In its ongoing war against toxic online behavior, 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. » 1/06/15 11:15am 1/06/15 11:15am

It's July. We're at the halfway point. I know. But it's really going to be difficult to top Japanese flyweight Takuya Eizumi's trollface for this year's best. » 7/17/14 7:15am 7/17/14 7:15am

Yesterday on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver gave an excellent explanation of why you shouldn't trust Comcast, no matter what they say. He also realized that the solution to the problem resides in the comments sections of every website on the internet. » 6/02/14 12:30pm 6/02/14 12:30pm

In part because it's the biggest game on the planet, and in part because its community has a pretty poor reputation, the developers of League of Legends have been looking at some unique ways to combat unsavoury behaviour in the game. And are coming up with some refreshing results. » 4/09/14 8:00pm 4/09/14 8:00pm

You know what they say, you shall love your troll as yourself. The Doubleclicks take this edict to heart by performing an amusing song dedicated to nasty internet trolls...it's kind of sweet! » 9/26/13 6:00pm 9/26/13 6:00pm

Earlier today, the Steam store featured a news item written by a developer claiming that the Half-Life 3 internal beta had been released. As you might've guessed, it was fake—but anyone looking at Steam could see the "news." » 8/19/13 8:30pm 8/19/13 8:30pm

Oh, Miiverse. You've got such amusing characters making all sorts of silly posts. Take "Sakurai" here, a poster which cronicstate found, for instance. Sakurai is almost assuredly a troll, but everyone takes the bait and argues with him over the possibility of having Dreamwork's Shrek in the new Super Smash Bros.

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I do not envy Xbox Live's enforcement moderators. They have an endless and thankless task policing the service's notoriously juvenile user base. And mind-numbing, too, if a the experience offered by "Enforcement United"—Xbox Live's new crowdsourced tattling system—is any indication. » 8/04/13 11:00am 8/04/13 11:00am

Remember how 4chan voted Kim Jung-un as Time's Person of the Year? Well, something kind of like that might have happened in Japan—but minus Time and the communist dictator. » 6/26/13 5:30am 6/26/13 5:30am

The timer ticks down toward zero. We tear across the Boneyard, one of Halo: Reach's best multiplayer maps, my good friend Rus driving with me sitting shotgun. I'm clutching the blue flag in hands that would be sweating if they were real. We shed our red teammates like skin; they race past us going the other direction… » 5/18/13 9:00am 5/18/13 9:00am

GTFO, the documentary about the relentless abuse female gamers suffer in online multiplayer, reached its funding target of $20,000. Shannon Sun-Higginson is the film's director. » 5/05/13 1:00pm 5/05/13 1:00pm