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Larian Studios has hit out at a number of companies laying-off development staff to maximise profits for shareholders.2024 has started with a number of studios cutting huge swathes of employees. Microsoft laid off 1,900 staff shortly after its acquisition of Activision Blizzard was approved, Riot Games laid off over 500 members of staff, and today (February 19) it was confirmed that Disco Elysium developer ZA/UM has cut a quarter of its staff.Elsewhere, the Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch claimed it wasn’t making a profit after another massive round of layoffs, while Embracer Group admitted that its “overruling principle is to always maximise shareholder value in any given situation” after cutting 1,400 jobs over the past 12 months.Last week, Baldur’s Gate 3 picked up a number of trophies at the DICE Awards including Outstanding Achievement In Story, RPG Of The Year, Outstanding Achievement In Game Direction, and Game of the Year.

Twitch may become required to disclose their earnings with their record labels, says Twitch CEO Dan Clancy.The CEO made the comments in a new interview with TweakMusicTips, where he revealed the streaming platform was soon to make an agreement where both DJs and Twitch would “have to share money with the labels”.“It doesn’t come for free,” he continued, and went on to stipulate that Twitch would pay a sum of money for what labels were owed: “We’re going to split whatever the cost is.”The news comes amidst Twitch’s ongoing debates with the use of copyrighted music on its platform. According to Endgadget, Clancy hopes this new deal with labels will prevent DJ streamers from being hit with DCMA takedown requests.He also claimed that currently, Twitch has a “pretty good thing” with labels where Twitch pays them money to use copyrighted music on the platform.

Twitch streamers have been skirting the platform’s guidelines by using their chests and bums as greenscreens to display gameplay on, but the company’s new rule aims to put a stop to this new meta.A clip from popular streamer Morgpie recently went viral, showing her streaming Fortnite via her greenscreened bum. People in the replies range from disgusted to impressed with the creativity on display.The Twitch Support Twitter account posted a statement March 27, just 11 days after the viral Morgpie clip was posted.

Shannon Liao, Shear took to social media late last week to comment on a recent article that said “CEOs are hugely expensive, why not automate them?”.“Unironically. Most of the CEO job (and the majority of most executive jobs) are very automatable,” he wrote.

Lil Yachty has shared his belief that Twitch streamers are currently making “more money” than “90 per cent of rappers.”Recently, the Atlanta rapper appeared as a guest on the streetwear store CoolKicks’ ‘Shopping For Sneakers’ web series. At the end of the vlog, he and the host discussed famous Twitch streamers Kai Cenat and Adin Ross – who are both friends of Yachty’s.“Shouts out the whole AMP [Cenat’s creator group], shouts out fuckin’ Adin Ross,” he said. “The young guys, the young bros, they goin’ crazy.

Twitch, has been hit with several charges over the chaos caused when he promoted a PlayStation 5 giveaway.Held in Union Square in New York City, Cenat announced the event in the early afternoon of August 4. He promised a “big New York IRL stream” – reports said that there were approximately 6,000 fans who showed up to get a shot at grabbing a console.According to a report from Wired, police arrested at least 65 people with half of them being adolescents. On the other hand, though Cenat and his friends were assumed to be in an SUV that tried to speed away from the area, he was taken into custody and questioned over the event.Now, he faces charges for inciting a riot, first-degree rioting and unlawful assembly.

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pic.twitter.com/ziEBFiQgAZLooking back, the LA native said she’s glad she took action.“But I handled it the right way. I told my management.

Twitch has responded to its controversial decision not to amend its reduced revenue split for streamers.It was confirmed last month that users who had been given “premium deals” offering them more than 50/50 revenue split would see their income cut, with Twitch blaming the expense of hosting streams.In a blog post, Twitch president Dan Clancy acknowledged that the platform had previously offered those deals to certain streamers, which involved better revenue payouts than the site’s typical 50/50 split.But Clancy said it had stopped offering these premium agreements in 2021 and acknowledged that although some streamers still get 70/30 revenue splits, these will be altered moving forward.“For these streamers still on these premium deals, we’re adjusting the deal so that they retain their 70/30 revenue share split for the first $100K [£88,144] earned through subscription revenue,” Clancy explained. “Revenue above $100K will be split at the standard 50/50 share split.”These changes will come into effect after June 1, 2023, and streamers will only be affected when it’s time for their existing contract to be renewed.

Interfax.Russian authorities had previously warned TikTok that fines would be imposed if the content remained accessible to Russian TikTok users, reports Reuters.Russia’s “propaganda” law was first adopted in 2013 to ban the spread of information about “non-traditional sexual relations” among minors.This includes any mention of homosexuality, sex education curricula that incorporate lessons about HIV/AIDS and condom use, mentions of LGBTQ historical figures, or content that depicts homosexuality, gender-nonconformity, or failure to conform to sex-based stereotypes in a neutral or positive light.A wide swath of actions, displays, or even inanimate objects have been deemed “violations” of the law, including a teenager’s decision to post pictures of shirtless men who were deemed to “look” homosexual to social media, scenes from a movie about Elton John, the mere existence of an LGBTQ advocacy group, Netflix movie and TV show offerings, a group of World Cup attendees wearing rainbow-colored shirts that appeared to form a “rainbow flag,” and even a bank note that depicted a partially-nude statue of the greek god Apollo.Despite being declared discriminatory by the European Court of Human Rights, Russian lawmakers recently moved to expand the law beyond minors to apply to all adults.As such, any depictions of homosexuality or LGBTQ identity in media, on the Internet, on social media networks, or in the public square, will be outlawed and punished with a fine.The law could even threaten public health by making it illegal for doctors to acknowledge a patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity.Russian authorities justify the law by claiming they are seeking to protect Russian citizens from being corrupted by “liberal values”

Ubisoft Forward live stream event is taking place tonight (September 10) and is set to confirm the future of the Assassin’s Creed franchise following the announcement of Assassin’s Creed Mirage.After an unofficial image spread around the internet like wildfire on September 1 that seemed to contain information on the new Assassin’s Creed game, Ubisoft confirmed the details and promised a full reveal of Assassin’s Creed Mirage at the upcoming Ubisoft Forward event.That event streams live tonight and fans of the series eager for a further look at Mirage as well as a “peek at the future of the franchise” can tune in to Ubisoft Forward tonight (September 10) at 8PM BST / 12PM PT / 3PM ET on the Ubisoft YouTube channel, or Ubisoft’s Twitch channel where Twitch Drops will be enabled, meaning viewers can earn in-game rewards as they watch. It’ll also be available to watch below.Ubisoft has also promised a look at its other upcoming games such as Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope and Skull and Bones, the latter of which received a release date of November 8 earlier this year.

Games Done Quick event will take place solely online due to organisers’ concerns regarding safety in Florida.GDQ had been set to bring its annual Awesome Games Done Quick marathon to the US Sunshine State in January 2023 in aid of the Prevent Cancer Foundation.In a statement issued yesterday (September 7), however, it was confirmed that AGDQ will be taking place online instead.“While we would love to return in-person, we’ve determined that to provide a safe and welcoming event to all it was best that we move away from our originally planned location in Florida,” the message read.“Given the state’s continued disregard for COVID-19’s dangers (including anti-mandate vaccination policies) and an increased aggression towards LGBTQ+ individuals, including the law colloquially known as ‘Don’t Say Gay’, we do not believe it is a safe place for our community at this time.”The statement added: “Immediately after the success of AGDQ 2020, we secured a contract with a venue in Florida to return in 2021.

Twitch is set to get rid of host mode next month, because it apparently “limits a streamer’s growth potential”.The feature was originally launched in 2014, and allows streamers to redirect their viewers to live channels whilst they’re offline, via their homepage.“We introduced host mode in 2014 to make it easy for streamers to give their viewers another stream to watch when they went offline. Since its launch, we’ve learned that streamers want to share their viewers with other streamers to help them grow and have introduced features that help you do that,” says Twitch.The company made the decision to deprecate the feature “because the experience it delivers to viewers doesn’t match their expectations when they come to Twitch.

Faze Clan’s Nicholas “Nickmercs” Kolcheff has directly responded to TwitchCon’s recent mask and COVID vaccine mandate by saying a Faze event will be doing the opposite.Kolcheff’s statement comes as both Faze Clan and Twitch are holding events in San Diego, California this month, with TwitchCon recently reversing its policy on no masks or vaccination documents after backlash.“Masks will be required indoors, as well as either proof of vaccination or a negative covid test,” said Twitch. “Let’s make the ultimate squad up safe and accessible for everyone.”Within 30 minutes of Twitch’s statement on the same day (August 12), Kolcheff quote tweeted Twitch saying Faze Clan’s event would have “no mask requirements, [and] no vaccine requirements,” (via Eurogamer).The MFAM and I will be doin’ our thing down in SD, it’ll be poppin’ all weekend.

Twitch has changed its COVID-19 guidelines for TwitchCon, with attendees now required to provide proof of vaccination or a negative test, as well as wearing a face mask while indoors.TwitchCon is set to take place next month in San Diego, with players able to meet streamers and take part in “legendary cosplay contests, rivals tournaments, meet and greets, rare loot, panels, artist alley” and witness an “epic” musical performance.However, following criticism from some fans about the lack of COVID-19 safety precautions, Twitch has now updated the entry requirements for the three-day event.“We’ve heard from many of you that you want a safer TwitchCon, so we’re updating our policy,” said Twitch in a Tweet. “Masks will be required indoors, as well as either proof of vaccination or a negative covid test.

Twitch streamer Clara ‘Keffals’ Sorrenti woke up on August 5 to armed police raiding her home, pointing an “assault rifle” in her face. It follows a campaign of harassment she has experienced whilst streaming on Twitch, and she has now pleaded for help.In a video posted to her YouTube channel (via PC Gamer), Sorrenti detailed a harrowing experience with London (Ontario, Canada) police, where they raided her home, armed, after “every city councilor in the city of Ontario” received an email stating that she possesses an illegal weapon, had killed her mother, and planned to go to City Hall and shoot “every cisgender person” in sight.After being taken into custody, she claims the police took the email seriously despite it being “riddled with grammatical errors” and appearing more like “something a troll would say”.

The annual European version of the Twitch event was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands earlier this month, whilst another yearly event is held in North America each year.Next year’s Paris event will take place in the summer, after the inaugural European TwitchCon was hosted in Berlin, Germany in 2019.“Attending TwitchCon offers a technicolour experience of everything that makes Twitch unique,” said Twitch CMO and EVP, International Doug Scott.“The memories and community bonds formed on our service are visible for all to see during a weekend of extraordinary entertainment, knowledge sharing, competitive gaming and, above all, fun. We cannot wait to bring the community back together again in San Diego this October and at TwitchCon Paris next year.”This year’s San Diego TwitchCon event will run from October 7 to 9, with tickets going on sale early next month in August.The exact size and scope for TwitchCon 2023 in Paris is yet to be revealed, but statistics suggest it may have to be bigger than this year’s event.

Bungie is filing a lawsuit against a Twitch streamer who allegedly got caught cheating in-game repeatedly, selling Destiny 2 assets, and threatening Bungie’s employees and headquarters.Bungie claims that Twitch streamer Luca Leone, also known as MiffysWorld, routinely streams themselves using cheats in the form of third-party software. In the lawsuit filed on June 15, Bungie said this is “used to gain an unfair advantage by players without the skill or integrity to succeed at the game on their own merit,” and that this “ruins the experience of playing Destiny 2 for Bungie’s large community of honest gamers.”Bungie also said it has already repeatedly banned Leone for these violations of the Limited Software License Agreement (LSLA).

Dr Disrespect‘s Fortnite tournament, Twitch disallowed any reference to the streamer because he is banned from the platform.On May 27, Dr Disrespect, aka Herschel “Guy” Beahm IV, hosted a $100,000 Fortnite event named Hot Shot Duo Drop, which featured several Twitch streamers such as Tfue, summit1g, and Zemie. As these streamers were involved in the event and went on the broadcast it to their viewers, they were required to refrain from referencing Dr Disrepect in any way (via, IGN).The tournament organiser BoomTV put together some rules to avoid any mention of the banned streamer, which were shared by Full Squad Gaming’s Jake Lucky on Twitter.“It is prohibited to use your channel to knowingly feature or advertise a suspended user,” the rules read.Dr Disrespect is hosting a $100k Fortnite event tomorrow featuring several Twitch streamers Posted now is the strict rule set those streamers will have to follow in avoiding showing or doing anything with Doc pic.twitter.com/J8V9uYDfR9— Jake Lucky (@JakeSucky) May 26, 2022“We understand that there may be instances where suspended users may appear on your stream due to circumstances beyond your control, such as through third-party gaming tournaments, but we expect that you make a good faith effort to remove them from your broadcast, mute them, or otherwise limit their interactions with your stream.”Twitch streamers were also recommended to use other names for Dr Disrespect when referencing him and his tournament, such as the “two-time” and “Blockbuster video game champion.”They were also required to hide any images or video of the streamer on their broadcast, as well as avoid sharing the tournament or bracket page on stream.

Twitch and Discord will be investigated for the role they played in the recent racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo.Last night (May 19) James announced the investigation saying that both social media platforms will be individually evaluated, as well as the “months” of online posts from the perpetrator. 4chan and 8chan – which were also used by the killer to plan his attack – will also be included.On May 14, the shooting’s perpetrator travelled to a Buffalo supermarket to carry out the attack, which he live streamed the first two minutes of before it was eventually removed by Twitch.

on Twitter, where more than 4.4 million people also watched.A Twitch streamer almost burnt down her kitchen in a cooking stream pic.twitter.com/a5OFh53ZYgWitnesses on social media grilled the amateur cook for failing to use basic fire safety — and doing so live on camera.“Don’t they cover this stuff in elementary school anymore?” one asked.“Why tf would you do a cooking stream if you don’t know the basics in safe cooking?” demanded another. According to the FireRescue1 community, an official partner of the International Fire Chiefs Association, small fires should be snuffed out by placing a fitted lid on the enflamed pan, or dousing with salt or baking soda, strictly.While water or fanning may seem like natural fire deterrents, both can actually augment the blaze in event of a grease fire.

Complex Games has announced it will be giving all Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters players bonus items after backlash to Twitch drops.When the game was released earlier this month, the company set up a variety of Twitch drops, meaning players would be rewarded with bonus items for watching various streamers on the platform.However, that didn’t sit right with some Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters players, who felt their time would have been better spent playing the game rather than watching someone else play it.Happy "Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters" release day!

Twitch streamer has gone viral after broadcasting a series of raves – complete with pyrotechnic effects and laser shows – from the comfort of his bedroom.Epilepsy warning: the videos embedded in this article include strobe effects and flashing lights.Going by the Twitch username Crossmauz, the 15-year-old streamer from Germany recently found fame after Twitter user ‘kittyzandpichu’ (via Dexerto) visited their channel after reportedly being killed by the streamer on Modern Warzone 2.As you can see below, Crossmauz’s streams consist of the teen hosting intense raves in his bedroom – complete with laser shows, pyrotechnics, and incredibly loud hardstyle music.just got killed by this kid on steam mw2 with twitch in his name and this is what i see pic.twitter.com/yjYYOkj0Hy— pj 黒 (@kittyzandpichu) April 11, 2022Crossmauz’s Twitch channel includes recordings of his past livestreams, which all match the frantic energy of the video above.Crossmauz hasn’t streamed in nearly two weeks, so it’s unclear if he’s aware that his content has gone viral. The video shared by ‘Kittyzandpichu’ has racked up over 7.5million views, while a video of Crossmauz’s last stream now has nearly 50,000 views.WAIT THIS THE SAME KID FROM THIS OMG pic.twitter.com/zZV9RYxQ4R— Ander Founts (@AnderFounts) April 12, 2022In many of Crossmauz’s streams, he wears a tracker that shows viewers a live reading of his heart rate.

Twitch has suspended its Boost Train feature, after a group of viewers used the paid boost system to land several porn livestreams on the site’s front page.Yesterday (March 31), several Twitch users reported seeing pornographic content on the site’s front page (via Dotesports).This was caused by Twitch’s Boost Train feature, which allowed stream viewers to “boost” channels to the front page in exchange for real money. The boosted streamer received none of this money, and the payments instead went entirely to Twitch.As reported by Zach Bussey and Twitter user thenoosh22, “determined trolls” used the feature to have pornographic livestreams appear in the ‘Recommended’ section of the Twitch homepage for users.Speaking to PC Gamer, a Twitch spokesperson has confirmed that the Boost Train feature – which was still in a testing phase – has been suspended due to “safety-related issues”.It’s unclear when channel boosting will return to Twitch, although it’s unlikely that the streaming platform – which has a minimum user age of 13 – will risk bringing the feature back before it has found a way to prevent trolls from abusing the system.This has only been the latest development in Twitch’s long-running battle with what the company describes as “bad actors”.Earlier in March, the site announced that it has “taken legal action” against individuals responsible for harassing streamers in a practice known as hate raids.

Twitch has announced which games will be joining the Prime Gaming subscription service in March.In March, Prime Gaming members will be able to get their hands on seven new titles, including Madden NFL 22, Surviving Mars, Crypto: Against All Odds, Look Inside, Pesterquest, SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech, and The Stillness of the Wind.Along with these main titles, more exclusive content and offers for several different online games are also up for grabs through the Prime Gaming Loot Page.For starters, since the release of Amazon Games‘ MMO Lost Ark, nearly two million people have taken advantage of the exclusive in-game content. Before March arrives, there’s only a limited time for members to claim the offer.Content for Red Dead Redemption Online, Dead By Deadlight, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Legends of Runeterra, Doom Eternal, and Grand Theft Auto Online content will also be offered to members.

Hearthstone streamer Alexandra Alliestrasza Macpherson was swatted mid-stream, with police handcuffing her and her family.Macpherson is one of the most prominent female Hearthstone streamers on Twitch, and last night (February 9) her stream was interrupted by a police raid. The police were there because someone had filed a false report that was serious enough to warrant a fully armed response, specifically to target the Streamer during their broadcast. The practice is known as swatting.After a commotion was heard in Macpherson’s house, she left the room, until a group of three armed officers can be seen moving through the house and clearing the room used for streaming (as reported by PCGamer).Macpherson returned to the stream 25-minutes later and said, “I’m gonna turn the stream off now.

Twitch users have been asking for a disability pride month where disabled content creators are promoted more often.As spotted by Eurogamer, Twitch streamer queerlybee created an item of Twitch user voice, a platform where Twitch users can suggest things to the streaming service platform. The suggestion titled “Add disability month front page features” has almost 500 votes within a day of being posted (January 18).In it they ask for greater promotion of disabled streamers like themself, similar to how queer creators are promoted during pride month.“Twitch does an excellent job curating teams and featuring marginalized creators on the front page during identity based pride months.

Pokémon speedrunner have beaten Pokémon Crystal including Red in under a day and a half.Fans of partnered Twitch streamer and YouTube content creator 360Chrism have been playing Pokémon Crystal randomiser for the last day and a half and they have already beaten Red.

Twitch co-founder Justin Kan – lost £113,061 ($150,000) after its Discord bot was hacked to sell fraudulent NFTs.The scammer targeted users in Fractal’s Discord server by hacking the server’s official bot.

Twitch, as they and many other marginalised groups continue to be targeted.Speaking to NBC News, drag performer Elix, who boasts almost 60,000 followers on Twitch described the moment she was targeted by swatters.“I’m shook. I’m gooped.

Streamlabs has come under fire from streamers and streaming platforms who claim Streamlabs Studios is similar to other products.Twitch recently announced that it would be partnering with Streamlabs to launch Streamlabs Studio – allowing Xbox Twitch users to create custom overlays, alerts, and presets.But Streamlabs has been called out by other platforms for allegedly ‘copying’ their software and marketing.“The team at @streamlabs should be ashamed,” said Lightstream CEO Stu Grubbs.

Halo Infinite multiplayer has been making serious waves on Steam.The 343 Industries title has hit a peak concurrent player count of 272,586 in its first day according to SteamDB, with Twitch viewers peaking at 246,945 as well.

Dead By Daylight streamers are being DDoS’d, doxxed, and swatted thanks to a problem that reveals IP addresses.Dead By Daylight has an issue that appears to allow IP addresses to become public. Some people have been using them to target those streaming the game.

Twitch has finally come to the Nintendo Switch with a new app debuting on the Nintendo eShop right now.Twitch has already existed on other platforms such as PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S for years.

Twitch has announced a new programme that is specifically aimed at supporting musicians on its streaming platform.The programme, called The Collective, is a scheme that will group together selected musicians into invite-only collectives (hence the name).

NFT of herself for over £90,000.The NFT of the popular Twitch steamer went on sale a few days ago and was already valued at a bid of $120,000 by November 5. As Siragusa said in a tweet, “Wow, an NFT of me is currently bid up to $120k… I guess I’ll be doing this again lol.”Part of the OnlyPunks NFT collection, the streamer’s NFT is just one of many NSFW NFTs to be sold.