Gaming

YouTube’s annual Rewind look back is here, and while this year’s video isn’t live yet — let’s hope the service avoids another most-disliked debacle — it has revealed some statistics. Mostly, YouTube’s charts show that being embroiled in controversy hasn’t pushed top creators down very far. PewDiePie, aka Felix Kjellberg is still the number one most…

Twitch is announcing a new set of features and tools for its Creator Dashboard. That’s a big deal, since the livestreaming platform has more than 3 million creators, or people who livestream. And the easy way to boost that number is to make better tools that make it easier to become a streamer. While 3 million sounds like a lot of streamers, it’s a relatively small part of Twitch’s overall…

(Reuters) — Japan’s Nintendo said on Wednesday it will officially launch its Switch gaming console in mainland China on December 10 priced 2,099 yuan ($298) with local partner Tencent. Pre-orders for the console began at noon (0400 GMT) in China on Wednesday, opening a major front in Nintendo’s drive to expand the reach of the home-portable Switch device beyond a core fanbase as it heads…

Slitherine Software’s known for deep strategy games on PC, but it’s put a few games the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One over the years, most notably 2017’s Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock. Now the publisher is bringing another of its franchises to consoles: Fantasy General II, a turn-based strategy game came out in September for PC. Fantasy General II will come to the PS4 and Xbox One in 2020. The…