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Streaming sensation Imane “Pokimane” Anys announced today that her two-year contract with Twitch is officially up. For the first time since 2020, the streamer will become a free agent. after a wild 2 years, my Twitch contract ends today 🥲i’ll see you guys February 8th for the next chapter ❤️ much love to you all— pokimane (@pokimanelol) January 31, 2022 Pokimane began streaming on Twitch in 2013 when she was 17 years old and primarily played League of Legends. Since then, she’s turned her channel into one of the most popular channels on the website while enjoying a variety of different games and other forms of content with her community. She is the most-viewed woman on the platform today with nearly 9 million followers and over 200 million total channel views. In March of 2020, Pokimane announced that she’d signed a multi-year exclusivity deal with the streaming giant to continue making content on the platform. While she has yet to confirm where the next home for her stream will be, or whether she plans to re-sign with Twitch, the prospect of Pokimane’s next home is an exciting one considering the recent large platform moves by her streaming peers.  In September…

They say being a Syracuse Orange fan is a year round job, and this week proved it, as fans of every sport had something happen that was newsworthy. Break a slump? Sure! Recruiting implications for next season? Yup! How about season impacting injuries? You betcha. As usual, Christian, Steve, and Andy hoped on the Nunesmagician Twitch Channel on Sunday night to recap the week in Orange! In this week’s edition of the LiveCast/Podcast, the guys talked about... Syracuse football! The pitch kind, with Miles Robinson, Kamal Miller, and Tajon Buchanon. Sean Tucker ran track! We are pleased with his performance. We talk about the new look Syracuse coaching staff filled out by the new receivers coach. Alijah Clark is joining the Orange! HOMEFIELD APPAREL (Use promo code NUNES for 10% off your first order) Syracuse shot 7% from 3 in the second half of their loss to Pitt earlier this week. That is not a typo. James Arther Boeheim said some things. Or a lot of things. After all of that the Orange opened a can whoop on Wake Forest. Bubble watch coming up for the Orange? Maybe? Huge injury news for Men’s Lacrosse Join our Discord! If you haven’t…

Let's pick it up with more skankcore64, Bryan's quest to complete every N64 game released in North America. Salutations, my fair Shackizens, I hope you're having a restful weekend. Sunday afternoons are typically for lazing about but I'm here with a new skankcore64 episode, just for you! My personal journey through every Nintendo 64 game released in North America will continue around 3:00 p.m. PT/ 6:00 p.m. ET, only on Shacknews Twitch. Episode 112 - Rusty Bucket Bay Area Erstwhile on skankcore64, I used a slightly shorter livestream window to take care of some unfinished business in the first few areas of Banjo-Kazooie. There were six unclaimed hollow honeycomb pieces cleverly hidden—and some not so much—in the first three large levels of the game and I couldn't let them go unnoticed. The hollow honeycombs are used to increase your total number of hit points, one hit point for each six collected, and thus are quite important for completing the later and more difficult stages. Speaking of more difficult stages, I unlocked the entrance to Rusty Bucket Bay just before ending the last skankcore64 episode. This is widely considered to be the most taxing and frustrating level of Banjo-Kazooie so it…

Screenshot by Gamepur Halo Infinite has received success in critical reviews and player count, but not when it comes to Twitch viewership. Despite a strong first week, the shooter has quickly fallen off and now averages between 40th to 70th amongst Twitch’s most viewed games. As of writing, Infinite currently holds the 58th spot, behind Bungie’s Destiny 2 and even Rockstar’s 16-year-old Bully. However, this isn’t necessarily a Halo Infinite issue. It may be more related to a shift in what viewers want to watch. As pointed out by 100 Thieves co-owner Jack “CouRage” Dunlop, “FPS viewers have moved away from casual respawn arena shooters” like Halo Infinite and Call of Duty: Vanguard. Fortnite, Warzone, and Apex Legends have 200,000+ combined viewers on Twitch.Valorant and CS:GO have 200,000+ combined viewers on Twitch.Halo: Infinite, Vanguard, and BF:2042 have under 15,000 combined viewers.FPS viewers have moved away from casual respawn arena shooters.— Jack “CouRage” Dunlop (@CouRageJD) January 30, 2022 As you can see by the numbers Dunlop tweeted, viewers are hardly watching traditional multiplayer shooters and are much more interested in battle royales, hero shooters, and tactical shooters. On top of that, many Twitch viewers are more engaged by Minecraft and other…

Baiken has arrived as Guilty Gear Strive's fourth DLC Character and we're going to embrace the way of the samurai and see how she plays! Readers may be aware that I am a fanatic when it comes to Arc System Works fighting games and particularly Guilty Gear Strive. As we make our way through the game’s Season Pass, I have taken every opportunity to share the new characters and show off how they play in breakdowns and on stream. Now Baiken has launched as the game’s fourth DLC character and I’m ready to throw down with her! Baiken launched in Guilty Gear Strive on January 28, 2022 as the fourth of five DLC characters in the game’s first Season Pass (January 31 for non-pass holders). Baiken is one of the last remaining characters of the original Guilty Gear roster to join GG Strive. A one-armed, one-eyed samurai, Baiken wields a katana one-handed and houses a wealth of deadly gadgets where her other arm used to be. This time out she features a gimmick in which she can tether her opponent so they cannot get away from her temporarily. Join me as I go live with Baiken in Guilty Gear Strive…

A Twitch streamer named Questron showed off a genuinely elaborate meme setup while doing a 12-hour stream to celebrate 8k followers. While sitting in the post-game lobby, the Overwatch streamer showed off a fantastic video effects affair while live.Filled with video transitions, image flips, and outstanding visuals, the streamer moved along to the music, and his chat blew up with excitement. It ended the only way it possibly could, and that was by hitting a dab. “Cool, right? It’s so cool! I think it’s cool. I think that it is cool. Unfortunately, every single time that I do that though, for some reason, the thing just like, makes my audio, hides my audio for some reason.”Twitch streamer shows off elaborate meme in real-time (Clip begins at 44:54)The screen transitioned into a purple disco with his image in the middle, accompanied by up-tempo pop music with a puff of smoke. MLG meme glasses would pop up, and so would a huge handlebar mustache.Versions of himself in real-time showed up under the image as it transitioned to a bright yellow color, waggling his fists, doing finger guns, and finally a thumbs up from each of the photos of the Twitch streamer. It…

Wind down with the Shacknews Dump as we talk about the mighty launch of Halo Infinite, Respawn's parade of Star Wars games, and more. It’s the end of another week and there was quite a bit of news and gaming throughout the week, so you know the Shacknews Dump is here to pack it in and flush it down. Join us as we talk once again about the week’s hottest stories. On this January 28 edition of the Shacknews Dump, we discuss Raven Software’s effort to move forward with unionization after failures of recognition from Activision Blizzard. Meanwhile, Microsoft recently reported on its Q2 2022 earnings that Halo Infinite had passed a 20 million player milestone, making it the biggest Halo launch by far. Also, Respawn is working on not one, not two, but three upcoming Star Wars games? Join us as we talk about all of these stories and more on the Shacknews Dump, going live on the Shacknews Twitch channel at 1:30 p.m. PT / 4:30 p.m. ET. You can also watch just below. Here’s the rundown of topics being discussed on today’s Shacknews Dump: Raven Software workers file for union election after recognition deadline passes Star Wars…

Yacht Club Games, the developer behind the acclaimed 2D side-scroller Shovel Knight, has today announced that its annual showcase event will air on G4’s Twitch channel. The presentation will focus on new content in the works as well as the development of all-new projects. The announcement comes by way of a Tweet from the studio’s official Twitter channel: We’re proud to announce that the 3rd official Yacht Club Games Presents will be hosted on G4’s Twitch channel. We’ll be focusing on a selection of games that have brand new content currently in development! We also have a hair-raisingly exciting MEGA ANNOUNCEMENT! You do not want to miss this historic event! A blog post highlighting further details featured the following statement from Sean Velasco, game designer at Yacht Club Games: “We can’t wait to unleash everything we’ve been cooking up since our last showcase in February 2020. It’s been difficult to keep all this cool stuff a secret!. We hope you tune in and get excited too, because this is just the beginning!” If you want to check out some of Yacht Club’s most recent work, then take a look at our review of Shovel Knight: King of Cards or get…

Twitch streamer Hyub "hyubsama" has been banned from the platform for an unspecified amount of time.The streamer faced immense backlash following his latest stream where he had gone live with another female streamer at an establishment in Japan. hyubsama was seen interacting with her inappropriately, despite vocalizing her denial of consent. hyubsama chases after female streamer during Twitch streamOn January 23, 2022, crazy_japanese held an IRL stream in Japan where she went to an indoor establishment with some friends. One of those friends included male Twitch streamer hyubsama, whom she had recorded content with before.The clip that gained traction on the Livestream Fail subreddit is currently unavailable, but a mirror is available on their official site. (Source: Livestreamfails.com) crazy_japanese can be seen walking around the streets of Japan, after her interaction with hyub at a social gathering. She states,"No more meeting anyone. Where's the station?"As she attempts to look for the train station, a loud voice can be heard behind her, causing her to turn around and come face-to-face with hyubsama. The streamer seemingly followed her despite her having left the gathering.crazy_japanese immediately walks away from him, exclaiming the following:"No, no, no, no, no, no, I'm- I'm not, I'm- hey.…

Twitch is the world’s most popular streaming platform. As of January 2022, some of the most popular streamers, such as N3KOGLAI and XQCOW, have logged hundreds of hours of stream time, netted hundreds of millions of views, and seen upwards of three million hours watched from remote viewers. But once upon a time, Twitch.tv was a new project launched from 2007’s Justin.tv, a DIY streaming site. From 2011 to 2014, the first streamers to hit Twitch saw steady growth, which culminated in a 2014 recentering that would focus specifically on eSports (and, eventually, kneecopters from Mr. ChanChan). Twitch was the first platform that streamlined live gaming footage and started to offer remote gamers a chance to watch live competitions. At the time, eSports was in its earliest days; the majority of tournaments and teams were homegrown, with a market ecosystem that lacked any central bodies or organizing groups. But today, Twitch isn’t only one of the main platforms serving eSports fans. Instead, there’s a stream for just about any interest. Some of the first groups to latch onto the platform were others that benefitted from streaming live play, such as poker players. Originally, poker buffs who wanted to watch live play…