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Twitch Is Shutting Down In Korea Next February

Sad news for South Korean Twitch streamers working for the platform, or using the platform for their own needs: the service will be shutting down next year. According to an official post, Twitch in Korea will be shutting down on 27 February 2024 KST. The big reason is due to cost: it's expensive to run a big service like Twitch in Korea, especia...

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Chess Grandmaster & Streamer Hikaru Nakamura Moves From Twitch To Kick

So, big news in the streaming world! Kick.com, the streaming service owned by Steak.com, just announced that they've signed on Chess Grandmaster and Twitch streamer, Hikaru Nakamura. Apparently, Hikaru will be going live on Wednesday, 29 March at 11:00 AM (EST). This news has been spreading like wildfire on social media platforms like Reddit and Tw...

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Arief Johan’s Top 5 Southeast Asian Games He Enjoyed & Loved

Here's one of our guest posts for the end of 2022 from our lovely pals and industry friends. Go check out Arief's work at Twitch.tv.  To say that 2022 has been an eventful year in the Southeast Asian games industry is a deep understatement. This year we’ve seen everything from the return of major in-person trade shows like Gamescom Asia, Leve...

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Overwatch Has Reached 1.5 Million Concurrent Views On Twitch; Highest Day Ever

Blizzard has announcecd that its multiplayer shooter Overwatch has reached a Twitch viewership milestone. Overwatch has reached over 1.5 million concurrent views, the highest day ever for the series on Twitch. This is due to the recent release of the Overwatch 2 beta PvP, not to mention the many people watching other influencers and pro players ...

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[Report] Twitch Source Code & User Payouts Leaked

An anonymous hacker claims to have leaked the entirety of Twitch.tv, perhaps the largest video game livestream company around that's owned by Amazon. When the hacker means "entirety", it means the app's entire source code and user payout information (via videogameschronicle.com). The user allegedly posted a 125GB torrent link to 4chan recently. ...

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Twitch Bans The Word “Simp”, Word Usage Doubles A Few Days After

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’...

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Twitch Is Issuing Licensed Music DMCA Strikes On Gaming Channels & Clips

An apocalypse is happening right now, and it's involving gaming's biggest livestream service and its plethora of users and their precious clips. Over the weekend, Twitch.tv has declared that it will be issuing licensed music-related DMCA strikes on gaming channels that have clips and VODs that feature licensed music playing in the background. This...

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Watch Speedrunners Marathon Through Games For Coronavirus Relief

This year's Summer Games Done Quick by the folks from GDQ is pushed back to August due to COVID-19 coronavirus concerns, but that doesn't mean there wouldn't be any speedrunning marathon action. In fact, from today until Monday morning 20th April, GDQ will be running an online speedrunning marathon called Corona Relief Done Quick. All donations an...

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Twitch Sells Curse Media To Fandom; Are Game Wikis Being Monopolized?

If you've been searching for protips online or even some backstory for an obscure video game character, chances are you've been on wiki site Fandom. The company that runs these information hubs is now acquiring Curse Media, the guys who run gaming wiki sites like Gamepedia via Twitch. According to Kotaku, Fandom has signed a "definitive agreement ...

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Fortnite Rules Streaming Scene – Yet to Break Into Esports Realm

Do Fortnite and esports go together like peanut butter and bread? At this point in time, we're not sure. The latest data from Newzoo, a video games market intelligence for games, esports, and mobile, shows that while Fortnite rules the streaming realm thanks to its popularity, the game is still a way off from being globally accepted as an esp...

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