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Dark and Darker Devs Distributing Game on Discord as Playtest Goes Ahead Amid Legal Issues – IGN
- Dark and Darker Devs Distributing Game on Discord as Playtest Goes Ahead Amid Legal Issues IGN
- Dark and Darker devs ask fans to torrent April playtest because “it’s taking time to resolve the Steam situation” Gamesradar
- Dark and Darker dev asks players to torrent latest playtest after Steam delisting Eurogamer.net
- RPG Pulled From Steam Over Theft Allegations Asks Fans To Torrent It Instead Kotaku
- Dark and Darker is still kicked off Steam, so Ironmace is ‘going old school’ with BitTorrent for the latest playtest and fans are loving it PC Gamer
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PlayStation 5 Getting Discord Voice Integration, Other Features
Sony just announced a ton of new features currently under development. Features such as support for 1440p output have been teased for some time while others, such as the ability to join a Discord voice chat natively, feel like they should have been announced sooner than several years into the console’s life cycle.
You won’t be the first to access these features unless you’ve been selected for the beta, but they seem fairly promising. You’ll finally be able to make Discord calls directly from your PlayStation 5 and display the game that you’re playing to whoever you’re talking to (just like the mobile and desktop versions).
The PS5 will get other notable social features too. You’ll finally be able to request screenshare directly from your friends’ profiles, join gaming sessions through “Party” chats, and see which games that your friends also own on their account. If you’re picky about who gets to join your games (like me), don’t fret: Sony is giving PS5 owners the ability to dictate who does and doesn’t get to join your games.
These additions are potentially huge boons to the multiplayer ecosystem that Sony has been trying to build out ever since it acquired Bungie for $3.6 billion. And according to a financial call from last year, multiplayer was the biggest reason that PlayStation Plus users kept paying to use Sony’s gaming subscription service every month.
Even if you’re not big on multiplayer, Sony is developing features that are applicable to all PlayStation owners. The one I’m most excited about is the ability to use a voice command to capture video. You wouldn’t fiddle with details manually either; you can make presets for how long an average clip should be.
If you upgraded to a current-gen console recently, you probably remember game save transfers being a huge pain point. Currently, the only way to shuffle your PlayStation 4 saves to your new console was to dig into your cloud storage. PlayStation Plus subscribers will eventually be able to transfer save data automatically. Even if you’re not paying for Sony’s gaming subscription service, you’ll soon be able to transfer data between individual PS5s. You know, now that it’s supposedly possible for the average person to secure more than one console.
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If you’re lucky enough to receive a beta sign-up email, then you can preview these features before anyone else. So check your inbox carefully.
Phasmophobia ‘Sex Pest’ Kicked From Official Discord Server
An admin on the official Discord servers for Kinetic Games’ extremely popular indie horror game Phasmophobia was recently removed after a Twitter user issued a public condemnation of the studio for not keeping its community safe from sexual harassment and racism.
Last week, Twitter user @CrownedCollider posted a thread in which they alleged problematic behavior by one of Phasmophobia’s Discord admins, “Charcoal Salamander.” The accusations, backed with Discord screenshot receipts, concern inappropriately shared nudes and outright racist behavior. While the developer’s lead artist, CJ, initially responded skeptically in a private DM and seemed reluctant to act, two days later they issued an apology tweet stating that Charcoal Salamander had been removed from the server. Yesterday, Kinetic Games tweeted its own statement detailing issues with the admin in question, which go back to the beginning of the year.
Kotaku has reached out to Kinetic Games for comment.
According to Kinetic Games’ statement, Charcoal Salamander had been accused of sexual harassment on January 25 of this year, specifically sharing nude images and broaching several “on-the-line” topics. At the time, Kinetic Games was content with Charcoal Salamander’s response, believing that the images had been shared publicly elsewhere on Discord.
@CrownedCoIIider’s initial call-out tweet last week was met with dismissal by Kinetic Games lead artist CJ via Twitter DMs. In shared screenshots of the conversation, CJ disagreed with the nature of sharing nude images, dismissed it as essentially boys being boys, and claimed that this alone wasn’t a punishable offense.
A day later, @CrownedCoIIider shared videos of a private conversation with Charcoal Salamander, in which the former Discord admin can be seen making racist comments. Following this, CJ issued their apology, suggesting that their dismissal of the inappropriateness of what is arguably revenge porn was taken out of context.
Per their statements, the artist CJ pledged to “not let a situation like this happen again,” and Kinetic Games said it “will do better.”
Discord users complain about new Android update
Yesterday, Discord for Android officially launched a “major overhaul” that leverages a cross-platform framework to make development easier and more in line with the iOS app, but the update is resulting in a number of complaints.
The cross-platform framework in question is the open source React Native created by Facebook/Meta several years ago. Discord adopted it for the Android app to allow for “feature consistency across platforms” given a “centralized and streamlined app development process across Android, iOS and desktop.” Previously, Android feature development lagged behind desktop and iOS as those two platforms were prioritized. “Faster app update release cycles” is the other major tentpole of the ground up React Native rebuild.
This update has been rolling out “over the past few weeks” and there have been more than a few complaints in that period. For starters, people dislike the density-impacting larger UI and font on Android that is meant to be “more consistent with iOS.”
Others complain about Discord being “buggy” (2, 3) and “laggy” (“slower,” 3, 4) following the update, with this critique particularly coming from those with older phones. Another common issue has been about text fields requiring manual scrolling after typing a lot of characters. The general sentiment among Android users is that they did not really have issues with the usability of the previous client.
Complaints about performance and quality after apps transition to cross-platform development are quite common. Detractors are often critical of how applications lose native UI elements and conventions after a switch. For its part, Discord says it’s “still retaining Android and iOS specific patterns in the UI.”
Typically, bugs related with switching development processes are common and will get resolved over time, but it’s a bit concerning that seemingly basic issues are still popping up even after months of beta/alpha testing.
The best thing Discord for Android users can do now is report bugs about the update.
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‘Monster Hunter Paradise’ appears to have leaked via Discord
The next game in the Monster Hunter franchise has seemingly leaked via Discord.
In a now-deleted tweet, user @neonaga99 pointed out that by experimenting with Discord’s backend while using the developer-mode build of the platform, it was possible to activate some placeholder events scheduled for later in the year.
While these were mostly blank, one of them invited players to claim a code for ‘Monster Hunter Paradise’, seemingly confirming the title of the next game in the series.
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However, the Nintendo Switch does have its own Monster Hunter series, Monster Hunter Rise, which recently received a large expansion, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak.
VGC’s Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak review said: “The original Monster Hunter Rise is an absolutely fantastic game, so for this expansion to be just more would have been fine, but Sunbreak feels like it earns its price tag and then some.
“The barometer of good Monster Hunter content is if you want to run the same fights over and over to deck out your character in the entrails of the most horrific flying beast you’ve ever seen, and after only a few hours with Sunbreak, we could feel the addiction creeping back.
“Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak is an excellent expansion that will please those Hunters desperate for something new, just make sure you’re prepared, or you’ll quickly be rather sick of the sight of a group of Palicos hauling your lifeless body up the road.”
Bored Ape Yacht Club and Otherside Metaverse Discord servers reportedly hacked
The Bored Ape Yacht Club has been hacked again by a phishing scam that allowed thieves to steal more than a quarter million dollars worth of NFTs, reports say.
A manager account from the firm and and Otherside Metaverse was compromised this week, allowing hackers to access their accounts, CoinGape reported.
Once inside the scammers sent out phishing links posed as ‘exclusive giveaways’ for the NFT fans, stealing 145 Ethereum, which is about $257,515.65.
It comes just over a month after the group lost $3million from another set of scammers.
Pictured, the phishing scam that was sent out to members of the Bored Ape Yacht Club and Otherside Metaverse discord groups
The scam allegedly made off with about 145 Ethereum, which is about $257,515.65
Bored Ape Yacht Club focuses on buying and selling Bored Ape NFTs (pictured, one previously sold). The group had been targeted by thieves last month who made off with $3million
Data from PeckShield, a blockchain security firm, revealed that a total of 32 NFTs were stolen by Saturday, including one Bored Ape Yacht Club token, two Mutant Apes NFTs, Five Otherside NFTs and one Bored Ape Kennel Club token through the phishing attack.
NFTs, or Non-Fungible Tokens, are bitcoin-like digital tokens that act like a certificate of ownership, and live on a blockchain.
The scam was reportedly sent out through the account of a manager with the username BorisVagner, who enticed members of the discord groups with free tokens.
The breach comes more than a month after the Bored Ape Yacht Club, the biggest player in the NFT game, suffered major hacks in April, making off with four Bored Apes and a slew of other NFTs that totaled $3million.
Seth Green has created an animated show, in which a Bored Ape cartoon character works at a real Manhattan bar, White Horse Tavern, in the West Village
Hackers had targeted the group’s Instagram account and sent phishing links to members, who unknowing clicked on the posts and lost their valuable NFTs, The Guardian reported.
Jacke Moore, a global cybersecurity adviser, said that while Instagram attacks are nothing new, the close community over the Bored Ape NFTs can allow phishing scams to have devastating success.
‘This takeover has had a huge consequence and resulted in a mass robbery of digital assets,’ More told the Guardian regarding the April hack.
‘Similar to when physical art is stolen, there will be questions over how they would now be able to sell on these assets, but the problems in NFTs still prevail and users must remain extremely cautious of this still very new technology.’
Confidence in the Boared Ape Yacht Club continues to shake after Actor Seth Green fell for another scam where the copyright of his Bored Ape NFT that was set to be used for an upcoming TV show was stolen from him.
The actor, 48, was set to use a cartoon version of the NFT, Fed Simian, for his new cartoon, White Horse Tavern.
It features the real bar in Manhattan’s West Village, and imagines one of the bartenders is Fred Simian, who is part of an NFT collective called Bored Ape Yacht Club.
The character which Green bought is animated, and interacts with real actors in the 1880s bar.
But now production on the show has ground to a halt, after the lead character was ‘kidnapped’.
Green announced on May 17 that the character had been stolen. He has pleaded for its return on social media, and also insisted that he can still broadcast the show, because Fred Simian was stolen and copyright rules do not apply.
But Fred was sold on using cryptocurrency – a totally unregulated market – meaning the NFT’s unidentified new owner could well exercise a copyright claim if a likeness of Fred is broadcast without permission.
Internet outages: Spotify, Discord and more are finally back up
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Is Slack down now?
After yesterday’s outage, we have a new one today as it appears Slack is now having problems.
So what happened here?
It’s not exactly clear – not enough websites went down for this to be another web domain host problem, but it was too broad to be an issue with any one platform.
Let’s hope that a company comes out and says what happens, otherwise this’ll just end up ‘one of those things’.
And Discord is now back up too.
Discord is back up and running for messages, calls, and streams! We are still working on a few things like attachments and typing events, but those should come back online soon. Thanks for the patience everyone~March 8, 2022
It sounds like they’ve put it back together with twine and PVA glue, so it might be a bit slow to begin with. Maybe go gentle on it, start with typed messages before you go hard on the gifs and voice calls.
Oh, discordstatus.com has got a report saying “traffic is coming back online” though “some functionality will remain intentionally disabled until the service stabilizes”.
The status bar has gone from red to orange too, which is probably a good sign, right?
Spotify is reporting that it’s back in action.
Everything’s looking much better now! Give @SpotifyCares a shout if you still need help.March 8, 2022
So you should be able to access it soon, though servers might be rammed with everyone jumping on board, so give it a few minutes.
At least the Elden Ring servers aren’t down. If I had to play that game without seeing the same three jokes repeated from every player message, I’m not sure I’d be able to enjoy the game.
We’re hearing more reports that Discord is back up, including from people on team who use it. Maybe the storm really has passed?
A ‘source’ (someone we knows who plays it) has told us that Destiny is ‘down for maintenance’ on Xbox… but is still working fine on Stadia.
Remember Stadia? Well maybe now’s the time to dust off your… err, virtual console.
We’ve heard reports that Spotify is a lot more stable if you use the desktop app, rather than the online site.
So if you do normally use Spotify’s website for music (why?) maybe try the desktop app. Still, this might just be hearsay or confirmation bias, and our survey size is pretty limited, so don’t get your hopes up.
We thought these issues were US-only, but a few TechRadar team members in the UK have reported that the web app isn’t working for them either.
Well, it’s working for me, so I’ll just enjoy that. And YouTube, Apple Music, Prime Music, Tidal and the billions of other music streaming apps are still working, so hopefully no-one is having to sit in silence now.
Discord’s error status log also suggests the problem is ongoing, but there’s possibly another reason behind the decline in user report numbers on Downdetector.
It’s possible that, since everyone knows there’s a Spotify and Discord outage now, no-one’s bothering to report it any more. This would make it look like the issue has abated, when it actually hasn’t.
Spotify’s community page still reports a problem, with an official post from 50 minutes ago stating that the main issue was that people couldn’t log in.
Uh, nope – one of my US colleagues has confirmed Discord is still down for them. Well, maybe it’s slowly getting back up, but not for everyone just yet.
It’s starting to sound like services are returning to normality?
On Downdetector, reports of issues have been plummeting for the last few minutes. We’re checking in with some people to see if the apps are running again.
Despite the fact that Amazon Web Services is reporting issues, it doesn’t seem like the Bezos company’s web-hosting platform is the problem, because then lots more would be down.
Oh, and AWS hasn’t reported anything as far as we can tell.
We’ll bring you more when we work out what’s going on.
Reports suggest that Spotify and Discord are the two sites seeing the worst outages. In fact a Twitter trend page has been started where people are sharing memes.
At least Twitter isn’t down.
Oh, you might see on Downdetector that the online Apple store is down – well, that’s not quite because of the outage (or maybe it is, but there’s another reason).
That’s because Apple’s March Event just wrapped up, and the company usually takes its online store offline while it populates it with more products.
So yeah, busy day in tech. We saw the iPhone SE (2022), iPad Air 5, M1 Ultra and more. You can read our full Apple Event live blog here. Also, the store has just gone back online.
Some other reports are coming in from TechRadar team members in the US. They’re finding that Discord and Spotify are both down.
Spotify is another service which is down.
Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it. Thanks for your reports!March 8, 2022
However this definitely isn’t as widespread an outage as we sometimes see, because multiple members of the TechRadar team are accessing it just fine.
That said, all surveyed members of team are UK-based. This sounds a lot like a US problem.
It’s worth pointing out that not everybody will be affected by these outages – but enough are that some companies are commenting on the issues.
We’re aware of an issue causing message failures and are working on a fix. Apologies for the disruption & thx for hanging tight! https://t.co/rq97JXSEFvMarch 8, 2022
Discord is one such company, which apologized for the issue. Although it did follow up by saying “time to go outside everyone”, which seems a little sassy. OK, mom.
In the UK, the affected webpages are similar:
- Spotify
- Discord
- Amazon Web Services
- Destiny
- YouTube
- Cloudflare
- Google Cloud
- Revolut
- Snapchat
- Steam
In the US, Downdetector is seeing outages for:
- Spotify
- Discord
- Wikipedia
- Amazon Web Services
- Destiny
- Cloudflare
- YouTube
- Google Cloud
- Twitch
- Multiple Apple services
- TikTok
- Snapchat
This is our first post of this internet outage live blog – we’re investigating what’s going on now.
Discord recovers from two-hour outage
Discord experienced a widespread outage Wednesday afternoon, preventing many users from connecting to the communications app. The outage started at around 2:45PM ET and prevented users from joining calls or participating in text chats. “We are currently investigating a widespread API outage and are working to resolve this ASAP,” said the official Discord Twitter account. However, now the issue has been resolved, as the account tweeted “connection should be fully restored now” at 5:19PM ET.
Discord is used widely by the gaming community and currently has 150 million monthly active users. This latest outage appeared to affect most users, with widespread reports of issues even connecting to the service.
In a message in the Discord client, the company said:
We have identified the underlying issue with the API outage, but are dealing with a secondary issue on one of our database clusters. We have our entire on-call response team online and responding to the issue.
After the outage ended, a message posted to its status page said, “We have fully removed all rate limits and Discord is almost back to normal.” It also noted that “[o]ver the next hour, some Discord servers may continue to see some issues interacting with bots using slash commands. As part of resolving the incident, we needed to reduce load on our databases and we turned down some parts of our slash command system.”
Discord last experienced a brief outage in November, after Google Cloud problems caused issues for the communications app. This latest downtime is marked as a “major outage” on Discord’s status page, and it’s clear it has taken the service fully offline for most users.
Discord has been quietly building its own app platform based on bots over the past few years, and it plans to release a new app discovery feature in the spring. Bots are an important part of the Discord experience, with more than 30 percent of Discord servers utilizing them.
Update, January 26th 3:20PM ET: Article updated with more outage information.
Update, January 26th 5:35PM ET: Article updated to note outage resolved.
Spotify, Discord, and others are coming back online after a brief Google Cloud outage
Sites and services like Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and Etsy seem to be recovering after an outage that brought them, and many other sites, down for a little less than an hour on Tuesday.
The culprit for the outages appears to have been Google Cloud, and the service’s status page still shows a networking issue is currently causing problems resulting in the 404 errors that appeared on affected web pages. An update to the status page posted at 1:17PM ET says “the issue with Cloud Networking is partially resolved,” and it does seem like most services are coming back to life, albeit with some experiencing a few bugs or long loading times. Google’s status page notes that there currently isn’t an ETA on when the problem will be fully fixed.
A peek at DownDetector shows the sprawling impact of the issue, with everything from Pokémon Go to Home Depot experiencing issues. We’ve reached out to some of the affected companies and will update this post as more information becomes available.
Google Cloud Status Dashboard:
Summary: Global: Experiencing Issue with Cloud networking
Description: We are experiencing an issue with Cloud Networking beginning at Tuesday, 2021-11-16 09:53 US/Pacific.
Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.
We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2021-11-16 10:40 US/Pacific with current details.
We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.
Diagnosis: Customers may encounter 404 errors when accessing web pages.
Workaround: None at this time.
We’re aware of some issues right now and are checking them out! We’ll keep you posted.
— Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) November 16, 2021
The tracker showed that many of the services started experiencing issues at the same time, which points to a common provider experiencing issues, rather than something like an ISP disruption or individual sites coincidentally having issues at the same time. Similar to previous outages that came from problems at Fastly or AWS, the reliance of services on other providers can help them offer content at a massive scale, but if there’s a problem, then all of them can go down at once.
Update November 16th, 1:30M ET: Noted updates from Google Cloud and that services are coming back online.