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Cities Skylines 2 CEO Claims Community Is Too Toxic
Gamers have a bit of a history with toxicity especially during “the old MW2 lobbies” hurling slurs left right and centre. Whilst it can be hilarious watching people throw a strop over some games, it can ruin the experience and overall community. One such community is for Cities Skylines 2…
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YouTube Rolls Out New Update Looking to Target ‘Toxic’ Comments
Google has certainly been making proactive steps over the last couple of years when it comes to toxic behaviour on its platforms. The internet, and social media in general, can, of course, be an occasionally unpleasant place thanks to some of the basement dwellers that lurk upon it. – For…
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Overwatch 2 Adds ‘Voice Transcription’ Feature to Tackle Toxic Players
Overwatch 2 has predominantly gotten off to a fairly positive start with the community with a lot of interesting new features and general character tweaks. With that being said, however, it’s still a long way from being perfect with various balances and bug fixes still being applied to try and,…
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Reddit Analyst Finds Over 1 in 8 Users Post ‘Toxic’ Content!
It surprises many when they learn that I’m not actually a regular user of Reddit. I know, right? An eloquent troll such as me not being on the platform?! What a loss to the online world! – Jokes aside though, I think if you were to ask most people that…
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Reddit Gamers Start Migrating to More Friendly ‘Low-Sodium’ Forums!
It’s often something of a surprise to many people who know me to learn that I’m not actually an overly active user on Reddit. Largely, I think, because they view me as something of an eloquent troll. – Oh sure, I have an account, and I post there occasionally, but…
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Toxic Spillage Confirmed at Samsung’s Austin Texas Plant
By and large, the production of pretty much all electrical components will always result in some level of toxic byproducts being created. As you might imagine, therefore, many major organisations spend an absolute fortune to ensure that not only are these contained but that they are disposed of in an…
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Sapphire Finally Unveils its 6900 XT TOXIC GPU
Sapphire has today announced the long-envisioned and highly anticipated TOXIC AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Limited Edition Graphics Card designed for the DIY Enthusiast and Gamer pursuing unrivalled performance with a paramount cooling solution. Driving an innovative overclocking solution with incredible new cooling technology, the TOXIC AMD Radeon RX 6900…
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Sapphire to Bring Back its TOXIC and ATOMIC GPU Series?
It is certainly nothing new to see that, over years of development, graphics card AIB partners do occasionally tend to somewhat quietly drop certain brands and product lines. It seems, however, that following a report via Videocardz, Sapphire may be set to re-introduce some names we haven’t seen for a…
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Microsoft Updates Xbox Live Guidelines To Address ‘Trash Talk’
Microsoft Clarifies ‘Trash Talking’ I am a firm believer in that ‘trash talking’ can be an acceptable practice in gaming. It is, after all, fun to have a little banter to try and get the people you are playing with engaged in a positive way. It does, however, raise the…
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Blizzard Reports 40% Drop In Overwatch Player Toxicity
Overwatch In June last year, Blizzard vowed to try and stop Overwatch turning into a toxic nightmare. As such, they introduced a new endorsement system and beefed up their report service. This basically allowed players to praise others who behaved well and report those who didn’t. In regard to the…
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Blizzard Names 18,000 Banned South Korean Overwatch Players
Overwatch If you play Overwatch, you will be aware of how Blizzard has been taking very proactive steps to ensure that the community is as ‘clean’ as possible. Through the use of in-game reports, Blizzard has been regularly handing out suspensions or bans against anyone they feel is not acting…
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Blizzard Announce Overwatch League Discipline Tracker
Overwatch League Discipline Tracker Over the last year, Overwatch master Jeff Kaplan has made it pretty clear that he doesn’t want any toxic players in the game. Fearing it may decent into CS:GO levels of abusive, many, many, players to date have been issued with bans (temporary or permanent) for…
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Blizzard Confirm Overwatch Toxicity Has Dropped
Blizzard Confirm Overwatch Toxicity Has Dropped Blizzard has made it pretty clear that there is no place in Overwatch for toxic behaviour. With this, they have implemented a number of actions including much harsher penalties for those to be abusive or disruptive in the chat. This has resulted in communication…
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Blizzard – Overwatch Role Queues A Nice but Impractical Idea
Overwatch Role Queues are a nice idea, but just too impractical! Overwatch is approaching its 2nd Birthday. At this point, most FPS games have run their course and the player base begins to drop off. With this game, however, it is still going as strongly as ever. I must confess…
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