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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.

Twitch data breach, a prominent money laundering scheme on the platform has been exposed – with one Turkish politician calling for it to be investigated “immediately”.In the fallout of Twitch’s data breach, a money laundering ring has been exposed that Middle East Eye reports (thanks, PC Gamer) secured criminals nearly $10million (£7.3million).It was noticed when the data breach revealed that numerous lesser-known streamers in Turkey were raising large amounts of Bits – a Twitch currency used to

New World streamer was banned mid-stream for what looks like using macros and openly breaking rules for the Amazon Game Studios title.Streamer Alexandru “SOLIDFPS” Cotiga was banned mid-stream yesterday (November 2) whilst playing New World, and you can see the ban live on his Twitch stream at the six hour mark. Cotiga received a 23 hour ban for “cheating” according to the on screen message.Cotiga is also a member of TSM, an esports organisation based in the United States.

Twitch streamer Lydia Ellery, who has worked with the username Squid Game for the last 11 years, says she has lost “amazing presenting opportunities” and faced abuse due to her handle pre-dating the Netflix show Squid Game.Ellery – who has streamed with the name Squid Game on Twitch for 11 years – has revealed that she is considering changing her handle, due to issues she has received because of the new popularity of Netflix show Squid game.Taking to Twitter yesterday (November 2), Ellery said

Twitch streamer Tyler “Trainwrecks” Niknam has responded to his alleged ban from Nicholas “Nickmercs” Kolcheff’s Apex Legends tournament, which was apparently due to gambling concerns.The $50,000 (roughly £36,000) tournament is hosted by Kolcheff in association with both EA and developer Respawn Entertainment, and has a whole host of streamers involved.

Twitch streamer and ex-Overwatch league player xQc rages after being cheated out of a win in a fan-made Squid Game.As reported by Dexerto, the event occurred during his latest stream, where Felix “xQc” Lengyel was playing a fan-made recreation of the popular Netflix show Squid Game.

Twitch streamer Shroud thinks that players will be waiting “years” for mounts to come to the massively multiplayer online game, New World.As of right now, Amazon Game Studios‘ New World doesn’t have any way of using mounts in the game.

Twitch‘s new paid boost feature has reportedly gone live, amidst backlash from the streaming community.According to journalist Zach Bussey (thanks, Eurogamer), the feature, which is still in a testing phase and currently limited to US viewers, went live yesterday (October 28).Bussey noted that there are three tiers of boost available: US$0.99 for 1000 recommendations, US$2.97 for 3000, and US$4.95 for 5000.

Twitch streamer Imane ‘Pokimane’ Anys has inadvertently revealed that she co-owns Evo (Evolution Championship Series), the biggest fighting game tournament in the world.Yesterday (October 27), Pokimane announced that she is the co-founder and chief creative officer of RTS, a “talent management and brand consulting firm” that aims to “fix the gaming and esports industry”.As PC Gamer reported, RTS bought Evo in March and now runs the event alongside Sony.

Twitch streamer Sweatcicle told viewers that they had two minutes to contribute to the delivery driver’s tip, causing fans to pitch in and give the driver some extra cash.As spotted by Dexerto, yesterday (October 24), Sweatcicle was streaming Destiny 2 when, while ordering his pizza on stream, he told viewers that any money raised through subs within two minutes would go straight to the delivery driver’s tip.Sweatcicle’s viewers didn’t disappoint, and by the time it was ordered, fans had raised

Twitch has revealed that it will be testing a brand new rewind stream feature that could eventually come to the platform in the future.In a new Twitter post, the Twitch Support account shared the news explaining that it will be testing the new feature, as well as a ‘Remind Me’ and ‘Watch Trailer’ button, over the next month on certain channels.“Over the next month, some viewers may see up to 3 new buttons on live channels pages: Rewind the Stream, Remind Me, & Watch Trailer,” the post reads.

streaming gamer platform kept a “do not ban” list for their most popular streamers.

Twitch kept a “do not ban” list filled with popular streamers, meaning that high-profile figures on the site could not be easily banned by an admin.As reported by Washington Post (thanks, PC Gamer), one former Twitch admin confirmed a “do not ban” list was used to prevent streamers from being suspended “for doing something dumb”.The ‘do not ban’ list was discovered within the recent security breach at Twitch, which caused large parts of the site – including streamer’s financial earnings, source

ThatnerdTY, a Twitch streamer with over 9000 viewers was left shocked when a random spawn in Minecraft led to him beginning his speed-run attempt on a literal “L”.In the clip, ThatnerdTy takes a look at his surroundings, which are mostly water, before looking down at the small mass of land upon which he spawned. “Are you fucking serious dude?” he said as he noticed his unfortunate location.“I hate this game” he continued, bursting into laughter as his chat did the same.

GTA Online Twitch streamers claim to have been the victims of DDOS attacks.As spotted by RockstarIntel, DarkViperAU, a popular GTA V streamer who specialises in speedrunning the game, has shared his frustrations with the state of the online security in Rockstar’s mega-hit.GTA Online, which in the last month has averaged over 300,000 players per day, relies on peer-to-peer connections for its online blockbuster.

security breach earlier this week (October 6), Twitch has announced that it has reset all users’ stream keys “out of an abundance of caution”.Twitch had contacted its users yesterday (October 7) to alert them of the update, although the information can also be found on an official blog post.A stream key is required by streamers in order to set up their streaming software, such as Streamlabs OBS or Wirecast, to Twitch.According to Business Insider, a Twitch stream key lets the software know where

CtrlAltQuin took part in last year’s programme and says,“Being a part of the StreamElements program has been a massive learning experience, especially having the opportunity to connect and learn from industry professionals,” she said. “As a black, trans content creator it has been very hard to find organizations that truly understand and want to uplift marginalized voices.

Twitch data leak of around 125GB of information security experts have been weighing in on the situation.Archie Agarwal, founder and CEO of ThreatModeler, which tests and assesses possible cyber security breaches, shared his concern over the leak with ThreatPost calling it “as bad as it could possibly be.”“Reading of a data breach that includes the entire source code, including unreleased software, SDKs, financial reports and internal red-teaming tools will send a shudder down any hardened

Twitch has confirmed the data leak which occurred yesterday (October 6) was the result of an attack from an outside source who exploited a change in the server configuration.In a short blog post by the streaming platform, Twitch confirmed that it is still in the process of investigating the impact of the leak, and that a server configuration change was accessed by a “malicious third party”.The company further elaborated that so far log in details have remained private, and that credit card

Twitch to do protect users from harmful content.As reported by BBC News, these platforms – which include Twitch, TikTok, Snapchat, and Vimeo – must take “appropriate measures” to protect users from content related to terrorism, child sexual abuse, and racism, with the regulator claiming, “a third of users have seen hateful content on such sites.”Under the new rules, sites like Twitch will have to provide and effectively enforce clear rules for uploading content, make the reporting and complaints

Twitch, including its source code, user payout information, and encrypted passwords.As reported in VGC, the hacker posted a 125GB torrent link to the online forum 4chan this morning (October 6) with the intent to “foster more disruption and competition in the online video streaming space” because “their community is a disgusting toxic cesspool”.According to the 4chan post, the leak reportedly includes the following:The 4chan post also included the #DoBetterTwitch hashtag, similar to the hashtag

Twitch, owned by Amazon, is trialing a new ‘Boost’ feature, available in beta only to a limited number of creators, that will allow channel viewers to purchase advertising by promoting streamers on Twitch’s front page.Boosting isn’t entirely new. It was trialed in December 2020, when viewers could use Channel Points, a currency earned by watching a stream, to promote their favourite channels on the front page.

Twitch has released a new suite of verification-based tools in a bid to help combat the growing problem of hate raiding on the streaming network.Following protest action by Twitch streamers earlier this month, Twitch said it was “working hard on improved channel-level ban evasion detection and additional account improvements to help make Twitch a safer place for creators.” This has led to the new tools which are focused on phone and email verification as explained by a Twitch announcement

inaugural virtual event earlier this year, the Gayming Awards will return in 2022 with an in-person event“I’m delighted and honoured to be able to bring back the Gayming Awards for a second year,” said Robin Gray, founder of Gayming Magazine, about the announcement.“We were blown away by the amount of support year one got both by fans and sponsors, it really shows the value in an awards show dedicated to queer excellence in video games.”Taking place April 2022, the in-person ceremony will take

Los Campesinos! has given Twitch some credit for the extended success of the band in a recent interview.In the interview, with Last Donut Of The Night, David suggested that the continued popularity of the band, along with new Los Campesinos! fans, might partially have been influenced by Twitch streamers.