How One Valorant Clip Kickstarted A Conversation About Sexism In Competitive Games
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by Alyssa Mercante
1w ago
Last summer, I reported on major studios’ valiant (but still lacking) efforts to combat toxic voice chat (of which women are often the target) in popular competitive games like Overwatch 2, Call of Duty, and Apex Legends. And though Riot Games, the studio behind the 5v5 competitive hero shooter Valorant, is one of the… Read more ..read more
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Twitch Streamer Crashes Car While Streaming
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by Zack Zwiezen
2w ago
On April 1, Twitch streamer and content creator MeltIsLIVE, aka Melt, was involved in a car crash while driving and using his phone during an “in real life” (IRL) stream. While it appears nobody was seriously injured, Melt was seemingly banned from Twitch due to his behavior. Read more ..read more
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Popular Streamer xQc Gets Banned From DayZ Server
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by Levi Winslow
2w ago
Controversial Kick streamer Felix “xQc” Lengyel has found himself not welcomed in the DayZ community. An admin in one of the multiplayer zombie survival game’s popular servers recently banned him, with his status as a streamer seeming the likely reason. Read more ..read more
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Elder Scrolls VI Playable, Shakeups At Nintendo, And More Of The Week's Gaming News
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by Kotaku Staff
3w ago
This week’s gaming news was far-ranging in its nature and its implications. We got reports that Pedro Pascal has already wrapped up shooting on season two of HBO’s The Last of Us, heard rumblings that some publishers are unsure if supporting Xbox continues to make sense for them, and got our first look at Marvel Rivals… Read more ..read more
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Twitch Bans Using ‘Intimate’ Body Parts As Green Screens
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by Levi Winslow
3w ago
Amazon-owned livestreaming platform Twitch has disciplined content creators again. Just as a new meta began dominating the site earlier this month, in which streamers started playing games like Fortnite on green-screened boobs and butts, Twitch has updated its Terms of Service to strictly prohibit this kind of risque… Read more ..read more
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Valkyrae On The Family Plan, Working Retail, And How To Stream Authentically
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by Steven Asarch
2M ago
Rachell Hofstetter always wants to do more. With four million subscribers on YouTube, the streamer known as Valkyrae has become one of the top women creators in gaming since she started back in 2015. Viewers can’t get enough of her bubbly personality and quirky antics, devouring her streams as she trash-talks in Valora… Read more ..read more
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State of Play, Switch 2, And More Of The Week's Biggest Gaming News
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by Kotaku Staff
2M ago
We’re starting to get a much clearer look at the 2024 gaming calendar, after the Xbox Developer Direct on January 18 and now Sony’s State of Play event on January 31. The Sony event gave us an in-depth look at Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding sequel, On The Beach, and boy was there a lot going on. We also got a teensy… Read more ..read more
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Pokimane Leaves Twitch After A Decade With The Streaming Platform
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by Levi Winslow
2M ago
One of Twitch’s most popular ladies won’t be streaming on the platform where she first became a star anymore. Calling it “the end of an era, Imane “Pokimane” Anys announced her departure from the Amazon-owned site in an X/Twitter post on January 30. Accompanying the tweet was an official promotional image of the… Read more ..read more
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PlayStation’s State Of Play: How To Watch And What To Expect
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by Claire Jackson
3M ago
It’s that time again: PlayStation’s State of Play is back on January 31, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. ET to show off more games you can expect to be playing soon on that pretty PS5 of yours. And with a 40-minute showing, it’ll be a bit longer than usual this time. Here’s where you can watch it and what you can expect to see… Read more ..read more
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Palworld vs. Nintendo, Holodeck Tech, And More Of The Week's Biggest News
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by Kotaku Staff
3M ago
It’s already been eight whole years since Final Fantasy XV, and its ending still gets us all choked up just thinking about it. Read on for all things Palworldand the highly unusual tale of mobile gameLove Live! School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live. Read more ..read more
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