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A few weeks after several clips of Valorant players harassing women via in-game chat went viral on X (formerly Twitter) and other social media sites, Riot Games has announced its plans to tackle the bad actors. In a seven-minute-long video…

A new game industry survey revealed that over 500 studios around the world are currently working on or maintaining live-service video games like Destiny 2, Suicide Squad, and Fortnite.Why This Under-the-Radar AAA Title Is More Than Just A…

Trigger warning: This post talks about child predation and sexual abuse.Back in September 2022, it was revealed that popular streaming platform Twitch was being used by child predators to track and, in some cases, groom young streamers. Not…

As December 2023 was underway, some streamers cleverly thought to play around with Twitch’s restrictions around nudity, broadcasting in such a fashion that implied they were completely naked on camera. Twitch, in response, began banning…

Twitch is shutting down operations in Korea, effective February 27, 2024.The video game streaming service posted the announcement on its website, in which Twitch CEO Daniel Clancy explained that operations in Korea have been “prohibitively…

Image: Twitch / Jynxzi / Luxie Games / Ebonix / KotakuThese days, it’s not easy to stand out on Twitch, the wildly popular game streaming platform. As of writing, there’s more than 7 million streamers who use the service to share live looks…

Photo: Vantage_DS (Shutterstock)While it does have a handful of consumption apps like YouTube, Hulu, and Crunchyroll in the eShop, the Nintendo Switch is typically used for gaming and little else. That became a bit more true today, as the…

Kids today only care about online free-to-play shooter Fortnite. They don’t even talk about how great gasoline is! Luckily for us, one large oil company wants to change that using Fortnite, TikTok stars, and Twitch streamers. Welcome to…

Earlier this year, Twitch streamer and psychology researcher Perrikaryal used her electroencephalogram (EEG) device (which records the brain’s electrical activity, but also has telekinetic research history) to beat Elden Ring, “using mind…

Twitch has introduced a new update to its settings menu that finally prevents banned and blocked users from viewing livestreams, a feature that some may be surprised to learn didn’t already exist.Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga’s Air…