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Minecraft’s recent surge on YouTube proves that the ‘PewDiePie Effect’ is still real

Almost two months ago, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg did something his fans have wanted for years: he made a Minecraft video, and he’s continued to make them ever since. The result was Kjellberg’s most successful month in years, pulling in more than 570 million views in July and kickstarting a new trend among some of the biggest YouTube creators. For the first time since January 2017…
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Nintendo may have many, many more Switch consoles planned

Nintendo is definitely releasing the $200 Switch Lite handheld console on September 20th, and may release a higher-end console soon too, if rumors are to be believed. Its plans might even go beyond all that, however. The company is reportedly working on further updates…
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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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