The Indonesian government is blocking traffic to major websites and platforms including Steam, Epic Games Store, and Origin. The fourth-largest country in the world is blocking internet traffic to websites like Paypal and platforms like the online storefronts for Steam, Epic Games Store, and EA’s Origin. The move comes as the government strictly enforces censorship. … Read more
The latest quarterly report shows that Facebook’s parent company Meta has lost tens of billions on VR. A decline in daily active users earlier this year is not the only problem facing Facebook parent company Meta these days. The company is bleeding money when it comes to its virtual reality business. As you may recall, … Read more
Celebrate the holidays collecting new magical ingredients for the wizarding world’s iconic Christmas-themed dishes. Zynga has had a busy week! Following the Star Wars Hunters gameplay trailer earlier this week, they are now announcing to all players of their match-3 game, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells, that they can now enjoy the new “Fantastic Feasts” … Read more
The ESA has announced the social media and video platforms where you can catch this year’s official E3 2021 broadcast. E3 is partnering with Facebook, Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, Reddit, and more. In collaboration with E3, each live streaming and video content service will broadcast E3 events and activities. Plus, each social media site will … Read more
Studio Ghibli just launched its first-ever official English-language social media channels on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The channels are intended to reach the studio’s North American fans. GKIDS is extending its long-term relationship with Studio Ghibli and will manage the new social media channels. You can find them at: Twitter: twitter.com/GhibliUSA Instagram: instagram.com/GhibliUSA/ Facebook: facebook.com/GhibliUSA Through the new … Read more
Facebook has acquired Ready at Dawn, the studio behind The Order: 1886 and Lone Echo. “As part of the Oculus Studios team, Ready At Dawn will continue creating memorable, immersive, and innovative VR content for gamers around the world as an independently-operated studio,” Facebook’s Mike Verdu said in a press release. This is Facebook’s latest … Read more
Microsoft is shutting down its Mixer streaming platform next month. It plans to move existing users over to Facebook Gaming in a deal that is also expected to involve xCloud on Facebook. Mixer is Microsoft’s Twitch and YouTube competitor. But those larger streaming players – which are owned by Amazon and Google, respectively – dwarf … Read more
You probably haven’t heard of them, but the Spanish cloud gaming company PlayGiga was just acquired in a $78 million deal with Facebook. Up until now, PlayGiga had focused its cloud gaming services on a limited number of markets: Italy, Argentina, Chile, and Spain with plans for a launch in the Middle East. According to … Read more
Riot Games dropped support for Facebook in the latest League of Legends update, version 9.20, which is now live. The game allowed players to easily find their friends in the game using their Facebook credentials. It also added your real name below your summoner name on the in-game friends’ list. Players will now have to … Read more
Sony has ended Facebook integration on PS4. This means that users can no longer share screenshots and gameplay videos on Facebook or use the friend finder feature. Users will still be able to use the system’s share features, just not share them through a linked Facebook account. Gameplay videos can still be posted to YouTube … Read more
Last week, we reported how a number of users had experienced an Angry Birds outage on Facebook. Given that at least one user reported spending money on in-game content, we reached out to Rovio for comment. They have confirmed that the game is indeed having issues with certain browsers. “I would like to let you … Read more
Last month, we posted an article about how Angry Birds Friends just launched for Windows PC. For the past week or so, we’ve been getting a series of comments from fans saying that the Facebook version of Angry Birds does not work for them. Angry Birds Friends has been out on Android and iOS devices for … Read more
