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Call of Duty and League of Legends deemed to have the most toxic gaming communities, study finds
Dom Sacco 24 October, 2024

Call of Duty (CoD) and League of Legends (LoL) are games with the most toxic gaming communities, according to a new study.…

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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
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Ubisoft launches ‘Good Game Playbook’ with UK video game mental health charity Safe In Our World to counter toxicity in Rainbow Six Siege and For Honor
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Teams.gg adds Overwatch 2 to in-game team-finding service, introduces extra anti-toxicity measures for under 16s
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Ubisoft and Riot Games announce ‘Zero Harm in Comms’ research project to detect harmful content in game chat
Dom Sacco 16 November, 2022
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Toxic League of Legends players to be automatically muted in chat as part of new ‘zero tolerance’ language detection system update
Dom Sacco 19 October, 2022
  • 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

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    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’

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

    Dom Sacco 12 October, 2019

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