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The Last Of Us Show Mercifully Leaves Out A Famous, Devastating Game Death
7.3.2023
The Last of Us show had a pretty gruesome episode this week. The Winter section has long been regarded as the original game’s darkest section, reckoning with its most villainous figures and horrifying realities of the post-apocalypse. Because of that, it’s perhaps merciful on the showrunner’s part...
Popular Vtuber Pikamee Retires Following Hogwarts Legacy Controversy
2.3.2023
Earlier last month, Pikamee, a popular vtuber canceled her Hogwarts Legacy stream and went offline for three weeks, neither tweeting nor creating video content from February 8 through March 1. Yesterday, she announced she will retire from her vtubing career entirely. Angry fans have latched onto...
Twitch Streamer Kai Cenat Bodies Subscriber World Record During Black History Month
1.3.2023
Kai Cenat, the 21-year-old rising Twitch star who took the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform by storm in 2021 and 2022, has smashed another record on the last day of Black History Month. This time, it was the record for the streamer with the most active subscribers, an accolade previously...
Twitch Star Adin Ross Banned After Streaming Porn, Now Lashing Out
27.2.2023
Adin Ross, one of Twitch’s top broadcasters with over seven million followers, has been banned from the livestreaming platform for the eighth time. This time, it appears to be permanent following a string of incidents he’s engaged in on rival streaming platform Kick, including pulling up porn...
This AI Can Make Endless Super Mario Bros. Levels With Just A Few Words
16.2.2023
The technology we casually refer to as “artificial intelligence” is suddenly everywhere. It’s used to “create” art, dialogue and voice, text, even video games! It’s nigh impossible to escape as we enter a dystopian future in which generative technology seeks to threaten entire livelihoods...
Doja Cat Streams ‘Satanic’ PowerWash Simulator On Twitch
16.2.2023
Did you know that Doja Cat has a Twitch account? Well, you do now. On it, she’s been playing this “Satanic” game called PowerWash Simulator. Maybe you’ve heard of it.Read more
Twitch Star xQc Horrifies World With Messy, Smelly Room (Again)
16.2.2023
There are only so many hours in the day and when you’re a capital-S streamer, most of them are dedicated to grinding battle pass levels in whatever new live-service game just dropped or reacting to all the latest internet drama to thousands of chatters. As such, there isn’t always time to clean...
Keanu Reeves Continues To Have The Best Tech Takes
16.2.2023
Keanu Reeves, the breathtaking Hollywood action movie star, unaging vampire, and Cyberpunk choom everyone wants to smooch continues his streak of having the absolute best takes on deepfake technology, NFTs, and cryptocurrency in film.Read more
Genshin Impact Fires Voice Actor After Sexual Misconduct Allegations
16.2.2023
One week after a Genshin Impact voice actor publicly apologized following accusations of having sexually inappropriate relationships with fans, HoYoverse has finally taken action. The studio announced on Twitter and Reddit that the actor, Elliot Gindi, will no longer voice Tighnari due to a “breach...
Dragon Ball Is Secretly Great at Romance
14.2.2023
You think Dragon Ball is just an action shonen series? You fools. You heathens. Allow me to enlighten you, to expand your mind to galactic proportions through a long series of hyperfixations that reveal what many overlook about Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball — that it’s secretly great at romance.Read...
Call of Duty Sexists Tell Twitch Streamer To Make Sandwiches, And She Does
14.2.2023
It’s 2023, and FPS gaming hasn’t really improved for anyone who sounds like a woman over voice chat. No matter how skilled they are, it seems inevitable that some fuckwad is going to tell the player to make a sandwich. One female Call of Duty streamer decided to respond to shitty opponents...
The Aftermath Of Twitch's Deepfake Porn Scandal
10.2.2023
You know Sweet Anita. You’ve seen her streams, stumbled across her Twitter account, or watched clips of her on TikTok. She’s likable—the kind of person you could watch do anything, even as she clicks her tongue, whistles, and tells you fuck off. You’ve probably had her curse you out on repeat in...
Hogwarts Legacy Spoilers Are All Over The Internet, As Is Harry Potter Tradition
9.2.2023
Hogwarts Legacy spoilers are all over the internet right now. They’re in the Kotaku tips inbox, they’re in the comments on popular gaming website’s tweets, they’re casually getting scattered everywhere on the web, tossed into conversations with reckless abandon.Read more
Don’t Sleep On Keke Palmer’s Amazing Twitch Streams
9.2.2023
Another big-name celebrity has found their way to Twitch. Keke Palmer, the long-time actress and TV personality who most recently starred in Jordan Peele’s Nope, has become a full-fledged livestreamer on Amazon’s platform after getting her channel set up earlier this month.Read more
Genshin Impact Voice Actor Apologizes After Accusations Of Sexual Misconduct
9.2.2023
The voice actor of a popular Genshin Impact character was recently accused of being in relationships with multiple fans, some who claim to have been underage at the time, and pressuring them for nude photographs. The voice actor, Elliot Gindi, further confirmed in a TwitLonger post Wednesday that...
30 Rock Predicted Twitch's AI Seinfeld And Milf Manor Because Of Course It Did
8.2.2023
Typically, whenever society finds itself walking the line between normalcy and absurdity, the peanut gallery within The Simpsons’ fandom can pinpoint an episode from the long-running animated sitcom that predicted whatever awful or neat phenomenon we find ourselves in. This time around, however,...
Hogwarts Legacy Is Dominating Twitch Right Now
8.2.2023
Hogwarts Legacy is officially out on Friday for current-gen consoles and later this year for last-gen consoles and the Nintendo Switch, but those who splurged on the Deluxe Edition got early access starting on February 7. And the game is already garnering a massive audience on Twitch. In fact,...
Oh No, ChatGPT AI Has Been Jailbroken To Be More Reckless
8.2.2023
If you’ve spent any time toying with or reading about ChatGPT, one of the internet’s latest obsessions and topic of contentious conversation concerning artificially intelligent software, then you know the service has specific restrictions on what it can and cannot say…until now. Some clever users...
Bojkot nefunguje, hra ze světa Harryho Pottera zbořila rekord na Twitchi
8.2.2023
Kouzelnická hra Hogwarts Legacy sice oficiálně vychází až v pátek 10. února, mnoho lidí už k ní má ovšempřístup a své první dojmy živě vysílají na internet. Obrovský zájem o hru nejlépe ilustruje fakt, že v prvním dnu dokázala ve své kategorii pokořit dosavadní divácký rekord ve sledovanosti...
Twitch, YouTube Streamers Raise Big Funds For Syria-Turkey Earthquake Relief
7.2.2023
Twitch isn’t just a place where artificial intelligence festers and drama proliferates. It’s also a useful organizational platform for raising awareness around and funds for various global causes, which is exactly what a handful of big-name streamers, like Ben “CohhCarnage” Cassell and Hasan...