Dojo Madness bags $4.5M for its League of Legends coaching app
Dojo Madness has raised $4.5 million to launch LOLSumo, a real-time coach that helps League of Legends gamers improve their esports skills. Berlin-based Dojo Madness wants...
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s first victory: 6M bot messages on Facebook
If you stand between people and a Call of Duty reveal, you’ll suddenly become popular (even if you’re a bot). To promote the reveal...
The mystery of why Pretty Pet Salon was banned from the App Store and then returned
On Jan. 12, 2012, Pretty Pet Salon mysteriously disappeared from the App Store and then returned again in a different form at the end of March. Why this happened is an interesting tale.
Apple’s crackdown on app-ranking manipulation: Confused developers caught in the dragnet
In the battle between Apple’s police and the developers who cheat to boost their rankings, some innocent startups are finding themselves banned from the marketplace.