[Link] Google Stadia’s salvaged future as a back-end cloud service is here

Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com

Quick Google Stadia recap: Things have not been great. Google's AAA cloud gaming service launched in 2019 to middling reviews and since then has severely undershot Google's sales and usage estimates by hundreds of thousands of users.

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[Link] The Gamers Who Regularly Stream to No One

Read: 14/10/2021 www.vice.com

Alex has been streaming for an average of six viewers for nearly three years. Alex, who goes by cobaltgear on Twitch, has been streaming mostly pre-2010 games from his California home since 2017.  The numbers tend to vary.

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[Link] ‘Warzone’ Bans 100,000 Cheaters in Largest Ban Wave Yet

Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com

The makers of the popular first-person shooter Call of Duty just banned more than 100,000 accounts for cheating in what is the largest ban wave in the game's history. On Wednesday, Raven Software, the developer of the free-to-play Call of Duty: Warzone, announced the bans in a tweet.

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[Link] Overwatch League Casters Stop Saying McCree’s Name

Read: 15/8/2021 kotaku.com

McCree is Overwatch’s iconic gunslinger, but some casters commentating over official competitions are now avoiding saying his name.

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