Gaming

Microsoft Azure is down, affecting 365, Xbox, Minecraft, and others

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Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing service provided by the company, is experiencing a significant outage on Wednesday. The problems started around 12 p.m. ET, and Microsoft has acknowledged the issue on the service’s status page. According to Microsoft, “We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change triggered this issue.” The company has not indicated when service […]

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VLGE is making it easier to world build and shop on Roblox

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In Evelyn Mora’s early career, she realized that fashion designers, although often deeply focused on sustainability, couldn’t stage environmentally friendly large-scale fashion shows.   In 2021, she launched VLGE, a gaming and immersive-world-building platform that specializes in working with brands. It lets brands build their own worlds, fill them with interactive content and games, and export said

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Sony rolls out new ‘PlayStation Family’ parental controls app

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Sony Interactive Entertainment announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a dedicated parental controls app called “PlayStation Family” on iOS and Android. The new app features a series of new tools that allow parents to manage their children’s activity on the console, including an activity report, greater visibility into what their children are playing, and the

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AI gaming startup Born raises $15M to build ‘social’ AI companions that combat loneliness

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Fabian Kamberi, CEO and co-founder of the Berlin-based AI gaming startup Born, thinks the current AI companions on the market are designed to be exploitative and geared towards isolating users through one-to-one relationships with AI chatbots.  “It feels like it fuels the loneliness epidemic, instead of making it more fun and giving users the opportunity

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Roblox announces short-form video feed for gameplay clips, new AI tools for creators, and more

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Online gaming platform Roblox is launching a TikTok-like short-form video feed for sharing gameplay moments, the company unveiled on Friday at the Roblox Developers Conference. The company also announced increased earnings for creators, new AI tools to boost creation, and other advancements in performance. The new short-form video experience, called “Roblox Moments,” is launching in

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Roblox expands use of age estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings

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Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its age estimation technology to all users and partnering with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) to provide age and content ratings for the games and apps on its platform. The company said that by year’s end, the age

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Mirror founder Brynn Putnam to unveil her new startup at Disrupt 2025

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Seven years after unveiling Mirror at TechCrunch Disrupt 2018, Brynn Putnam is returning to the stage where it all began. The serial entrepreneur who turned a fitness concept into a $500 million acquisition by Lululemon will debut her latest venture at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at San Francisco’s Moscone West in October. Putnam’s path from that

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As India bans real-money games, Dream Sports, MPL start pulling the plug

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Top Indian startups in the real-money gaming space have begun shutting down operations after New Delhi effectively banned the sector through new legislation that’s now on the verge of becoming law. On Thursday, the upper house of the Indian parliament passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025 — proposing to completely ban

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