Xbox Live is currently down as thousands of gamers in the UK and US report an outage. Most of the issues are affecting signing in, the core Xbox Live service and purchasing items. Xboz gamers are furious((Image: XBOX)) Xbox fans are furious tonight as games are not working and gamers are unable to log in … Read more
Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) today launched a second Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) package with a speed of 1.6Gbps on Openreach’s network, calling it ‘Broadband made for gamers‘bundle and claims to offer online gamers’lower latency, geofencing of game servers and prioritization of internal networks,” among other things. In case anyone forgot, EE already launched a … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Can you play one video game forever? There may not be endless books or endless movies, but there are games that people spend thousands, even tens of thousands of hours playing. A Polish fan of … Read more
A new study on gaming toxicity has found that 69 percent of gamers admit to smurfing, despite hating it when others smurf at them. The uninitiated may wonder what smurfing is, or perhaps imagine that 69 percent of gamers paint themselves blue and replace all their verbs with “smurf” during a gaming session. If you … Read more
Online video game players believe that the behavior known as “smurfs‘ is generally wrong and toxic to the gaming community – but most admit they do it and say some reasons make the behavior less objectionable, new research shows. The new study suggests that debates over gaming toxicity may sometimes be more complex and nuanced … Read more