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Ditto Promotes Accessible Finance for Streaming Artists with the Launch of Defi Platform
2.2.2021
Global music distribution service Ditto has unveiled the latest addition to its service lineup for musicians with a blockchain-based financing platform named Opulous. Opulous Peer-to-Peer Lending Platform Serves as a Loan Pool Designed to Help Artists Ditto continues its efforts to improve...
Get All Your Streaming Apps in a Row With This 58" Westinghouse 4K Roku TV for $300
2.2.2021
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Twitch Embeds Keep Getting Worse
1.2.2021
In the past couple months, the experience of watching Twitch via third-party sites or tools like MultiTwitch has become... fraught. A purple screen sometimes obscures whatever you’re watching. It implores you to tune in on Twitch dot television instead. Eventually, it disappears. Then, every...
Twitch Is Cracking Down On Small (But Not Big) Streamers Who Made Channels Before They Turned 13
27.1.2021
AverageHarry, a 15 year-old aspiring Twitch streamer from the UK, was in spitting distance of his dream. He’d had a breakout 2020, amassing an audience of nearly 90,000 followers, somewhat ironically off the back of a viral clip in which randos in a hotel lobby made fun of him for streaming. Late...
Pixar's Soul Was a Massive Streaming Hit Over the Holidays
23.1.2021
Well, we can’t do
box office numbers. So we’re doing this now. Read more
Rust, As Told By Steam Reviews
20.1.2021
If you even casually follow the Grimace-colored streaming monolith that is Twitch, you’re well aware that the current flavor of the month is Rust, a survival game that originally came out in 2013. This means new players are discovering the genre oldtimer for the first time. While some enjoy...
All the Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Films to Look Forward to in 2021...Hopefully
14.1.2021
You are not experiencing déjà vu. A huge percentage of films from our 2020 movie preview are once again here on our 2021 preview. But the good news is, there’s still a lot of great stuff to look forward to.Read more
Coheed And Cambria Frontman Writes Mournful Song About PlayStation 5 Shortages
14.1.2021
I want a PlayStation 5. I have tried on multiple occasions to acquire a PlayStation 5. I do not have a PlayStation 5. At the rate things are going, these words will likely be the first in my autobiography and on my tombstone—and perhaps yours as well. It is only right, then, that somebody...
Twitch's Pogchamp Removal Was Never Enough, And Now It's Turning Into A Disaster
12.1.2021
It’s not every day you hear about an enormous platform like Twitch swatting the face of one of its most popular emotes clean off and rendering the president’s account indefinitely inert, as it did in the aftermath of last week’s Capitol Building insurrection. But Twitch does do similar things from...
Spanish Streamer TheGrefg Obliterates All-Time Twitch Viewership Record
11.1.2021
For years now, Twitch’s record for most concurrent viewers on a single streamer’s channel has been hotly contested, with streamers topping each other in slow-building increments. Today, however, Spanish streamer TheGrefg made everybody else look like they’d been wrestling for discarded peanut...
Otterbox Is Making Mobile Gaming Gear Now
11.1.2021
Otterbox, one of the biggest names in phone and tablet cases, has teamed up with Microsoft to create a new line of clips, cases, and grips aimed at making the most of mobile gaming services like Xbox Game Streaming and Apple Arcade.Read more
Early WandaVision Impressions Suggest the Marvel Series Is as Good as It Is Weird
9.1.2021
Critics have seen the first three episodes of WandaVision, the upcoming Marvel Studios Disney+ series starring Scarlet Witch and the Vision as they take on their greatest challenge yet: the sitcom. Which means we’ve got impressions. Read more
Twitch Will Have A Different Pogchamp Emote Every 24 Hours From Now On
8.1.2021
Earlier this week, Twitch removed its extremely popular Pogchamp emote, which is used to express excitement in chat, after the face of the emote, Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, encouraged further “civil unrest” after the insurrection at the Capitol Building. Now, just two days later, it’s replaced...
Tron’s DLive platform under fire for live streaming US Capitol extremists
8.1.2021
The crypto-powered streaming platform DLive has come under fire after far-right extremists used the service to live stream this week’s violent insurrection in the U.S. Capitol
Twitch Suspends Donald Trump's Channel To Prevent Him From Inciting 'Further Violence'
7.1.2021
In the wake of yesterday’s violent, conspiracy-fueled insurrection at the Capitol Building, Twitch has elected to disable Donald Trump’s Twitch account.Read more
Twitch Removes "PogChamp" Emote
7.1.2021
Twitch has removed the extremely popular “Pogchamp” emote from its service after the man featured in it, streamer Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, tweeted some Extremely Bad Shit about the events currently unfolding in Washington.Read more
Transformers Just Shook Up Its Lore in a Wild Way
6.1.2021
Transformers is a franchise that from the get-go has almost been ceaselessly fascinated with its past. The long shadow of the fabled “G1” era—from its design sensibilities to its origin deep-dives—has cast a long shadow over so much of what has come since, including Netflix’s latest re-litigation...
What Even Is a Hit Anymore?
1.1.2021
“I want the world to know, that Billboard is a lie. You can buy No. 1s on Billboard,” is how rapper troll 6ix9ine kicked off an Instagram video he posted in May of this year. His purpose was to allege that he had been cheated out of reaching the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, the most trusted...
The Nerd's Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in January
28.12.2020
Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to the global pandemic, and the plethora of services can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month, most streamers do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away, and io9 is here to help with your...
Wonder Woman 1984 Has One Great Thing Going for It
28.12.2020
Wonder Woman 1984 has been quite the lightning rod since its release. On the one hand, there’s the epic scope, complex romance, rousing score, and positive messages. It also has an incredible cast including Gal Gadot, Kirsten Wiig, Chris Pine, and Pedro Pascal. On the other hand, some have...