Proximity chat lets you speak to players based on how close you are in a game. It's a feature that works in both competitive and cooperative game modes, and it's been a bit of a game-changer for ...

Go grave robbing with up to six of your friends in the co-op horror game Dig Dig Die, coming out sometime in the next couple ...

Discord has announced a new Social SDK to allow developers to integrate Discord-powered communication features directly into their games. This means gamers will be able to message, invite, and voice ...

ᴵ ˡᵒᵛᵉ ᵖʳᵒˣᶦᵐᶦᵗʸ ᶜʰᵃᵗ. ᴼʰ, ʷᵃᶦᵗ ˢᵒʳʳʸ. Okay, that should be better. I love proximity chat in games. It makes for incredibly unique multiplayer experiences in of itself, with plenty of comedy coming ...

FPS 2025 was so stacked with great games I missed the free, ass-kicking Christmas update to its best singleplayer shooter FPS 'Happy Gloom Year!': The new Gloomwood update is out, and it includes the ...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will inexplicably allow players to talk to enemy players that they've taken hostage as a "body shield" via voice chat, and I'm predicting levels of toxicity never seen before ...

GGWP, a brand safety platform for online communities, has added proactive voice moderation tools and been selected by Unity to be the safety partner of Vivox voice chat. On top of that, Another Axiom ...

Gaming experiences can be undermined, even ruined by bad behavior in text chat or forums. In voice chat and in VR, that bad experience is magnified and so much more visceral, so toxicity is amplified.

They did it. The absolute madmen did it. During today's Direct covering all things Nintendo Switch 2, it was demonstrated that for the first time ever, the console will have a built-in voice chat ...

Ghost reporting in the machine. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I'm on record as a sceptic myself. While I think AI—that is, ...

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