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Twitch Streamer Hasanabi Gets Official Pass To Say 'Cracker' From Wheat Thins
21.11.2022
Last year, Hasan “Hasanabi” Piker was temporarily banned from the Amazon-owned streaming platform, Twitch, for having the audacity to say “cracker” full-throated while broadcasting to an audience of 2.3 million followers. Last week, everyone’s favorite tiny-headed socialist streamer finally...
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Advises What Consumers and Businesses Should Do as Recession Looms
21.11.2022
Amazon founder and former chief executive Jeff Bezos has given some advice to consumers and small businesses about what they should do given that the U.S. economy is either already in a recession or is headed into one “very soon.” The billionaire said: “The economy does not look...
Amazon's MMO Forces Players To Pay Higher Tax Rate Than Jeff Bezos IRL
16.11.2022
Last week, New World’s patch notes indicated that taxes on Trade Post transactions would increase from 2.5 percent to a whopping 5 percent. What’s funny about this situation is that the MMO is published by Amazon Games, which is owned by Jeff Bezos. Last year, ProPublica reported that Jeff Bezos...
Manga Creator Demands Elon Musk Pay Him One Billion Dollars For Posting Cringe Meme
10.11.2022
In between attempting to post through being tarred and feathered for transforming Twitter into the world’s silliest pay-to-win, Elon Musk is being asked to pay royalties to a manga artist after posting a popular anime meme. Read more
Buy Two Twitch Subs And They’ll Throw In A 3-Month Xbox Game Pass Trial
4.11.2022
Here’s something you might want to know: For the next week, Twitch is partnering up with Microsoft and offering three-month PC Game Pass trials to Twitch users who purchase two subscriptions.Read more
Bitcoin weak hands 'mostly gone' as BTC ignores Amazon, Meta stock dip
28.10.2022
Huge tech stock losses, mostly occurring after the Wall Street close, fail to show up in Bitcoin price weakness
Amazon Has Something ‘Special’ For Fallout Fans: A Single Screenshot Of The Show
25.10.2022
Happy birthday to the Fallout franchise—which I’m currently treating as a real person and not a corporate-owned IP—you’re 25 years old this year! Wow, how time flies. You are bigger than ever, with multiple games, DLC, mods, and now an in-development TV show from Amazon. Let’s see what Amazon...
Resident Evil 4 Is One Of The Best Scary Games Ever, And I Can’t Stop Buying It
17.10.2022
Back in 2005, when I was younger, Resident Evil 4 looked so cool. Then I found out that it would only be released on the Nintendo Gamecube, which I didn’t own. My dreams were shattered because I was a dumb kid and didn’t realize that one day it would come to more consoles. Since that sad moment...
Google Kills Cloud Gaming Service, Announces Cloud Gaming Laptops
12.10.2022
At the end of September, Google shut down its Stadia gaming platform, an ambitious attempt at letting people play video games without needing any actual video game hardware to play them on. Today, Google announced a new line of Chromebooks with an emphasis on cloud-based gaming.Read more
NBA 2K23’s In-Game Durags Cost More Than Real Ones, Somehow
11.10.2022
If you’ve played any of the NBA 2K games, chances are you’re no stranger to how the microtransactions serve as swift scuffing on the fresh J’s of your enjoyment of the game. While many wish microtransactions would peace out—much like the Golden State Warriors’ Jordan Poole did after suffering...
Disco Elysium Studio Accused Of Ousting Creators, Dev Says It's 'Bad News' For Sequel
3.10.2022
Some of the core developers behind beloved 2019 indie RPG Disco Elysium, including the author of the novel it’s based on, are no longer working at the studio that created it. The news was revealed in a blog post written by an editor on the game, Martin Luiga, who claims studio leadership at ZA/UM...
Congressman Under Investigation For 'Sex Trafficking' Caps Off Twitch's Worst Week Ever
22.9.2022
First Amazon-owned Twitch was ravaged by a major gambling scandal. Then it revealed a new, worse revenue split for creators because it had to charge itself too much for servers. Next Bloomberg reported that the platform has a major problem when it comes to potential predators using it to target...
Twitch Streamers Are Pissed That Amazon Is Taking More Of Their Money For BS Reasons
22.9.2022
Yesterday, the president of Twitch, Dan Clancy, announced a change to the revenue system that would mean some of the top performing Twitch streamers will get less money. According to Clancy, Twitch was making this change in order to afford increasing server costs.The changes would not affect “the...
Twitch Bans Major Gambling Sites After Streamers Threaten Strike
21.9.2022
It’s been a rough 24 hours for people broadcasting in purple. After a scandal broke that a Twitch streamer had been scamming viewers and peers alike out of an alleged $200,000 to fund a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive addiction, top personalities started exerting pressure on the live-streaming...
ECB Chooses Amazon and 4 Other Companies to Help Develop Digital Euro
18.9.2022
The European Central Bank (ECB) has selected five companies to help develop user interfaces for a digital euro. Each company will work with the ECB and focus on one specific use case of the digital euro. Amazon has been chosen to focus on e-commerce payments. ECB Collaborates With 5 Companies...
European Central Bank chooses Amazon and 4 other firms to prototype digital euro app
16.9.2022
The five fintech, payments and e-commerce firms will create front-end prototypes for the digital euro, which will not be used in later phases of the CBDC project
Diablo Immortal Community Faces New Unrest Over Ill-Gotten Orbs, Lack Of Bans
12.9.2022
In the real world, everything runs on Dunkin. In Diablo Immortal, it’s powered by orbs. Eternal Orbs, to be precise. And players are once again reckoning with the mobile action-RPG’s microtransaction economy after Blizzard announced that players who’d purchased hundreds of thousands of illicit orbs...
Pokimane: Twitch Isn't 'Creatively Fulfilling' Anymore, So She’s Branching Out, Streaming Less
2.9.2022
After a more than one-month-long (and seemingly healthy) break from social media and content creation, Twitch star Imane “Pokimane” Anys has returned to uploading content. But things will be different now. Pokimane dropped a new YouTube video today detailing her time away from the internet, talking...
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Preorder Bonuses Are So Terrible, They're Getting Mocked
31.8.2022
Gamer salt over preorder bonuses is nothing new. But this time, the Pokémon community’s salt feels partially justified. Amazon recently showed an infographic that details what fans can get by ordering Scarlet and Violet digitally ahead of launch: A set that includes 10 potions, 10 antidotes,...
Amazon Prime’s New Free Games Include The Best Assassin’s Creed, Lord Of The Rings, And More
25.8.2022
Starting next month, Amazon Prime subscribers will be able to grab eight free PC games, including the best Assassin’s Creed game, Football Manager 2022, and the open world stab ‘em up, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. Read more