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A new study has said the hostility inflicted on women in many online environments is little more than a form of bullying. ‘Insights into Sexism: Male Status and Performance Moderates Female-Directed Hostile and Amicable Behaviour’ by Michael Kasumovic and Jeffrey Kuznekoff found that women receive up to ten times as …
Read More »All League of Legends ranked matches taken offline after huge bug discovered
A game-wide bug has forced Riot to temporarily disable ranked League of Legends matches as it works to fix the issue. Players initially began to notice something curious with the hero Riven, with the champion able to cast the ‘Recall’ spell – which teleports the player character back to the …
Read More »First Amazon Prime Day video game deals appear
Ahead of Amazon’s members-only Prime Day sale tomorrow, the promotion’s first video game offers have started to appear. For those not in the know, Prime Day is much like Amazon’s highly popular Black Friday sales – except you have to be subscribed to the retail giant’s 79/year service (which counts …
Read More »DayZ is losing players as full release remains a distant prospect
With an exist from Steam Early Access still a long way off, players seem to be abandoning online zombie game DayZ. The game came form nowhere to emerge as the big success of Christmas 2013 – despite being incomplete and receiving zero marketing. However, while it went on to sell …
Read More »ASA ponders investigation of three online games
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has referred three unnamed online games to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The CMA says that it is concerned that these games may breach the Advertising Codes and consumer law by directly encouraging children to buy, or ask their parents to buy, extra game …
Read More »New Need for Speed requires online connection
EA’s Need for Speed reboot will require an online connection to play. That’s according to the game’s official Twitter account, who responded to a fan’s query about online yesterday (below). EA announced its new Need for Speed title last week, saying that it was to be a reboot of the …
Read More »Move over Elder Scrolls: Tera Online is now the biggest MMO of all time on Steam
In news that might surprise many, the biggest MMO on PC platform Steam isn’t Final Fantasy XIV, EVE Online or The Elder Scrolls Online. Instead, it’s relative newcomer Tera Online, a Korean free-to-play effort which only launched on the Steam store earlier this month, on May 5th. Tera’s developer En …
Read More »Console version of Elder Scrolls Online won’t be locked out of pre-owned market
UPDATE: Bethesda has confirmed that no CD key will be required for the console version of the game. "The physical console version of The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited does not require a one-time game code, as with any other boxed PS4/Xbox One game only the game disc is needed …
Read More »2K Sports turns NBA 2K14 back on, extends online support to legacy titles
Players of 2K14 are now once again able to access their single-player careers. Yesterday MCV reported that 2K’s activation of the game’s online servers had a particularly nasty side-effect – players found themselves unable to access their offline career progress as the way the game was built meant that the …
Read More »PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live subscriptions added to consumer price index
Online game subscriptions like PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live will now be used to calculate the impact of inflation. As spotted by Eurogamer, these schemes have been added into the UK Government’s consumer price index (CPI), the list of goods and services used to measure inflation. PlayStation Plus and Xbox …
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