Grow a Garden, a hit game on Roblox, has spawned a market where in-game items are sold for real money on sites like eBay, potentially violating Roblox's ToS
and spawned a market for virtual crops and livestock that appears to violate company rules https://www.bloomberg.com/... Cecilia D'Anastasio / @cecianasta : New: Record-breaking Roblox game Grow A Gar...
A profile of Genshin Impact creator HoYoverse, which is exploring new game genres as its titles begin to cannibalize each other and its revenue declined in 2024
HoYoverse plots a future path to reach further than its anime roots — For decades, Chinese video games and American gamers just didn't mix. Bluesky: @jaysheen . X: @zhugeex , @cecianasta , and @ceci...
Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down, replaced by Humam Sakhnini effective April 28; Citron will stay on the board and become a CEO advisor
to help friends talk while playing games—has grown into something far bigger than I ever imagined. I'll be transitioning to a new role as Board Member and Advisor, and continuing to support Discord t...
More than half a dozen celebrity video game streamers returned exclusively to Twitch in 2024, after their multimillion-dollar YouTube and Kick contracts expired
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg : X: @cecianasta X: Cecilia D'Anastasio / @cecianasta : New: Streamers are returning en masse to Twitch after 7 and 8-figure content deals dried up. Twitch and YouTube...
Analysis: Google and Bing show deepfake porn images of female celebrities atop search results for their names plus “deepfakes”, “fake nudes”, and other terms
Google and other search engines include nonconsensual deepfake porn in top image search results alongside tools … X: @cecianasta , @cecianasta , and @benjamingoggin X: Cecilia D'Anastasio / @cecianast...
A look at Take-Two's $12B Zynga deal in 2022, just as casual games peaked post pandemic, Apple introduced ATT, and the mobile game market headed into a downturn
Video-game giant's push into smartphone titles was expensive and late. — Excitement over the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto VI … Bluesky: @janety.bsky.social . X: @cecianasta , @technology , @...
Ex-FaZe Clan staff describe mismanagement at the creator collective as its valuation falls from $725M during its 2022 SPAC merger to ~$15M; FaZe fired its CEO
The board fired CEO Lee Trink following a steep decline in the shares — Three months after its July 2022 debut on the Nasdaq … X: @cecianasta , @cecianasta , @joonian , @celineorelse , @mattjmcd , @...
A look at Starfield, a game by Microsoft's Bethesda with 1,000 explorable planets, set for September 6 after a 10-month delay, as Microsoft needs an Xbox hit
Alright everybody, strap yourselves in. This is gonna be a bumpy ride. Jordan Middler / Video Games Chronicle : Review: Starfield is the ultimate Bethesda game Matt Miller / Game Informer : Starfield...
Study: in May 2023, ~150K nonconsensual porn deepfakes, with 3.8B total views, appeared on 30 sites, up 9x since 2019, aided by services from big tech companies
To stay up and running, deepfake creators rely on products and services from Google, Apple, Amazon, CloudFlare and Microsoft X: @daveyalba , @cecianasta , and @ajmartinny X: Davey Alba / @daveyalba : ...
Several current and former Roblox employees say Roblox is not doing enough to address concerns about diversity and the marginalization of women and minorities
Current and former employees say Roblox's efforts have not gone far enough to address their concerns Twitter: @cecianasta Twitter: Cecilia D'Anastasio / @cecianasta : NEW: Women describe sexism and ra...