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Roku’s New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game

4.4.2024
A new patent recently filed by TV and streaming device manufacturer Roku hints toward a possible future where televisions could display ads when you pause a movie or game.Read more

Capcom Asks Players If They Want Dragon’s Dogma 2 DLC

28.3.2024
Dragon’s Dogma 2 has only been out for a week but Capcom is already considering the possibility of adding content to the game in the future. The action-RPG has been met with widespread critical acclaim (and, yes, no shortage of player grievances), and it looks like the game’s publisher may want...

Family Is Suing Makers Of Fortnite, Call Of Duty For Fostering Addiction

9.11.2023
Fans sue (or attempt to sue) video game companies all the time. Just this year a Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II fan sued remaster publisher Aspyr for not delivering its planned restored content DLC, but these situations are usually targeted at specific companies about an isolated issue....

Steam Remote Play Is Getting Prettier With 4K Streaming

16.8.2023
If you make use of Steam’s very handy Remote Play service and you own a 4Kscreen with which you like to stream to, good news: Remote Play is on its way to supporting a wonderful 3840x2160 resolution. You’ll need to grab the beta client of Steam to get it working right now, but it’s a welcome...

Steam's Subreddit Is Running An Excellent Protest

22.6.2023
As we’ve been covering, things are not going well over on Reddit at the moment, with the site’s ownership currently engaged in a running battle with readers and moderators. Users are so annoyed at attempts to monetise the site that they’re working through a variety of protests, but one of...

Popular Former Fortnite Pro Tfue Retires From Twitch At 25

20.6.2023
Turner “Tfue” Tenney, a former Fortnite pro and ex-Faze Clan member who courted controversy after controversy during his time creating content online, announced his decision to retire from livestreaming at the age of 25.Read more

Reddit Hackers Demand $4.5 Million Ransom For Stolen Company Data

20.6.2023
The messy aftermath of Reddit’s controversial API price increase might get messier. The ransomware hacker group BlackCat, which claimed responsibility for snatching 80GB of company data in February, is now demanding the news aggregator and community platform fork over $4.5 million and rescind...

Amouranth Follows xQc’s Lead And Leaves Twitch

20.6.2023
Kaitlyn Siragusa—you’ll recognize her as variety streamer Amouranth—is leaving behind 6.4 million Twitch followers behind to stake a new claim on livestreaming platform Kick. Like other streamers fed up with poorly communicated changes around stringent monetization rules and an uncomfortable...

Reddit's CEO Is Just Making Everything Worse

16.6.2023
As you may have seen over the past week, Reddit—the “last page of the internet”—has not been having a good time, after the company’s CEO decided to oversee some changes that affected some very popular apps that people were using to access the site. That CEO, Steve Huffman, is now doing some...

Stop the Presses: Criticism Against the New York Times Mounts as Newspaper Is Accused of Killing 59 Million Trees Annually

19.4.2023
After the New York Times (NYT) published an editorial about bitcoin mining, claiming the industry is harmful to the environment, an organization called Stop the Presses took issue with the Times’ paper usage. Stop the Presses launched a social media campaign against the NYT’s newspaper...

Xbox Patent Sounds Cool For People Buying Games On Disc

17.5.2022
Microsoft have applied for a patent that, while not a perfect solution for every gripe you may have with modern consoles and digital ownership, may nevertheless be a great step forward for anyone who has a catalogue of games they own on disc but have bought (or are thinking of buying)...

Bungie Sees Multiple Claims Against Destiny Cheat Seller Dismissed In Federal Court

30.4.2022
Bungie was served a bit of a loss this week in its ongoing legal war against cheat makers and sellers. On Wednesday, a federal judge dismissed Bungie’s copyright infringement claims against website AimJunkies while agreeing with the cheat seller’s legal defense that the Destiny publisher’s other...

World of Warcraft Streamer Has Been Celebrating Her 80th Birthday On Twitch For 12 Days (And Counting)

30.3.2022
Twitch can often be a cesspit of awfulness. If it’s not one streamer getting swatted or another streamer getting accused of misogyny, then it’s potential litigation between big-name broadcasters (that ultimately fizzled into nothing). But there is some good on the platform, too. One such example...

Sunday Comics: Good Idea

13.3.2022
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more

Hearthstone Streamer Swatted Live On Twitch

11.2.2022
Twitch streamer Alexandra “Alliestrasza” Macpherson, a prominent Hearthstone player and a member of esports organization Fade 2 Karma, was arrested on February 9. But it wasn’t her fault. She was swatted while playing the collectible card game live on stream, with police showing up fully strapped...

YouTuber Hit With Ungodly Number Of Anime Copyright Strikes Gets A Win For Everyone

27.1.2022
In a new video, Mark Fitzpatrick of the anime YouTube channel Totally Not Mark revealed he not only won a battle in his copyright strike war with Toei Animation but also influenced YouTube to create a new copyright rule for content creators.Read more