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Breaking Barriers: The Journey towards Inclusive Gaming — An Interview with Victor Dima

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Breaking Barriers: The Journey towards Inclusive Gaming — An Interview with Victor Dima

In the vast and ever-evolving landscape of video games, there’s a growing realization that true enjoyment knows no boundaries. Gaming was once an activity with no power to get to all kinds of people but now it is embracing a new paradigm of accessibility, one that transcends physical

The Security Stack for Game Development

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The Security Stack for Game Development

The job of a game dev cannot be easy and cannot be seen as so. A game dev despite working in the videogames industry in its most important job (the making of games) and despite having the ability to build fantastic and everlasting games, a game dev has to surpass

Smurfs in gaming: Definition and Impact

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Smurfs in gaming: Definition and Impact

Let’s talk about smurfs! Not the movie, of course, but about one thing in gaming that is particularly annoying for most gamers and is getting a bigger and bigger problem in the gaming industry. But what are smurfs, exactly? Smurfing in video games is when a high-ranked player

Age Verification through Behavior Biometrics

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Age Verification through Behavior Biometrics

Child well-being and safety on the internet has been a massive topic of discussion for the past twenty years or so, we have noticed way too many (one is already too many) cases of children getting hurt on so many levels because of encounters that they had on the

Driving Positivity in Video Games

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Driving Positivity in Video Games

This blog article is a follow-up to a webinar by Anybrain and Bodyguard.ai presented within the Fair Play Alliance. The entire webinar can be found here. The topic of the webinar was “Driving Positivity in Video Games” and with this blog post, we hope to develop a little

Get to know your indie #2 — KEO by Redcatpig

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Get to know your indie #2 — KEO by Redcatpig

Get to know your indie #2 — KEO by Redcatpig Welcome to number two of our “Get to know your indie” series, a series of blog posts where we present an awesome indie studio and its latest creation. Today we bring you an indie studio from the Azores, Portugal called Redcatpig

Announcing webhook feature for bans automation

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Announcing webhook feature for bans automation

We are proud to announce the Webhooks feature that will allow our customers to automatize bans in real-time on their games. How does this work? In complex systems, you may want to provide additional event handling on your custom server, e.g. applying bans or warning players when a

Monetization around cheaters

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Monetization around cheaters

It is common knowledge that the world of video games and especially online video games are full of cheaters, but do these cheaters create cheats just for the simple pleasure of being better than other players, as was the custom at the beginning of this practice? Of course not, with

We have identified the cheat, now what?

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We have identified the cheat, now what?

It is a fact that there is a chronic problem in video games, there are always people who try to cheat by using programs to make the gameplay easier or to get an advantage over others, these are called cheaters. Studios and game developers have been dealing with this problem

The view of video game pros on the cheaters problem in our industry

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The view of video game pros on the cheaters problem in our industry

Video games… a universe full of possibilities for creation, construction, writing, art, and fun but also frustration. Frustration is often caused by the realization that there will always be those aiming to be better at a certain video game through unfair vantages, or cheats. How many times did we fall

Mobile emulators as a way of cheating

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Mobile emulators as a way of cheating

Emulators… a term that has been part of every gamer’s language for several years now. I first heard the word when I was trying to take a nostalgic trip back to the PS1 or GameBoy times, but nowadays an emulator is much more than that! An emulator is a

Get to know your indie #1 — Death Carnival by Furyion Games

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Get to know your indie #1 — Death Carnival by Furyion Games

Today we start a new set of articles on Anybrain’s blog, the “Get to know your indie”. We are part of a gaming community that produces indie games of enormous quality and we wanted to meet their creators, and understand the difficulties and the good moments that they went