Using community platforms to build your audience
This article is part of GamesBeat’s special issue, Gaming communities: Making connections and fighting toxicity. Building a strong community is essential for the long term...
Alexis Ohanian and Polygon will invest $200M in decentralized social media
Polygon and Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six will invest $200 million in social media projects that take advantage of blockchain technologies. The partners will...
Newzoo will extract analytics insights from Reddit’s gamers
Game and esports market researcher Newzoo has teamed up with social network Reddit to extract details on consumer engagement with video games. It’s an...
The digital displacement of sports fandom
According to the “Navigating the next generation fan: How football is social” report, 64 percent of young sports fans find social-based coverage more engaging...
Facebook’s esports dreams face the privacy PR nightmare
It’s no secret that Facebook’s mishandling of consumer data has landed it in hot water. This forced the social-media behemoth’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg a...
Game Boy emulator Gearboy has an Oculus Go port
Nintendo’s Game Boy was one of the first all-in-one portable gaming systems in the world, and now you can play its huge line-up of...
Redditors will collaborate to move Anki’s Cozmo robot through rooms
Robot marketing has evolved. Today, Anki’s Cozmo robot will participate in a livestream that turns all of the social networking site Reddit into a...
Twitch and Reddit partner for live AMA experience at SXSW
Twitch and Reddit have partnered to create a four-day live Ask Me Anything experience at the social event SXSW in Austin, Texas. The ‘Twitch X...
Watching live streams of people coding is now officially a thing
This latest unlikely phenomenon comes on the heels of Twitch's big success in livestreaming people playing video games.
With Xbox One's ReddX app, you can upvote Reddit cat photos while playing Titanfall
The ReddX app is available now on Xbox One.