For the first time ever, Twitch viewership saw stagnation in place of growth in the second quarter of 2019. Twitch states that viewers watched 2.706 billion hours of content, compared to 2.762 billion in the first quarter, based on a report from Steamlabs and Newzoo. The difference accounts for a 2% drop in the numbers, which may not alarm many, but represents the first downward trend for the platform after many years of nothing but gains....
The live streaming video platform Twitch has announced that it will be hosting a marathon of the beloved children’s television program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood for 18 days straight, starting on May 15 at 12:00 PM PT / 9:00 AM ET / 8:00 AM CT. All 886 episodes from the entire series will be streamed live on Twitch’s site. Interestingly enough, the marathon is set to feature episodes that only aired once which aren’t available online anywhere else, with Twitch planning to stream additional mini-marathons to follow....
The big talk in Destiny 2: Beyond Light has been loot. On the one hand, Legendary Lost Sectors and new Exotic Quests have been quite well received, but on the other hand, the world loot pool has felt pretty barren for what is ostensibly a looter shooter. So before Bungie heads into their holiday break, assistant game director Joe Blackburn gives Destiny 2 fans an early This Week At Bungie update to talk about what’s coming in Season 13....
The Uncharted series has been dormant for years by this point. And yet, it feels up to date for fans due to the great replay value the games carry. Nathan Drake is a protagonist who doesn’t have many haters thanks to his everyman persona. In fact, fans would love to see another game starring the character. However, all this good press masks the truth that Nathan has done a lot of bad things in his time....
Borderlands 3 players have another chance to get some Golden Keys with a new Shift code. The code can be redeemed for 3 keys at the chest in Sanctuary, but can only be used for a limited time. This code expires Monday, August 31 at 10 am CT, so Borderlands 3 players need to hurry and grab their loot. While the Borderlands 3 Year 1 Celebration is almost done, there is still plenty of loot to go around....
It looks like Riot Games accidentally released the patch notes (now taken down) for the Valorant 2.6 patch early on the Valorant website. The patch is not yet live in the game at the time of writing but is scheduled to go live soon, probably later this week. The 2.6 patch tweaks a lot of stuff in the game including some buffs for agents like Yoru and Viper, and some KillJoy changes as well....
Valve has happily parted with the sum of £15,000 after a hacker let them know there was a glitch that could allow persons to generate thousands of free keys for any Game on Steam. Artem Markowsky, a self-proclaimed “bug hunter”, has been doing this sort of research since his school days and has made a job out of finding and reporting flaws. He stumbled upon the bug in August while looking through the Steam developer site and discovered that it was quite easy to alter parameters in the API request to get activation keys for any game selected as a result....
Every Kevin Smith movie in chronological order Mallrats (1995) Jason Lee and Jeremey London star as Brodie and TS, mallrats who literally spend all day at the mall. Clerks (1994) Clerks shows a day in the life of Quick Stop clerks Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randall (Jeff Anderson). Chasing Amy (1997) Comic book artist Holden (Ben Affleck) falls for another artist, Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), but she is a lesbian....
Warframe is heading to deep space with their upcoming Empyrean expansion. To be fair to Warframe, the ongoing space-ninja saga has always been about bouncing around the solar system, but the space portion of the game has previously been kept away from players. Outside of the game’s Archwing sessions, which were never all that popular among Warframe’s adherents, space was a place you saw through a window just before you disemboweled someone and covered that window in blood....
It has been confirmed that the Black Ops Cold War version of Warzone will not be shifted to the new Black Ops - Cold War engine. While it may seem obvious, we finally have first confirmation that Warzone will not see an engine shift when it moves over to Black Ops Cold War later this year. An Activision art lead on confirmed on the Resetera message board that there will be no shift....
There’s a lot to love about inXile’s Wasteland 3. The strategic combat constantly kept me on my toes. I was consistently surprised by the twists the story took and the choices it offered. And I could easily spend a couple dozen more hours customizing the perfect squad of Desert Rangers. But if I had to pick my favorite part this latest post-apocalyptic RPG, it would have to be God-President Reagan. The AI of the former president is housed in a 50-foot tall, combat-ready statue that’s attended to by a cult that carries out its every whim....
After a bumpy start back in 2012, Diablo 3 has gradually become the dungeon crawling experience that gamers know and love. It took the dissolution of the real money trading house, a bunch of bug fixes, and some launch-day problems to get there, but finally Diablo 3 is in state that fans can approve of. Diablo 3’s stability couldn’t have come at a better time either, as the launch of the Reaper of Souls expansion has further developed the mechanics and lore of the sequel, along with introducing a new Adventure mode and a new Crusader class....
In 2010, a group of talented speed runners from the Speed Demos Archive came together to show off their skills on a marathon Twitch stream and raise some money for charity in the process. The event was a huge success — and in the five years since, it has grown exponentially. The first weekend raised a little more than $10,000, which was enough for a follow-up event in 2011. The second marathon raised in excess of $50,000, which prompted another two sessions before the end of the year....
Some of the most special experiences in gaming come with remarkable storytelling in the package of a beautiful and unique aesthetic. Stories that are told from new perspectives or filled with deep meaning stay with the player for days, months, and even years after the game’s completion. A simple and fun gameplay experience can find its legs not only in the action and joy of the game itself, but in the memories found within the game world that was created....
The Outer Worlds is rife with lore and nods to pre-existing legends, most notably Greek mythology, and perhaps the most obvious case is the planet Olympus, which has already been unlocked on the map thanks to Peril on Gorgon. Olympus is one of four planets that’s locked during a no-DLC playthrough of The Outer Worlds. Visiting the planet isn’t absolutely imperative to the main storyline, obviously, or else the developer would have included it....
This The Orville review contains spoilers. The Orville Season 1 Episode 4 You’d think that after many seasons and spinoffs of Star Trek, we’d have seen an episode like this one, but The Orville is proving that it can break new ground even as it treads familiar territory. Encountering a society blinded by self-imposed ignorance is nothing new, of course, but the manner in which this show presents its encounters with other civilizations is quickly beginning to become its own thing....
Roseway is just another small town in the deep space of the galaxy that players can travel to in The Outer Worlds. Players first hear of the town on Terra 2 by happenstance when Gladys offers a clue to what could be valuable data ripe for selling on the black market. The Outer Worlds gives players multiple different endings. The fate of political space is in the hands of epic gamers....
While The Sims 4 will be turning 6 on PC in September, the life simulator has climbed to 10 million monthly active users as of the last quarter. The Sims 4 already had a sizable player base prior to last quarter, however, The Sims 4 community saw an approximated 33% increase with 2.5 million new players joining the fray during the previous quarter. It’s unclear as to why the player traffic spiked so dramatically....
This The Walking Dead review contains spoilers. The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 23 It’s hard to believe that The Walking Dead is almost over. Robert Kirkman’s comic book was designed to be a zombie movie that never ends, and even that came to an end eventually. With 11 seasons and 177 episodes (with next week’s series finale), The Walking Dead as a television property wasn’t endless, but it was as close as an expensive, hour-long cable drama can get, which is a testament both to the staying power of the cast and crew and the dedication of fans....
Large open-world games these days love to include mini-games that players can spend hours mastering. The Witcher has Gwent, a card game that may seem simple from the outside, but requires a decent amount of skill, practice, and tons of collecting. There are many quests involving Gwent, some mandatory and some secondary, so it’s valuable for anyone playing the game to pick up a few tricks. Looking to become a Gwent champion?...
