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World Of Warcraft Classic: The Burning Crusade has had a huge impact on the franchise’s Twitch presence, according to information from StreamElements, featuring data from Rainmaker.gg.Hours watched of World Of Warcraft on Twitch increased by 56 per cent in June, whilst the game’s most popular streamer Zack “Asmongold” had their hours grow 53 per cent, to 7.6million.

Twitch streamer Summit1g has set a new speed run world record in Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 by a margin of fewer than seven seconds.On June 2, popular Twitch streamer Summit1g beat Max Payne 3 in 1 hour, 30 minutes, 51 seconds, and 088 microseconds, as seen on Speedrun.com. The run was completed on hardcore difficulty with no glitches and cutscene skip allowed.

Riot Games has released a collection of free music for streamers and creators to use, called Sessions: Vi. The 37-track album can be streamed from Youtube and Spotify, with similar musical projects in the works, according to Riot Games.

Fortnite pro player to join the football club’s Esports team.To enter, player’s need to fill in this form and include a Fortnite compilation of two minutes max. Applicants must also be at least 16 years old.

Rainmaker.gg the growth of people watching ASMR on Twitch has been huge from 2020 to 2021.Rainmaker.gg’s data also claims that between May and June this year, hours of ASMR watched per day has increased by 38%, from 212,000 to 292,000.

Twitch has banned one of its most popular streamers, Llanos ‘Ibai‘ Garatea, after someone else showed their naked rear on stream.This will be Garatea’s third ban on the platform. The incident occurred after Ibai was hosting a “battle of wits” between two people and as GamingBible pointed out, it looks to be some sort of roasting battle.After some verbal exchange, one of them turns towards the camera and exposes their bottom.

Twitch streamer Kiaraakitty has denied accusations of conning multiple men in a money-making scam.The young streamer had already been banned twice in recent months when a phone call was leaked to YouTube by an anonymous source, claiming that the audio recorded her admitting she had been involved in a series of love scams.But the 18-year-old streamer, who has over 214,000 followers on Twitch, has denied the story as “false and staged” and says she has reported it to the police.In the recorded

Twitch is warning streamers on its live streaming platform that more DMCA content takedowns could be coming soon.As reported by Kotaku, Twitch has released an email to streamers explaining that it believes music publishers are using automated tools to find stream content with copyrighted content, and that “all claims are for VODs”.Twitch wrote: “We are committed to being more transparent with you about DMCA.

Twitch has announced that it will be adding over 350 new community tags to its platform in order to improve inclusivity.In a new blog post, Twitch confirmed that next week, streamers will be able to select from 350+ new tags related to gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ability, mental health and more.The live streaming platform also shared some examples of tags that will be on the list, including transgender, Black, disabled, veteran, and Vtuber.Twitch also announced that it will

Twitch has launched a brand new ‘hot tubs’ streaming category following a recent controversy and pushback from advertisers.Earlier this week, Twitch removed advertisement monetisation from one of the platform’s top female streamers, Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, after her streams were deemed “not advertiser-friendly” after she was taking part in the trend dubbed the “hot tub meta”.The conversation has also caused confusion as Twitch has strict guidelines when it comes to sexually suggestive

Twitch has announced a change to subscription prices to make them “equally affordable” across the world.The subscription streaming service will be rolling these new ‘local prices’ out slowly, with Mexico and Turkey benefitting from the first change on May 20. Other countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East will see changes coming into place by Q3 of 2021.The Twitch model has, up until now, set a Tier 1 subscription fee at the equivalent of $4.99 in every country.

tweeted one detractor of the controversial phenomenon. The practice exploded in popularity following the 2018 debut of the “Just Chatting” feature, which permitted Twitch users to speak directly with audiences, Insider reported.Dubbed “hot tub meta,” the trend entails scantily clad women earning cash by sitting in hot tubs while playing video games or even just responding to messages in real time, the Sun reported.

Twitch‘s new misconduct policy, the platform will ban users for harassment – even if it takes place outside of their site.Twitch has released its updated misconduct policy and it contains several changes that will go towards battling how the site will handle hateful conduct and harassment by users.Twitch began enforcing its Hateful Conduct and Harassment policy, but the updated version has been updated to be more clear and consistent.The new statement reads: “Our current guidelines state that in

Jimmy Fallon is set to making his streaming debut on Twitch later today with Among Us.The news was shared by IGN, which revealed that Fallon’s Twitch debut will take place today, April 6, at 6:45pm ET (11:45pm BST) via Fallon’s official Twitch channel.

Twitch streamer Ludwig Ahgren has been live streaming his daily life for almost 17 days, but the end looks to be in sight.Ludwig began his never-ending “subathon” stream on March 14, where 20 seconds would be originally added to the length of his stream for every new viewer who subscribed to his channel.After 2 weeks of streaming, the final hours of the Ludwig’s subathon have begun.

Twitch streamer Ludwig has been live on the broadcast platform for over two weeks, promising 20 seconds for every subscription purchased.Ludwig was already one of Twitch’s top streamers, coming in at the 11th most popular English-speaking channel, but his latest experiment has caused a surge in channel subscriptions.

first reported by PC Gamer.Dubbed “Sit Back, Relax and Chill its a vibe in here,” the stream was expected to be a laidback broadcast with the perennially-stoned celeb. But when a third touchdown brought the score to 21-0, sealing his inevitable defeat, the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” rapper did just that — threw off his gear and stormed out of the game.“Look at this s- -t.

Twitch has announced a new code of conduct, aimed at eliminating harassment of streamers and viewers.The new policy covers behaviour, language, and symbols, and will go into effect from January 22, 2021. Twitch also specified in the policy that “no exceptions will be made for public figures.”DDoS attacks, hacking, doxxing, or swatting, are now explicitly prohibited.

Fortnite and Minecraft streamer was banned from Twitch with no apparent warning. This marks the latest in a long string of bans related to DMCA violations.Read More: Twitch confirms digital GlitchCon event for November“Cizzorz” had over 1.5million followers on the platform prior to being scrubbed from Twitch.

Animal Crossing.“Biden Island,” as the promotional site built by his campaign is called, features trains, lots of dogs, and a red, white and blue garden outside its own “White House,” Gamespot.com reports.There is even a suited, aviator glasses-wearing Joe Biden wandering around the place, telling visitors “No malarky” if they try to interact.  The island also includes a wide range of Biden/Harris merchandise for players to acquire.“The Joe Biden campaign put some serious work into its island,”

Queerantine has opened a unique conduit of connection for its growing community of fans.

The Ellen Degeneres Show star Stephen ‘Twitch’ Boss has spoken out about allegations against the TV host.Ellen has come under fire over numerous allegations of a “toxic” work environment from former employees, and recently released a statement, admitting she was “sorry” about the alleged incidents.While the comic has said little more on the matter, Boss, who has been the DJ on the talk show since 2014, told US Weekly that he legally couldn’t say much on the matter, but confirmed he is still

Amazon has dropped the Twitch name from its subscription offering as the tech giant focuses on growing the Prime brand.

Enjoyed his content from afar these past years. I can't believe what happened.

known as Blue, confirmed his death, reportedly by suicide, on Thursday.Byron’s reps didn’t respond to a request for comment.His Twitter feed early Thursday morning included troubling messages that his fans responded to with concern.In January, he shared in a YouTube video that his brother died by suicide, but said that he was improving since then. “I am actually day-to-day happy,” he said in the video.

The big kahuna among this weekend’s music live-streams is a half-day marathon Saturday being put on by Twitch.

Stars including Ellie Goulding, John Legend and Rita Ora are among the stars who will take part in a charity live stream for the response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Diplo, Barry Gibb, Ryan Tedder, Lauv, Charlie Puth, Die Antwoord, and many more have joined Twitch Stream Aid, a 12-hour charity stream kicking off this Saturday, March 28 at 9:00 AM PST on twitch.tv/twitch co-presented with Amazon Music. The livestream will benefit the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization. (See the full lineup in the poster below.)