Nvidia’s GeForce Now is getting a big upgrade next month — and it’s also part of an intriguing new experiment. Nvidia, Discord, and Epic Games have teamed up for an early test of instant game demos for Discord servers, which could theoretically let you immediately try a game without buying it, downloading it, or signing up for an account. “You …
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Discord’s UK age-verification thwarted by ‘Death Stranding’ photo mode
Users have already found a workaround to bypass the UK Online Safety Act’s new age verification system. According to PC Gamer, it only took 24 hours after the law went into effect for someone to get past the age requirement on Discord. All they needed was a little help from the video game Death Stranding. X user DanySterkov discovered that …
Read More »Reddit and Discord’s UK age verification can be defeated by Death Stranding’s photo mode
Enforcement of the UK’s new online safety rules started on Friday, forcing a variety of platforms to roll out mandatory age verification tools for Brits. We already know that the age-gating checks are easy to bypass with a VPN, but what we didn’t know is that the face scanning tools used by platforms like Reddit and Discord can also be …
Read More »Discord’s virtual reward, ‘Orbs,’ launches out of beta
After announcing in late May that the platform would be experimenting with a new virtual reward system, Discord is now launching it to the public. The aim of the rewards, called Orbs, is to get people to click on more interactive ads. Users earn Orbs after completing Quests, which involve interacting with ads for products or games to get virtual items. …
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