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Blizzard starts drive to recruit more women and ethnic minorities

Blizzard starts drive to recruit more women and ethnic minorities

[ad_1] The company behind games like World of Warcraft and Overwatch has started a drive to recruit more women and ethnic minorities. The information is in a leaked internal email from Blizzard’s CEO, seen by the website Kotako. It claims 21% of Blizzard’s employees are women, and although that’s similar to the rest of the gaming industry, it says it wants to do better. Newsbeat has contacted the…

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League of Legends Pro Blames "Sensual Pleasures" For Poor Game Performance

League of Legends Pro Blames "Sensual Pleasures" For Poor Game Performance

[ad_1] Compete reports on the case of Li ‘Vaisili’ Wei Jun, a professional player that has made $27,563 in League of Legends in his career, has recently had a downturn in his performance. That happens to professionals in all sports, usually they just talk about motivation and wanting it more and move on. When asked about being moved to the bench in week six of the simply named League of Legends…

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Snapchat registered with Russian regulator 'unknowingly'

[ad_1] Image copyright Reuters Image caption Snapchat has been registered with a Russian regulator Snapchat’s parent company says the US messaging app has been registered with Russia’s technology regulator without its knowledge. Snap told the BBC that the Roskomnadzor agency had unilaterally put it on its register of information distributors. The move means Snapchat will be required to keep all…

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Replay – Contra: Shattered Soldier

Replay – Contra: Shattered Soldier

[ad_1] Let me warn you right now – we don’t spend a lot of time talking about Contra: Shattered Soldier in this episode. It’s a great game and one that I have fond memories of playing when it released in 2002, but there were just too many distractions too ignore. We knew things were going to be different when the Replay machine started “calibrating” in the opening moments. To cover some of the…

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US firm reveals gun-toting drone that can fire in mid-air

US firm reveals gun-toting drone that can fire in mid-air

[ad_1] Image copyright Duke Robotics Image caption A US firm has armed a drone with a machine-gun and a grenade launcher in order to fight terrorism A US technology firm has developed a drone that is able to aim and fire at enemies while flying in mid-air. The Tikad drone, developed by Duke Robotics, is armed with a machine-gun and a grenade launcher. The gun can be fired only by remote control,…

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Atlas Rises In No Man’s Sky, Bringing New Story And Limited Cooperative Play

Atlas Rises In No Man’s Sky, Bringing New Story And Limited Cooperative Play

[ad_1] No Man’s Sky is in for big changes. With Update 1.3, which has gone live today, Hello Games is introducing a wide array of improvements and additions to the game. The release comes after a tease earlier this week.  For many players, the most significant feature will be 30 hours of new story content, including a new storyline involving a mysterious alien species of travelers. We’re also…

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China's WeChat, Weibo and Baidu under investigation

China's WeChat, Weibo and Baidu under investigation

[ad_1] Image copyright Reuters China says it is investigating its largest social media platforms – Weibo, WeChat and Baidu Tieba – for alleged violations of cyber security laws. The Cyberspace Administration said people had been using the three platforms to spread terror-related material, rumours and obscenities. The breaches “jeopardised national security,” the administration said. China’s…

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GI Show – Pokémon Trip, Call Of Duty: WWII Details, 8-4 Play Interview

GI Show – Pokémon Trip, Call Of Duty: WWII Details, 8-4 Play Interview

[ad_1] Welcome to The Game Informer Show podcast! We have an exciting show this week filled with a lot of new information and a lot of deep dives. First up, Kyle Hilliard and Ben Hanson talk about their trip to Game Freak in Tokyo to meet the developers behind Pokémon and gain a new understanding of where that series began and where it’s going with the upcoming game for the Nintendo Switch. Then…

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Snap shares plunge 14% as losses mount

Snap shares plunge 14% as losses mount

[ad_1] Image copyright Getty Images Snap shares plunged 14% on Thursday after the social media firm reported more than $400m (£310m) in quarterly losses and fewer than expected users. The share price fall extended a decline that started almost immediately after Snapchat started trading on the stock market this spring. The firm reported 173 million daily users, up 4% on the prior quarter. But the…

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Is your encrypted USB drive secure?

Is your encrypted USB drive secure?

[ad_1] How can you be sure the “secure” USB drive you’re using is really secure and the data you store on it can’t be extracted? That’s exactly the question Google’s security researchers Ellie Bursztein, Jean-Michel Picod, and Rémi Audebert addressed in their talk, “Attacking encrypted USB keys the hard(ware) way,” at the recent Black Hat USA 2017. Researchers say that at present, secure USB…

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Overwatch League strikes London deal

Overwatch League strikes London deal

[ad_1] Image copyright Activision Blizzard Image caption Overwatch deliberately contains little gore to aid its appeal to younger audiences The American founder of a leading e-sports business has become the first owner of a European squad in the forthcoming Overwatch League. Jack Etienne, chief executive of Los Angeles-based Cloud9, has bought the rights to field a London team in the sci-fi video…

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Here's How Game Freak Designs Pokémon Creatures

Here's How Game Freak Designs Pokémon Creatures

[ad_1] Between all the different Pokémon games that have released over the last 20 years, taking into account Mega Evolutions and new wrinkles like the Alola forms in Sun and Moon, there are 802 Pokémon. The creatures vary in design to an incredible degree, covering strange influences like keys and piles of garbage to less surprising designs based on cute animals like cats and koalas. While…

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FaceApp launches 'blackface' feature, then deletes it after social backlash

FaceApp launches 'blackface' feature, then deletes it after social backlash

[ad_1] FaceApp has removed a feature which changed people’s ethnicity in selfies less than 24 hours after updating it. The app, which launched in early 2017, changes photos with filters to make users look older, younger or swap gender. But its newest feature was criticised for being racist within minutes of alerting users. It allowed people to change their faces to look more black, Asian, Indian…

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Fortnite Creative Director Talks Five-Year Plan, Possibility Of Switch Version

Fortnite Creative Director Talks Five-Year Plan, Possibility Of Switch Version

[ad_1] Epic Games’ Darren Sugg answers our burning questions about Fortnite as we play through a mission together. Why is it called a closed beta if it’s being sold in stores for a price? Why should people play it now if it will be free-to-play later? What kind of content roadmap is Epic planning? Will it be weekly? Monthly? Sugg doesn’t hold back from answering any of these questions, and offers…

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Facebook introduces new video service

Facebook introduces new video service

[ad_1] Image copyright Getty Images Social media giant Facebook has made a move into dedicated video, pitting it against YouTube and TV networks. Users will soon see a new Watch tab that will offer a range of shows, some of which have been funded by the social network Watch will be personalised so that users can discover new shows, based on what their friends are watching. Viewers will also be…

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Super Meat Boy And Mutant Mudds Deluxe Announced For Nintendo Switch

Super Meat Boy And Mutant Mudds Deluxe Announced For Nintendo Switch

[ad_1] Two indie platformers, Mutant Mudds and Super Meat Boy, were announced for the Switch today over Twitter. First, Team Meat, the anagram lover’s developer of Super Meat Boy, revealed this picture of Super Meat Boy running on the Switch. Yesterday, the account also teased a retail version of the game on Switch coming from Nicalis. Unfortunately, due to a dispute with the game’s original…

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Fake Google firm shut down after probe

Fake Google firm shut down after probe

[ad_1] Image copyright Google Image caption Google My Business is a free service that helps firms control how they appear in search results A Manchester-based company that pretended it was linked to Google has been closed following an investigation by the UK’s Insolvency Service. The agency said Movette had used “deceptive methods” to bill clients for the use of Google My Business – a free…