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Ninja hits 1 million subscribers on Mixer five days after leaving Twitch

After just five days of streaming, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is boasting 1 million active subscribers on Mixer, the Microsoft-owned platform that made him jump ship from Twitch. “Thank you for all the incredible support,” Blevins tweeted when announcing the milestone. “I haven’t felt this good in a long time.” Whether Blevins’ fans would follow him from Twitch to Mixer, a much smaller…
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Xbox Live outage locks players out of their games for hours

Since just before 5 PM ET, an Xbox outage has caused gamers error messages when trying to launch their digital titles. Whenever a player tried to open a game, it quickly close and flash a message to sit tight as outages happen “once in a while”. Within the last…
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Bumble and Gen. G form first pro all-women 'Fortnite' team

Women make up roughly 35 percent of Fortnite‘s players, but none of them were represented at this year’s World Cup. Bumble, the women-first dating app, has teamed up with esports organization Gen. G in order to change that. The two companies have formed…
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Twitch is now the official international streaming partner for USA Basketball

Twitch has partnered with the National Basketball Association to stream USA Basketball games globally through 2020, according to Reuters. USA Basketball is a nonprofit organization that’s the governing body for basketball in America; it’s the outfit that organizes the men’s and women’s teams that compete internationally. (This year, it will send teams to the FIBA World Cup in China —…
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Giant mechs are destroying 'Fortnite'

Every new Fortnite season is met with high anticipation — players know they’ll get fresh skins, crazy emotes, new weapons and a different world to explore. When Season X kicked off last week, Epic Games delivered on that promise, bringing back some well-loved…
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Twitch will stream Team USA basketball games

USA Basketball has had a hard time getting players to participate in the upcoming FIBA World Cup, but the organization has managed to lock down one position: its streaming partner. Today, Twitch announced that it will be the exclusive home for live streaming content from USA Basketball’s men’s and women’s teams. The content will be available to watch live at twitch.tv/nba, with…
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'Halo' TV series has its Cortana ahead of early 2021 premiere

While Showtime took forever to start filling in details for its Halo TV series, it’s clearly eager to make up for lost time. The broadcaster has announced that Natascha McElhone (of Ronin and Californication fame) will portray both the legendary Cortana AI as well as…
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The first 'Fortnite' Champion Series begins August 17th

Now that Fortnite‘s tenth season is underway and the World Cup is fading out of view, Epic is ready to outline what comes next for competitive play in its battle royale title. The first Champion Series (previously called the Championship Series) will start on August…
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N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth fantasy trilogy is getting an RPG

N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy has become an acclaimed fantasy classic since its debut, earning three consecutive Hugo Awards in as many years. Now, fans will be able to explore the world on their own: Green Ronin Publishing announced that it’ll be releasing a roleplaying game based on the trilogy. Over the course of the three novels (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone…
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