Toxic

Call of Duty (CoD) and League of Legends (LoL) are games with the most toxic gaming communities, according […]

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65% of female gamers experienced toxicity whilst playing on console, PC, and laptop games, a slight 7% reduction compared to […]

Read More… from Survey shows slight reduction in toxic and threatening behaviour towards women gamers year-on-year, but majority say there still aren’t adequate processes in place to deal with it

Ubisoft has joined forces with UK-based video game mental health charity, Safe In Our World, to promote positive […]

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UK-based game matchmaking company Teams.gg has added Overwatch 2 to the roster of games on its platform and […]

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Game publishers Ubisoft and Riot Games have today announced the ‘Zero Harm in Comms’ research project, which aims […]

Read More… from Ubisoft and Riot Games announce ‘Zero Harm in Comms’ research project to detect harmful content in game chat

Riot Games has introduced a big update to tackle player toxicity in League of Legends’ in-game chat. Those […]

Read More… from Toxic League of Legends players to be automatically muted in chat as part of new ‘zero tolerance’ language detection system update

British gaming company Teams.gg has brought its free bespoke team-finding and friend-finding service to popular battle royale shooters […]

Read More… from Teams.gg adds Apex Legends and Fortnite to in-game team-finding service which aims to help players avoid toxicity, becomes official team finder for Valorant in Northern Europe

Esports will always have its challenges and there will always be players that make mistakes. But it’s not […]

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Riot Games hit toxic Valorant players with 40,000 bans and 400,000 chat restrictions (or mutes) in January 2022. […]

Read More… from Riot issued 40,000+ Valorant player bans and 400,000 chat restrictions in January as part of clampdown on toxic behaviour, plans for ‘real-time text moderation and harsher punishments’

eBlitz, a new company based in London, UK, hopes to prevent toxicity in competitive video games with its […]

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Holy ****, it’s official, Rainbow Six Siege streamers and YouTubers swear more than content creators in other games. […]

Read More… from Rainbow Six streamers swear more than any other type of content creator, study finds, as XQC is named most foul-mouthed streamer

UPDATE (February 2021): Soulcas and DPS have since issued apologies to Yinsu Collins (on February 3rd and 15th […]

Read More… from The line between constructive criticism and vile abuse towards rising esports broadcast talent needs to be addressed (updated)

Photo by Vladyslav Cherkasenko on Unsplash Update (February 23rd 2021): The UKEL has banned Demise academy player Sultan […]

Read More… from Do those who make toxic comments deserve a second chance in esports? Should VayneGod and Wilhelm have been allowed to play in the UKEL?

FACEIT recently revealed Minerva, their AI which challenges toxicity in their CSGO servers – and it’s already proving […]

Read More… from FACEIT reveals Minerva, bans 20,000 players for toxicity

Scottish Rainbow Six Siege pro Jack ‘Doki’ Robertson has been banned by Ubisoft and ESL due to ‘severe […]

Read More… from UK Rainbow Six player Doki banned for severe toxicity: ‘To all fellow players, let my punishment be a lesson to you’