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[Link] 'America's Army,' the Pentagon’s Video Game, Shuts Down After 20 Years
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
America’s Army: Proving Grounds, a game used as a recruitment tool by the United States government, is shutting down its servers on March 5, 2022 after existing in various iterations for 20 years. After that date, the game will be delisted on Steam and removed from the PSN store.
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[Link] How ‘Vampire Survivors’ Went From Obscurity to 27,000 People Playing at Once
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
There are, as of this writing, more than 27,000 people playing a $3 game on Steam called Vampire Survivors. That’s more than games like The Elder Scrolls Online, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Phasmophobia, and just below God of War and The Witcher 3.
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[Link] Mr. Goxx, the Crypto-Trading Hamster, Is Dead
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
Mr. Goxx did his last full shift of trading on Twitch four days ago. The stream went live during the next two days, but Mr. Goxx didn’t show. Fans speculated if he was sick. Today, we know the sad truth. Mr. Goxx’s human business partner announced the news on Twitch, Twitter, and Reddit.
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[Link] 4 Work-From-Home Tech Tricks I Learned From Twitch Streamers
Read: 21/11/2021 www.wired.com
Like many Americans in office jobs, I started working from home in March due to Covid-19, and I haven’t been back to the office since.
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[Link] Streamer SquidGame losing work over Netflix show association
Read: 7/11/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Imagine signing up for a social media site in 2010, picking a username that you liked and spending the next decade gradually building up a following under that brand. Then out of nowhere, 2021 hits and the biggest television show of the year also happens to be your exact handle.
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[Link] Hasan Piker Said He Went to a Brothel, Igniting Sex Work Debate
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Tweets and past comments from Leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker have kicked off yet another argument online about whether sex work is inherently exploitative. On Thursday, Piker tweeted a video from inside of a strip club, where a young man wearing one of his t-shirts gets a lap dance.
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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] British Student ‘Lord Miles’ Evacuated from Afghanistan
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
Miles Routledge, the 21 year old university student who traveled to Kabul on Friday just before the Taliban overthrew Afghanistan's government, has been evacuated to Dubai, according to updates and video he posted to his Facebook page.
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[Link] Arson Suspected After House Of Twitch's Biggest Female Star Catches Fire
Read: 17/8/2021 kotaku.com
Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, the most-watched woman on Twitch, said in a Twitter thread that her house caught fire last Friday. According to Siragusa, investigators haven’t pinpointed a specific cause but “strongly suspect arson.”
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[Link] This Neat Twitch Tool Could Be the Answer to Streamers’ Copyright Strikes
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
In response to the waves and waves of copyright claims fired at Twitch streamers for more than a year, one developer has come up with a clever workaround for gamers who want to play copyrighted jams on the Amazon-owned streaming site.
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