Ricky Yaneza, a 43-year-old gamer, was live-streaming his gaming session of Pokemon Go while traveling through Central Park in New York City on Monday morning. Yaneza didn’t complete the session or finish his walk because he was mugged. Continue reading Somebody Got Mugged Playing Pokemon Go Live On Twitch
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Twitch and YouTube ‘taking misogynistic abuse in gaming seriously’
Two of the biggest gaming sites in the world say they are battling to stamp out sexist and misogynistic comments and behavior on their platforms.
Female gamers get regular abuse on sites like Twitch and YouTube.
Improvements are “happening as fast as we can” according to Anna Prosser Robinson from Twitch.
“Harassment has no place on the platform, and we have guidelines against it,” adds YouTube.
Continue reading Twitch and YouTube ‘taking misogynistic abuse in gaming seriously’
Introducing The Hitbox Indie Show!
To celebrate the beauty of indie games, we are happy to announce our new Hitbox Indie Show!
The Hitbox Indie Show will put indie games in the limelight. The first show will happen at hitbox.tv/hitboxlive, this Friday – September 30th, and will revolve around the co-op games Monsters and Monocles as well as Rogue Stormers. Continue reading Introducing The Hitbox Indie Show!
Twitch Introduces New Chat Moderation Tools
Twitch is making huge strides to ensure that moderators have a multitude of professional grade tools available to them to make their job easier.
Today they introduced new chat moderation tools! Continue reading Twitch Introduces New Chat Moderation Tools
6,000 people on Twitch just beat a chess grandmaster
If Twitch can beat Pokémon games, it can beat one of the best chess players in the world, right?
It took three games and 6,000 people to finally defeat Simon Williams, a British chess grandmaster, but the Twitch community finally got it done. Continue reading 6,000 people on Twitch just beat a chess grandmaster