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Popular Twitch VTuber CodeMiko will join the lineup of entertainment personalities when G4TV makes its much-anticipated return in summer 2021. G4TV originally shut down at the end of 2014, leaving gamers and fans of popular culture with an empty void in their television schedules. However, with the announcement of its return, fans have begun to get excited about the programming being announced. On April 30, G4TV announced that CodeMiko will be joining the lineup on the newly revived channel. CodeMiko, a VTuber primarily featured on Twitch, has been conducting interviews with many popular digital entertainers such as Videogamedunkey. A featured tweet of hers from February shows a clip from the interview with Videogamedunkey, as she changes her model's outfits to become a scantily clad nun. CodeMiko's ability to make interviewees uncomfortable is one of the main selling points for her streams. VTubers, also known as virtual YouTubers, produce content in a video while digitally altered to look like a different person. CodeMiko appears to take the form of a woman in her early twenties, though the character is performed by a person only known to the public as "The Technician." A digital bodysuit records her movements and processes them into the character that…

Popular streamer xQc is back to playing after his fourth ban from NoPixel's GTA Online role-playing server was shortened by a few weeks. Popular Twitch streamer Felix 'xQc' Lengyel, known for being polarizing online, has found himself in an unusual spot with his involvement in the Grand Theft Auto Online NoPixel RP server. The streamer has been issued a number of bans for breaking rules established by the server's founders. Lengyel's status on the server seems to be in a state of permanent flux, but he is now back to playing Grand Theft Auto Online, to the delight of his fans. The GTA NoPixel RP server has attracted a number of big-name streamers and Internet celebrities, giving them the chance to take on a completely different persona as they play. This makes for good content as streamers create characters with deep backstories and relationships on the server. Viewers are tuning in to see their favorite streamers in a new setting, and on any given day fans never know who might show up. It is part of the reason why GTA 5 topped Twitch viewership in March, and why the game has thrived for so long. Bringing in more controversial streamers like xQc…

Popular WoW streamer Asmongold told viewers that it’s “naive” to think any big streamer out there leads a life similar to theirs, especially with all of the money being made these days. One of the biggest draws of streaming is the relationship viewers feel they develop with their favorite creator, but it might not be wise to start thinking big-name streamers are anything like the rest of us. There was definitely time in the early days of streaming when it could be said the big streamers were similar to your average gamer, but no more. In the year 2021 there’s so much money going around, influencers on Twitch and YouTube are in a whole other tax bracket than most, according to Asmongold. Twitch: asmongoldAsmon has been a big name in streaming for years, so he would definitely know how the game is played. While playing some WoW Shadowlands on a secondary channel, Asmon went on a soliloquy about why it was “naive” to believe that your favorite famous streamer is just like you, or even comparable. “To some degree, ‘relatability’ is important, sure,” Asmon remarked. “But, I really think that people are very naive, when they think that many streamers…

Home News Battle Royale Scavengers (Image credit: Midwinter) Free-to-play battle royale hybrid Scavengers had a bit of a rocky start in Early Access this week, due to issues with servers and Steam keys. Keys could only be claimed by watching streamers playing the game Twitch, and some viewers never got theirs. Also, Scavengers actually ran out of Steam keys to distribute. There were, as there often are with new games, some server crashing issues as well.So a bit of a messy soft launch, but sounds like the server issues have been resolved, and even better, players won't have to watch Twitch streams or keep checking their inboxes for a key. Scavengers enters Early Access properly tomorrow, May 1, and it'll be available to everyone with no key needed to unlock it.No keys needed - tomorrow, May 1, at 9AM PT / 5PM BST, Scavengers PC Early Access will be available for all.To celebrate, we’re also releasing a brand new deep-dive gameplay trailer on “What is Scavengers.” Share it with your friends as a quick primer!https://t.co/GRFHJTq1CFApril 30, 2021See moreIt's an abrupt change of plans—just yesterday the developers said they might "move off keyed access" at some point, but now it looks…

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021, happening today! Watch live here!  Influencers are an important marketing tool for many brands, but that strategy is beginning to shift. Now, instead of turning to the biggest names on TikTok or Twitch, marketing companies are looking to work with “microinfluencers.” These are people who regularly create content but for a smaller, more dedicated audience. And it’s that relationship between the creator and the viewers that makes them so valuable to brands. “Engagement rate as a whole is actually negatively correlated with followers,” Rainmaker.gg and Lightstream chief executive officer Stu Grubbs said during a GamesBeat Summit panel today. “The larger the following that a content creator has, the less engagement they get on a per-viewer basis. So it actually goes to show that the smaller community you have has a lot more impact.” Grubbs explains that brands want to get the biggest return on investment, and a dollar spent on a smaller streamer can actually go further than with someone who has a massive audience. And most marketers understand this. The problem is that working with a lot of smaller creators is labor intensive and cumbersome. “You need to have the relationship and write the contract,…

It appears that Los Angeles Angels superstar Mike Trout is a fan of Twitch phenom TimTheTatMan, who revealed on one of his streams that Trout apparently followed him on social media. Take a look: TimTheTatMan realizing Angels’ Mike Trout followed him on social media mid-stream. (via @timthetatman) pic.twitter.com/gJZsiQHyrA — ClutchPoints NBA (@ClutchPointsNBA) April 29, 2021 TimTheTatMan appears in awe that “one of the greatest players in the MLB” decided to toss him a follow, in which he initially reveals he didn’t return the favor. However, by the end of the video, the Twitch star eventually did give Mike Trout a follow. Probably a good choice. Trout is enjoying another fantastic year with the Angels, hitting a ridiculous .420 with six bombs already through 20 games. At this point, it seems as the older Trout gets, the better he becomes. LA is currently just above .500 at 12-11, much in part to the slugger’s dominance at the plate. As for TimTheTatMan, he is one of the most popular videogame streamers in the world, amassing a total of 241.7 million views on Twitch, as of April 25th.  He also has over six million followers on the streaming app. Considering that Mike Trout…

Twitch star Imane ‘Pokimane’ Anys opened up to viewers about why she won’t join an esports team, despite getting numerous offers over the years from various organizations. With over 7.7 million followers in 2021, Pokimane is not only one of the top female streamers on Twitch but is also one of the faces of the popular live content website. Despite many of her peers running to sign with an esports org though, the OfflineTV star revealed why she won’t be joining another team anytime soon, if at all. YouTube: Pokimane TooThe popular Twitch streamer gave her thoughts on joining an esports org. Pokimane on why she won’t sign with an esports org In a stream highlight video posted to her YouTube channel on April 28, Anys addressed the topic of her ever signing with an esports organization after a fan asked her if she had any plans to join a team in the future. “No. For years and years I have been offered plenty of times. Plenty of teams. But I’m on OTV. And you know, we created OfflineTV and I feel like if I joined a team, it kind of diluted my brand and it diluted the OTV brand,”…

Juan Joya Borja, also known as “El Risitas,” has died in Seville, Spain, according to ABC Seville. He was 65 years old. On Twitch, he was known as the face of the “KEKW” emote. He was also known for his signature laugh, which came from a 2007 interview in which he was sharing an anecdote. In the interview, Risitas tells a hilarious story about his first day working at a restaurant by the ocean. He spins a yarn about moldy pans being left for the salty ocean to clean. He tied the pans to a stick by the ocean, but when he got there to open in the morning, only one of the 20 pans remained. The tide had risen and swept the rest out to sea. His uproarious laughter and facial expressions sent the clip viral on Reddit in 2014. Eventually, the clip’s popularity and the parodies made of it led to his face being used for the “KEKW” emote, which is used in comedic moments. El Risitas was reportedly admitted to the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville for an illness and passed away this afternoon. He had been in a hospital since September 2020 and allegedly suffered…

QAnon supports reportedly found a new place to go.  Getty Images Twitch, Amazon's video game streaming platform, has had its share of streamers who created content too sexualized or too toxic for the company's terms and services. But now there appears to be a new batch of creators thriving on the platform after being banned from other social media networks for sharing QAnon and COVID-denying conspiracy theories.More than 20 channels streaming far-right ideas and conspiracy theories are on Twitch, according to a report from The New York Times Tuesday. Some of the streamers are faithful to former President Donald Trump and are spreading the false narrative that he won the 2020 presidential election. Others include QAnon supporters who spread the misinformation that the Democratic party and Hollywood elite are part of a cabal of pedophile Satan worshippers, the report said. Stay in the know Get the latest tech stories with CNET Daily News every weekday. Some of these channels make money from streaming to Twitch through donations from viewers or subscriptions, according to the NYT. Twitch says it will take "swift action" against users who violate any of its community policies, which recently changed to include behavior away from the platform.…

On PoliticsBarred from Twitter and Facebook as Trump was, social media’s younger conspiracy theorists are moving to Twitch.Credit...Antonio de Luca/The New York TimesApril 27, 2021, 6:19 p.m. ETWhat’s the biggest political surprise of 2021? Not the Democrats’ upset wins in Georgia, flipping the Senate in their favor. Not President Biden’s leftward swerve.How about the fact that, after he was kicked off Twitter and Facebook, former President Donald Trump pretty much just … went away. He didn’t start his own social media company, as some close observers thought he might, and he didn’t mount a major public battle to get his accounts reinstated. He just quietly retreated (for now) to Mar-a-Lago.Be honest: Did you ever think that would happen?Still, the behavior of one man — no matter how famous, no matter how formidable a troll — does not determine the behavior of others. And as Twitter, Facebook and other platforms have cracked down on misinformation, the internet’s younger and spryer purveyors of far-right conspiracy theories have moved elsewhere.One platform that has particularly attracted them is Twitch, an Amazon-owned livestreaming video site that our tech reporter Kellen Browning describes in a recent article as “a new mainstream base of operations for many…