by Jordan Love | Apr 2, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section, Videogames
It’s been a busy couple days for Twitch. First, it was revealed that they laid off several employees (including at least one high-profile one) in a bid to reprioritize other departments. At the same time, people were asking if their most popular streamer, Ninja, would...
by Jordan Love | Mar 29, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section, Videogames
Ninja may or may not have used the n-word while rapping a Logic song during a recent streaming session with Matthew Haag (Nadeshot). Ninja characterizes his language as a misunderstanding and suggests that he was merely "tongue-tied" and fumbled the lyrics. Though it...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 24, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section
Allied Esports – the group behind many of the esports arenas scattered across California – has been teasing about their new arena at Las Vegas’s Luxor casino for some time. The arena premiered with Rocket League matches and SMITE teams facing off against one another...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 23, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section
Twitch is constantly working to change their platform for streamers. Sometimes that is with more controversial moves like the new Terms of Service, but more often the updates are geared at helping streamers and their audiences. Last year, Twitch unveiled a slew of...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 20, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section
Twitch is all about promoting positive streaming experiences. In fact, they are currently hosting a reality-show like contest all about promoting the best qualities in streamers. The streamer that wins the contest will be awarded $60k a year to stream. But despite...
by Arden Terry | Feb 24, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section, Videogames
Popular Twitch streamer Phantoml0rd filed a lawsuit against Twitch on February 14. The lawsuit was filed in the city of San Francisco with the Superior Court of California. Twitch now has 30 days to respond to the case. Back in July 2016, James “Phantoml0rd” Varga was...
by Jordan Love | Feb 19, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section, Videogames
We covered the new Twitch Community Guidelines update last week, which primarily takes aim at fixing the streaming service's problems with harassment and overly-sexualized content. Since announcing the update, Twitch has received a considerable amount of backlash for...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Feb 13, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section, Videogames
Following several lawsuits in the past year against bot makers as well as legal action against trolls, Twitch has been looking for new ways to improve their community and make it a safer place. Well, a few days ago Twitch announced new guideline updates, some of which...
by Jordan Love | Feb 5, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section, Videogames
He's back and breaking stuff already. The infamous Dr. DisRespect made his return on Monday and crashed Twitch in doing so. DisRespect recently announced that he'd be returning to the platform at 11 am pst on February 5, after a nearly two month absence. As it turns...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jan 31, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section, Videogames
Facebook isn’t done with streaming yet. In 2016, the company launched Facebook live, and while it had some newsworthy issues of how Facebook is monitoring and controlling content, it has also made strides to become a home for esports. Facebook has since signed...
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