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League Of Legends Rewarding People Who Played Nice For All Of 2014
In its ongoing war against toxic online behaviour, League of Legends creator Riot Games has come up with a clever way to put a positive spin on multiplayer interactions: by rewarding players who made it through 2014 with a clean record.
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Mario Kart 8’s Online Multiplayer Is Getting Lonelier
“If you build it, they will come,” the saying goes. It’s never that simple when it comes to playing video games online. I love Mario Kart 8, and have been playing it consistently since it came out in May. But lately I’ve been running into a problem: other people aren’t. Or it sure feels that…
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The Death Of Deathmatch? How Console Multiplayer Is Changing
Playing together is deeply embedded in video game culture. Long before Xbox Live, before the days of Unreal Tournament and Quake, arcades were filled with friends jostling to get further, score higher and win bigger.
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Anti-Cheating Software Is Wrongfully Banning Battlefield 3 Players
Battlefield 3 players have been running into some renewed performance issues as of late, ones that are related to the 2011 shooter’s third-party anti-cheating software. Over the weekend, EA posted a message on its help website saying that PunkBuster, Battlefield 3’s anti-cheating program, was incorrectly marking some players and thus kicking them out of the…