Epic Games announced a slew of new features on its virtual storefront to make it easier to connect and play games with friends. Player profiles, group chats, and a newly optimized search tool to find friends will all be making…
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Interview: A Chat With Valorant’s Max Grossman On Killjoy, And Riot’s Design Philosophy For New Agents
Valorant is all about inches. Anxious, lonesome tiptoes into a bomb site can feel like miles. Every nook and cranny potentially houses miscreants eager to ensure you swallow a dose of lead-aspirin. So a razor-sharp focus and steady trigger-finger are…
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Steam chat tool removes slurs, but it should remove the slur users
Moderating language is difficult for any platform. But Valve Software is trying to move forward in taking on this challenge with a new Steam feature called Chat Filtering. This enables Steam members to opt into an algorithm that obscures what…
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Valve Adds Chat Filtering To Block Slurs In Steam, Now In Beta
Steam is adding a chat filter to block slurs and profane language from chats. Nothing ruins a competitive online multiplayer game than getting a random string of expletives and profanities by one of the opposing players following a match. Many…
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Twitch chat murdered The Outer Worlds’ first NPC
The Outer Worlds has come to Twitch, but probably not in the way you expect. The sci-fi-RPG from Obsidian Games has become the the first pre-release game to have a Twitch Plays stream, and chat has already murdered one poor,…
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