Pokémon Go cheaters, beware streaming your gameplay.
It’s taken over three weeks, but Twitch is finally ready to enforce their own Terms of Service when it comes to Pokémon Go cheating.
Since the game’s release on July 6, Pokémon Go has become one of the more popular titles on the streaming video platform. The game, played on mobile phones, requires the player to travel to physical locations to catch the game’s title creatures, isn’t exactly the easiest thing to stream. Some players have attached a GoPro to their foreheads, streaming what they see as they walk around their town catching Pokémon. One streamer strapped a laptop to his back, complete with a mouse taped to his backpack strap, so he had enough power to stream on the go. Continue reading Twitch will finally crack down on Pokémon Go cheaters→
The Twitch competitor has seen growth in Russia and Brazil.
Streaming service Hitbox has signed a two-year deal with ESL for all of the tournament organizer’s esports content and exclusive Portuguese and Russian broadcast rights for DreamHack.
From a celebrity to a puppet, these broadcasters have defied the odds for a new channel and gained popularity.
Starting a successful Twitch stream these days isn’t easy. With 1.7 million unique broadcasters on the platform every month, getting noticed is often practically a feat of genius—or luck. But there are some streamers who’ve managed to capture the attention of viewers through sheer entertainment or educational value.
If you’re addicted to Twitch, you have to at least give each of these streamers a try. They’re too good to ignore. Some of them capitalized on a special occasion—like the release of Overwatch—while others won over well-established streamers, leading to a lot of attention on social media during their broadcasts.
The streaming site wants to take them to a jury trial.
Twitch is taking a legal stand against one of its biggest scourges: botters, or websites that profit from artificially inflating viewership on the popular streaming platform.
The company is suing seven of “the most active sellers of viewbot services,” it announced. Twitch already has “a range of technological solutions” for detecting false viewers and removing them, and the moderation, support, and partnerships teams investigate reports of botting regularly, according to its announcement.
“We are taking the next step towards protecting Twitch viewers and broadcasters from the damaging effects of this kind of malicious activity,” Twitch’s senior vice president of marketing, Matthew DiPietro, said in the announcement. Continue reading Twitch is suing seven botting sites→
Cheaters are using GPS software to trick the game and then broadcast their exploits for the world to see.
No matter how hard ambitious Pokémon trainers try, they’re never going to be as successful as Lord_Cloudy. The sandy-haired streamer broadcasts from a dark room, fidgeting in his chair and vaping as he plays Pokémon Go, the game that’s supposed to require players to walk around the real world. But Lord_Cloudy achieves the physically impossible. His avatar marches right through buildings and across busy thoroughfares. Continue reading Twitch is swarming with Pokémon Go cheaters, but isn’t banning them—yet→
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