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Activision's researchers reckon skill-based matchmaking is better for everyone
Eurogamer· 21 minutes agoActivision has published a 25-page white paper exploring the impact of skill-based matchmaking...
Is it time to dump Microsoft stock as 500 World of Warcraft employees vote to unionize? Here's what...
Moneywise via Yahoo Finance Canada· 4 hours agoMicrosoft is uncharacteristically union-friendly, but a Princeton study found new unionization is...
Video game actors are on strike. Here's what that means
Los Angeles Times· 5 hours agoUnion leaders took the step after they could not reach an agreement on artificial intelligence terms...
Video game makers see actors as AI ‘data,’ says union on strike
Digital Journal· 13 hours agoArtificial intelligence was key to last year’s Hollywood strikes, and it has now sparked a second...
Activision secretly experimented on 50% of Call of Duty players by 'decreasing' skill-based...
PC Gamer· 14 hours agoNotably, the free-to-play CoD alternative XDefiant has no SBMM. Activision has historically stayed...
Overwatch 2 is testing a 6v6 return, but that alone won't fix the game's biggest problem
Windows Central· 18 hours agoAfter recently promising to do so on social media, Overwatch 2 developer Blizzard Entertainment has...
SAG-AFTRA back on strike over AI, this time in video games
The Register· 18 hours agoActors are back on strike for an entirely unsurprising reason: Studios aren't willing to give video game actors enough protection from artificial intelligence. Video game performers with the ...
Voice Actors Say Major Video Game Companies’ “Woefully Insufficient” AI Proposals Led To Strike,...
Deadline via Yahoo Canada News· 19 hours agoJust a few hours into their strike against the major video game companies, SAG-AFTRA made some noise...
Two billionaire Harris donors hope she will fire FTC Chair Lina Khan
AOL· 19 hours agoBillionaire Democratic donors Barry Diller and Reid Hoffman said in interviews this week they hope Kamala Harris will replace Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan if she becomes U.S. president ...
Video game performers are becoming Hollywood stars in their own right − and are on strike to be paid...
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 19 hours agoA key sticking point appears to involve the AI protections offered to performers. SAG-AFTRA charges...