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Hong Kong's senior superintendent Steve Li holds up a copy of one of the books at the center of the case. DANIEL SUEN/AFP via Getty Images Five speech therapists in Hong Kong have been convicted of sedition for publishing three books. The illustrated children's books depict sheep warriors defending their homes from evil wolves. A […]
Indie publishing label Surprise Attack Games said it has rebranded itself as Fellow Traveller and will now focus on publishing unusual narrative games from independent developers. Fellow Traveller also announced two new signings to the label. It will publish Chance Agency’s cyberpunk taxi-driving adventure, Neo Cab, and alien-ocean-exploration game…Read More
A federal judge from New York ruled that embedding a tweet containing an image in a webpage could be considered copyright infringement. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a870568f721ce73ee3afc0d/master/pass/twitterjudge.jpg
A Texas university newspaper is apologizing after a student wrote an opinion piece that condemns white privilege and accuses white people of being an “aberration” that “shouldn’t exist.” Martinez begins his article, entitled: “Your DNA is an abomination,” with a tweaked Robert Oppenheimer quote about the detonation of the first atomic bomb he helped develop. […]
A few years ago, gamers had a good laugh when they learned that a Chinese chicken meat company bought Digital Extremes, the maker of Triple-A games such as The Darkness 2 and Warframe. Then the company bought Splash Damage in 2016, people did a double take again. Alex Xu, the CEO of Leyou, was the […]
BuzzFeed has decided to run banner ads — the ubiquitous, clickable square and rectangle ads that appear all over the internet — after years of talking them down. The decision shows the limitations of native ads, customized ads designed to emulate the look and feel of the websites or apps they appear on. A number of digital media companies bet big […]
Galore Galore Media says traditional ads just don’t work for Gen Z, the 70 million people born between 1996 and 2010. Instead it focuses on creating content for marketers and connecting them with influencers. “This is how everybody will have to build a media company in the future.” When the digital-media company Galore talks to […]
Andy Lyons/Getty Images Former celebrity couple Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn are among the latest to fall victim to hacks and leaked nude photos being published online and their lawyer is vowing to go after the sites who don’t take them down. Attorney Michael Holtz, who is representing both Woods and Vonn, told the Minneapolis […]
OZY’s next TV show, Third Rail With OZY, is launching on PBS this fall! To kick things off, we’re shelving the PC and launching debates. Nothing is off-limits, and we’ll go where most fear to tread. Each Wednesday, we’ll post a provocative question, with a focus on topics that might make it onto the show. […]
Industry veteran (and former IndieGames.com editor) Mike Rose has cut the ribbon on his new game publishing label, No More Robots. The new operation aims to take a data-driven approach to games publishing without losing the human element of the business. Primarily, the label aims to elevate unique games through the use of strong support […]
