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Streamers should be paying developers to feature their content, according to Google Stadia’s creative director Alan Hutchinson. “Streamers worried about getting their content pulled because they used music they didn’t pay for should be more worried that by the fact that they’ve played games they didn’t pay for as well,” Hutchinson said in a tweet…
PlayStation has banned chat banter that is critical of the People’s Republic of China, in a terms of service update which specifically targets the Hong Kong market. The update to the Hong Kong region terms, which was published this month, includes the following under the Community Code of Conduct section: “For users with China Mainland…
Another week and yet another skeevy games company slipping in undesirable “features” a month post-launch. This time we have 2K games adding unskippable advertisements into NBA 2K21. The game now forces players to watch something called “MyTEAM Season 2, Episode 7” prior to each match. Which amounts to little more than a 30 second commercial…
AMD is issuing guidelines to retailers in order to prevent scalping of their new Ryzen 5000 CPUs and RX 6000 GPUs, according to a report obtained by RedGamingTech. According to the document, the company is telling shops that “some purchasers may initially try to buy large quantities of our new graphics and processors cards and…
AMD’s new Zen 3 processors are on their way in just a few short weeks. While we don’t have any official benchmarks, early leaks indicate that these are going to be some mighty powerful CPUs, regardless of whether you’re gaming or doing productivity. They also come with a bit of a price hike over previous…
Another console generation is upon as. This time around, both Sony and Microsoft are looking to win on beefier specs rather than more cost effective hardware. How well with this play out for them? Well, take a look for yourself. Just like we did seven years ago, we’re going to take a look at each…
Sony will reportedly be allowing internet randos to record your party chats on PlayStation 5 for “safety” purposes. “We want PlayStation to be for everyone”, the company said in a message to the community. “Please be aware that voice chats may be recorded and sent to us by other users. By participating, you agree to…
Yet another Nintendo fan game has been shut down by the grim spectre of lawsuits. Kaze Emanuar, who is well known in the modding community, had been making a title called “the Missing Link”, using the same engine as Ocarina of Time. Now the game has been completely stripped from the internet after it was…
Even before the PlayStation 5 was announced, many of us hoped it would finally give us backwards compatibility for the PS3. Given my love for Sony’s bizarre 7th gen console, that would have made it a guaranteed purchase for me. However, the company has confirmed that its upcoming hardware will not be playing those games…
FIFA 21 released on the Switch this week to the collective groan of soccer fans. The game is, for all intents and purposes, just FIFA 17 with a fresh coat of paint haphazardly splashed across the pitch. Even the box admits that it only features minor updates to kits, squads, and stadiums. All this for…