Our latest coverage of discord.
Discord lived up to its name earlier this week when hackers took over several developer channels, including Valheim’s, this Monday. They proceeded to wreak havoc on the communication platform by spamming the channels with disinformation, porn, as well as phishing and malware links that caused even more damage. Valheim developer, Iron Gate Studios, managed to regain control of their channel [...]
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There seems to be no end to the layoffs happening in the video game and tech industries as Discord announces that it’s letting of 17% of its workforce on top of the 4% that were let go back in August. 170 employees are being dismissed in the VOIP platform’s latest round of layoffs as it works to sharpen its focus [...]
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Discord will be going slightly easier on rule breakers going forward as it makes changes to its punishment policies. Over the next few weeks, the popular VoIP and chat platform will be doing away with permanent bans for a wide range of offenses in favor of temporary year-long bans, although permanent bans will still be handed out to for “extremely [...]
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Discord’s monetization plans had sparked various concerns among the video game community since it was first announced back in December. The messaging platform’s proposed subscriptions plans included new channel-specific features such exclusive perks, roles, and other benefits for subscribers that naturally raised questions about potential abuse and the potential for expanded monetization strategies in the long run. The community’s concerns [...]
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In the latest news about stolen names in the video game industry, indie game studio Rusty Lake found themselves unable to register their names on Discord following the chat platform’s recent decision to do away with the four-digit discriminator at the end of usernames. The studio was one of those who were given a chance to reserve a username early, [...]
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Discord is coming to consoles, or at least to Xbox anyway, as one of the most popular chat app starts testing its voice chat feature on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Members of the Xbox Insiders program can now start chatting up their PC and Xbox buddies on Discord, but it won’t be as simple as clicking a [...]
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Three years after its public release, the chat and video platform Discord is ready to reveal the next phase of their plan for world domination. Starting today, beta invites have started to trickle out for Discord's new gaming storefront. The Discord Store will offer a curated gaming selection with personalized notes accompanying many titles, written by various Discord employees. The [...]
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Gamers will be happy to hear that Discord will finally be adding the much-needed videochat feature to its popular voicechat platform. According to a recent blog post, Discord has announced that 5% of its users will have access to the testing phase of its newly-added videochat and screenshare functions. Videochat will be limited to DMs and group DMs. Up to [...]
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Discord, the company behind the synonymous voicechat app for gamers, has quietly raised an impressive $50 million in the past year or so. While Discord gained its initial start as a game developer, the 2013 release of the ill-fated mobile MOBA Fates Forever veered them off course into a new direction. Fastforward to 2015, Discord has just unveiled the voicechat [...]
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Discord's in-game overlay is finally here. No more alt-tabbing to change channels or settings. You can do it all in-game now—for voice chat. Currently, the overlay only works on Windows and does not support any kind of text chat. Your antivirus may also flag it as a false positive. To enable the overlay, users simply have to go into their [...]
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