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Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB excerpt — Pat Vance: Doing something good…

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 23, 2020
12 min

GamesBeat is publishing this exclusive excerpt of Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB. Previous chapters can be found here. To help commemorate its 25th...

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Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB excerpt – “Evolution, Expansion, and Enforcement”

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 13, 2020
6 min

GamesBeat is publishing this exclusive excerpt of Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB. Previous chapters can be found here. To help commemorate its 25th...

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6 min

The DeanBeat: 13 humble predictions for gaming in 2020

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 3, 2020
14 min

I’ve never been good at making predictions about the game industry, but I enjoy it. I figure if I make enough, some of them...

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14 min

Twitch and its chat are strong targets for affiliate marketing.

Online gaming will be a goldmine for affiliate marketing

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 27, 2019
5 min

The world of affiliate marketing offers diverse ways to make money online. Whether through email marketing, social media sponsorships, website banners, or by creating...

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5 min

Congress is focusing on video games — how should the industry react?

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 4, 2019
4 min

At any major sporting event, one could easily recognize the playful Fortnite dance moves performed and displayed on the jumbo screen “dance cam.” With...

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4 min

The FTC saunters into the loot box fight

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 29, 2018
4 min

This time 12 months ago, loot boxes were the biggest story in the video game business . But now, even though they are still in...

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4 min

DraftKings and FanDuel drop fantasy sports merger after FTC pressure

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 13, 2017
2 min

(Reuters) — Daily fantasy sports companies FanDuel and DraftKings scrapped a plan to merge on Thursday following a legal challenge by U.S. antitrust enforcers. The U.S....

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2 min

FTC moves to block DraftKings and FanDuel fantasy sports merger

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 19, 2017
2 min

The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general in California and the District of Columbia said they will file a complaint to block the merger...

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2 min

PewDiePie denies wrongdoing in Warner Bros.-YouTube game scandal

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 13, 2016
3 min

As the internet changes the way influential people speak to their audiences, the Federal Trade Commission in the United States is slowly enforcing its...

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3 min

Warner Brothers settles FTC charges over promotional payments to livestreamers like PewDiePie

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 11, 2016
2 min

In a push to market its The Lord of the Rings-based Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor,” Warner Brothers failed to adequately disclose that it had paid...

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2 min