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Awesome Games Done Quick 2022 Starts Today, Here’s How To Watch
9.1.2022
And just like that, somehow it’s been a whole year since the last Awesome Games Done Quick. The speedrunning event, back for its 13th year, starts today. After a terrible 2021, relax and enjoy some fun, impressive, and wild speedruns for the next week. It might just be the best way to kick...
Pokimane Temporarily Banned On Twitch After Streaming Avatar: The Last Airbender
8.1.2022
Pokimane, one of Twitch’s biggest and most popular streamers with over 8.5 million followers, was banned from the platform last night while streaming herself watching the cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. The ban is temporary, according to Pokimane, but is a sign that Twitch’s growing “TV Meta”...
Play These Classic Games Created In Communist Czechoslovakia
3.1.2022
A project by the Slovak Game Developers Association has seen a collection of Communist-era early video games receive their first English translation, and a digital release, offering a unique insight to early ‘80s Eastern Europe.Read more
Behold, A Japanese Hand Massaging Device For Gamers
30.12.2021
Bauhutte, the folks behind the gaming bed and the gaming mattress, are back with another interesting product: A hand massager for gamers. Read more
Esports High School Opening In Japan Next Spring
23.12.2021
Do you like video games? Are you going to be a high school student in Japan? If you answered “yes” to both, have I got an academic institution for you. This April, as junior high school students across Japan enter high school, a new type of specialty institution will open its doors. Dubbed “Esport...
Despite Breaking Records, Ludwig And Other Streamers Who Jumped Ship Aren't In Twitch's 2021 Recap
16.12.2021
Apparently, the rivalry between Twitch and YouTube is so cutthroat that Twitch has dipped into revisionist history with some of its former streamers. Ludwig, DrLupo, and TimTheTatman were removed from Twitch’s end of the year celebratory recap event. Read more
This Senior Couple Were The MVPs Of A Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Tourney
9.12.2021
The 2021 CEO Fighting Game Championships tournament last weekend had plenty of surprising announcements, but nothing quite as surprising as the participation of Tinker and Arachius. Tinker and Arachius are a senior couple who competed at CEO to understand how a professional fighting game tournament...
Streamer Has Said 'Mario' 345,000 Times Over The Last Few Days
7.12.2021
If you have ever wanted to hear a word repeated so many times that it loses all meaning to you (semantic satiation, it’s a real thing), then please enjoy this stream of a man who has committed himself to saying the word “Mario” over half a million times.Read more
Let’s Pick Winners For The 2021 Game Awards
3.12.2021
It’s December, the month when little children’s thoughts turn to presents and big children’s thoughts turn to Geoff Keighley’s annual celebration of world-premiere trailers. And those trailers come with awards between them, bestowed upon the best games of the year as judged by professional game...
Former Twitch Subathon Star Ludwig Suspended Days After Switching To YouTube
3.12.2021
It took mega streamer Ludwig Ahgren less than a week after abandoning Twitch for YouTube to get temporarily banned from Google’s video platform. His mistake? Briefly streaming the smash hit children’s song Baby Shark.Read more
How The Celeste Speedrunning Community Became Queer As Hell
30.11.2021
Queerness has always existed in the gaming world, even if it hasn’t always been out in the open. But more and more, we’re seeing new and existing gaming communities embrace and even center their queer members. One such community is the vast, rapidly growing subculture around speedrunning,...
Ludwig Leaves Twitch For YouTube Gaming
30.11.2021
Twitch streamer Ludwig Ahgren, who in April set a world record for the highest number of subscribers—at over 270,000—has left the platform and will now be streaming exclusively at YouTube Gaming.Read more
The Gulf Between Amouranth and Other Top Women Streamers On Twitch Is Enormous, Stats Say
15.11.2021
When Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa isn’t getting banned from Twitch for things like wearing a horse mask and suggestively slurping a microphone, she’s pulling huge viewership numbers month after month. Not only was she Twitch’s leading female streamer for October, she accrued almost as many view...
Amazon's New World Pauses Economy Again To Stop Cheaters
15.11.2021
The latest game-breaking bug in New World has been allowing players to duplicate items. Amazon locked down the MMO’s entire economy (again) after concerned players started posting about the situation on its official forums. As of the time of publication, New World players can’t send money, trade...
New World Disables 'All Forms Of Wealth Transfers' After Gold Exploit Found
2.11.2021
After an exploit was found over the weekend that first let players send images in the chat box, kick other players unknowingly and duplicate gold, Amazon has stepped in and taken some drastic action.Read more
New World Bug Let You Kick Other Players Just By Chatting With Them
1.11.2021
New World’s launch has been plagued by a bunch of weird, sometimes catastrophic bugs, but this latest is one of the strangest I’ve ever seen: it let you kick other players out of the game just by sending them certain messages.Read more
Star Citizen Players Are Overdosing Each Other Unconscious In 'Safe' Areas
21.10.2021
Perpetual work-in-progress Star Citizen might never be a real game you can just nip down to the shop and buy, but watching developer Cloud Imperium try is endlessly entertaining. In the latest update on the game’s test server, players have figured out how to use newly-added healing guns to deliver...
Sony Patent Lets Viewers Vote and Pay to Boot Players From Games
20.10.2021
In 2020, Sony filed a patent for allowing livestream spectators and participants to remove players from a game. Yesterday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office approved the patent, which you can read in full here. Besides removing unskilled players, the system would allow spectators to...
Report: Yes, Twitch Once Had A ‘Do Not Ban’ List
18.10.2021
Twitch’s big leak this month included more than just source code and payday info. Details emerged about a “do not ban” list, which sure sounds like the sort of nefarious document that allows certain people to play the same game by different rules. But a new Washington Post report indicates that...
Only Three Percent of Twitch’s Top-Earning Streamers Are Women, Apparently
6.10.2021
The Twitch leak from 4chan confirmed what a lot of people already know: The majority of the platform’s most successful content creators are men. But what’s shocking is the disparity. Out of the top 100 creators, only three of them are women. Only one of them is a woman of color.Read more