Rockstar Games has removed a fan-made mission simulating the assassination of Charlie Kirk from its popular online crime sim Grand Theft Auto Online, with the publisher even banning the conservative activist's name to prevent similar missions from appearing. As reported by IGN, developer Rockstar North introduced a new feature in the A Safehouse in the Hills update on December 10, allowing GTA Online players to create and share unofficial missions within the game.
The pace of online gaming evolution has been tremendous - from single-player browser-based games to multiplayer immersive digital worlds. Online gaming is now an indubitable cornerstone of the entertainment industry and has fundamentally transformed how individuals engage with, consume, and learn digital content. As the advancement of technology continues to evolve, the impact of online gaming will continue to propel gaming to heights of modern entertainment that were inconceivable two decades ago.
Roblox has gone through its share of highs and lows. After the pandemic's social-distancing period ended, it went through a period of slowing growth and intensifying losses, but recently, the video game platform company has regained momentum. And with its 152 million daily active users (DAUs) and strong engagement across demographics, Roblox is once again attracting some attention from investors.
Wikipedia is one of those rare digital miracles that feels like it live up to the vast promise of the web: a vast online encyclopedia, written and maintained by millions of volunteers across the world, in arguably the most extraordinary single repository of knowledge in human history. But of course, because any unverified user can edit Wikipedia, it's often become subject to vandalism.
Recreations of classic maps and modes from other games are nothing new in shooters. Lately, however, publishers have started getting prickly over users remaking maps from their game in someone else's, and it seems this may be especially true when those games are as competitive with each other as Battlefield and Call of Duty. Battlefield 6 players remaking CoD maps via the game's new portal mode are finding this out the hard way, with their recreations of modes and maps from Activision's popular shooter getting taken down over intellectual property violations.
Tim Higgins: Today on Bold Names, Liz Reid. She oversees Google Search and is something of a Google lifer. Having been there more than 20 years, she has seen some of the biggest moments for this company.
Coming to Genshin Impact on October 22, Miliastra Wonderland is one of the biggest features ever added to the RPG. Like the Serenitea Pot, which transports players to a separate realm where they can build their own home and farm, Miliastra Wonderland is a space that sits apart from the rest of the world of Teyvat. Getting access to the new content in the Luna II update won't take much time, as players only need to complete the first prologue quest chain to unlock it,
The just-announced House of Golf VR is officially the world's first mixed reality mini-golf game. But while it sounds like a quirky sports title, it's really a powerful playground for creativity, a tool that lets you design and share 3D courses in the real world. Created by Liverpool-based Starlight Games, the project uses advanced passthrough mixed reality to turn everyday rooms into imaginative, interactive spaces.
Just in time for back-to-school season, the Mentholatum-owned skincare brand has launched 'Zitcoms,' a content campaign that trades clinical messaging for something teens actually want to watch: awkward, self-deprecating humor. The series, created with agency The Bam Connection, uses influencers, everyday consumers and even high school drama departments to stage mini sitcom-style skits about acne struggles. The result is part branded content, part user-generated experiment and part theater performance, designed to feel more authentic than glossy ads and more relatable than medical claims.
