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BlizzCon 2021 viewers got to watch heavy metal group Metallica perform its hit song "For Whom The Bell Tolls" to an online audience. If you're one of the many who watched it on Twitch, however, you were in for a hilarious treat. See, in order to avoid a DMCA takedown on Twitch, Metallica's performance was replaced with the most non-heavy metal-s...
Just recently, Twitch has removed the PogChamp emote following the recent tweets and statements from the face of the emote Ryan "Gootecks" Gutierrez. However, the streaming platform company said it wishes to find a way for "the sentiment and use of Pog to live on" by collaborating with the streaming community. And by the community, it means reno...
Following the recent news of Twitch discouraging its content creators and streamers from posting violence-inducing content related to the Capitol Hill protests and breach, the livestream platform also made the decision to remove its most-famous emote from its service. We are referring to the PogChamp emote. This is due to statements from the fac...
So much for 2021 starting off just fine. A Twitch spokesperson said to esports insider Rod Breslau (via Twitter) that due to recent events in the US of A, streamers are not allowed to "show content that incites or glorifies violence, or shows gore of any kind" on the platform. In case you literally woke up following GMT+8 time, thousands of pro-Tr...
You say you want a revolution? Well, you'll have to settle for a word protest that happened within a week in the minefield that is Twitch chat. Twitch banned the words "simp", "incel", and "virgin" on 15th December via a surprise policy update. "Using terms like simp, incel, or virgin as an insult to negatively refer to another person’...
Since earlier this year, Twitch has experienced a massive takedown of any videos and streams which featured copyrighted music. Many streamers and users lost years' worth of content, due to copyright strikes by third parties who own the rights to said music. In a long blog post earlier today, Twitch apologized for its mishandling of the situatio...
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that the PS5 will support tons of entertainment apps when the console launches on 12 and 19 November 2020. The PS5 media remote will even feature dedicated launch buttons for some of these apps. The PS5 entertainment app lineup includes: Apple TV – The new Apple TV app will allow use...
The U.S. Presidential Election is slated to take place on 3 November 2020, which is just two weeks away. In an attempt to drive the younger demographic to go out and vote, New York US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (or AOC) streamed the popular Among Us game earlier today. https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1318714726491279361 Also jo...
Tyler "Ninja" Blevins is officially return to Twitch with a new exclusive, multi-year deal. He initially left Twitch back in August 2019 to stream exclusively on Mixer but not anymore after the Microsoft-owned streaming service shut down earlier this year. After that, he meandered on YouTube for a while, before finally announcing his exclus...
The United States (US) Army will temporarily suspend its activities on the streaming platform Twitch due to negative backlash. According to industry insider Rod “Slasher†Breslau, this move from the US Army comes after the overwhelmingly negative response to their activities on Twitch, which includes attempts of recruitment on the stre...
Last month, famous streamer Dr. Disrespect (whose real name is Guy Beahm) was banned on Twitch for an undisclosed reason. What's bizarre is that not even he knows why he was banned, as he finally opened up on his Twitch ban several weeks after the news broke. However, he does confirm that his time on Twitch is now over for good. Speaking with Wash...
Several famous streamers got into a heated argument on Twitter that laughably resulted in a lot of unnecessary drama and Ninja weirdly bringing up Alinity's previous controversy of abusing her cats. The very public feud began because of comments made by streamer xQc made on Twitch. According to him, some streamers on Twitch apparently get paid to ...
High-profile streamer Guy "Dr. Disrespect" Beahm is suspended from Twitch.tv. His channel has been removed and is made publicly known. https://twitter.com/StreamerBans/status/1276591483081162754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1276591483081162754%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcgamer.com%2Fdr-disrespect-has-been-susp...
The gaming world's version of the Me Too movement has sparked over the past few days as a number of women have come forward and revealed claims of sexual assault allegations on social media. These cases involve prominent members of the gaming community, including streamers and gaming journalists alike. However, a lot of these specifically involved...
Last week, two black music veterans Jamila Thomas and Brianna Agyemang urged their peers from making money on 2nd June and reflect on long-standing racism via the #TheShowMustBePaused initiative. Video game rapper and Mega Man fan Mega Ran decided to leverage his popularity on Twitch and raising bail funds instead. The fundraising was a re...
Thanks to the power of the internet, GDC 2020 won't be entirely absent this year. Talks will be streamed between 16 March to 20 March 2020, the week which the event was supposed to take place before being affected by Covid-19. "Thanks to submissions from many of the original speakers who had talks accepted for GDC 2020, organizers will be streamin...
Call of Duty streamer Carl Riemer has been suspended by Twitch after accidentally firing a pistol during a livestream. He was also removed from the roster of esports and content creation brand SoaR Gaming as a result of his actions. https://twitter.com/SoaRGaming/status/1235596785613074432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%...
In case you haven't been paying attention, Australia is facing one of its worst disasters in history. Wildfires have consumed 12 million hectares of land and possibly killed half a billion animals. Needless to say, Australians are suffering immensely. PaladinAmber, an Australian Twitch streamer, is taking things into her own hands. According to he...
Twitch has revolutionised the livestreaming landscape. It's a form of new media that has replaced live TV broadcasts for a lot of folks. Obviously, this can get pretty messy and it seems like a Russian company has found some troubling violations. [caption id="attachment_48350" align="alignnone" width="1360"] Image from The Moscow Times.[/caption] ...
Riot Games' new collectable card game League Of Legends Runeterra was just announced yesterday during the franchise's 10th Anniversary livestream and it's already managed to become the second most-watched game on Twitch, toppling the likes of League Of Legends, World Of Warcraft, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The most shocking thing about ...
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