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With the official return of College Football 26, Ultimate Team starts to receive some attention with news coming out over the first Twitch drop of the season. 23 new cards were made available after they dropped during a live stream on Twitch. They were separated into different sections, including one Welcome Pack Item, Elites, Heroes, Champions, and LTDs. This is all part of Fresh Faces. It helps highlight the players who move on to different schools from last year, so players in Ultimate Team can receive their cards. Here are all the cards that dropped with their top attributes: Related Article: The 10 Best Overall Teams in College Football 26: Dynasty Mode and more College Football 26 Ultimate Team Fresh Faces / Image via EA Sports Welcome Pack Item Maurice Westmoreland, EDGE, Tulane Elites (80 Overalls) Each section included a short paragraph on instructions on how to handle the card games received. "Exchange one of each Fresh Faces Week 1 Elites to receive 1x Fresh Faces Week 1 Elite Token. Players will be given back on completion unbound. Redeemable once." Dillon Moore, SAM, Western Michigan Gavin Sawchuk, HB, Florida State Ben Bell, EDGE, Virginia Tech Chavez Brown, MIKE, USF Jalil

It's the end of the road for another Summer Games Done Quick, but there are some incredible runs lined up for the final day. It's the dawn of the final day for Summer Games Done Quick. For one last day, tune in to watch the world's best speedrunners run through some of the biggest games of the past and present as quickly as possible. As they do every year, they'll be doing it for charity in front of a worldwide audience on Twitch. Summer Games Done Quick 2025 is back in Minneapolis, Minnesota to wrap up this marathon week. This year's event is raising money for Doctors Without Borders. Going into the final day, the runners have raised over $1.3 million. Shacknews is here with one last look at the schedule and to highlight the biggest runs worth watching. Before we get to the schedule, let's look at a highlight from Day 6. Don't know who Jenna is, but let's chant for her anyway. You can watch this year's marathon in full in the embed below! Summer Games Done Quick 2025: Day 7 schedule Here's the full schedule for Day 7, taken from the Games Done Quick website, along with

Credit: Hot Ones on YouTube Perhaps Kai Cenat, the biggest Twitch streamer in America, can get the attention of the NBA on innovative ways to connect with younger audiences. Coming off two straight seasons where the league was plagued by constant discussion of its fluctuating viewership and potentially dipping relevance for young fans, Cenat believes live-streaming on platforms like Twitch and YouTube can be part of the solution. In an interview on Hot Ones this week, Cenat pitched the idea of more freedom for streamers to react live to NBA games. “I know this might be a bad take, but I do think if streamers were allowed to react to the NBA, I know it’s television and things happen with traditional media,” Cenat said. “But I do feel like it’s OK or times at least are changing, where if streamers or people at home are able to react to these games, it would only be crazier. That’s one thing, I think. If we could get streamers to be able to react to NBA games live, that would be crazy.” Kai Cenat believes letting streamers host live reactions during NBA games could bring in a bigger audience and grow the league’s fanbase

Twitch has taken another hit in Q2 2025 as rival platform Kick reached a major milestone, surpassing 1 billion hours watched for the first time. According to new data from StreamsCharts, livestreams across all platforms totaled 29.61 billion Hours Watched last quarter, a slight 0.6% drop from Q1. While the overall streaming industry remains steady, Twitch continues to lose ground. YouTube Live held firm as the dominant force, maintaining just over 50% of the entire market’s watch time and matching its Q1 numbers with 14.83 billion hours watched. But the real movement came from Kick, which saw viewership surge by 28.1% quarter-over-quarter. With breakout streamers, a growing demand for gaming content, and a stacked football entertainment calendar, Kick’s growth pushed its market share to 3.74% with its strongest performance since launch. StreamsCharts Twitch, meanwhile, posted its third straight quarterly decline. StreamsCharts reports the Amazon-owned platform saw drops in both average channels and average viewers, leading to a dip in total hours watched. Twitch’s market share also slid by another 0.9% in Q2. Twitch opened the door for Kick’s success Kick‘s rise has also come with Twitch’s fall. One major factor behind Twitch’s decline? Multistreaming. Since the platform lifted its exclusivity

Thursday, July 10th, 2025 – 4:09 pm AI is a double-edged sword for publishers. On the one hand, agentic AI tools are helping publishers streamline ad sales and operations, with the efficiency gains producing incremental revenue. But, on the other hand, publishers are losing monetizable traffic to generative AI-powered search. And internal optimizations may not be enough to offset those traffic losses. Stephanie Layser, global head of publisher ad tech solutions at Amazon Web Services (AWS), has spent her career in ad tech on the sell side focusing on how publishers can get the most out of digital advertising. And publishers are getting some encouraging early results from deploying new AI tools, she said during the AWS Monetization Symposium in New York City on Wednesday. Take Amazon-owned Twitch. Before it worked with AWS to automate parts of its sales process, the video platform suffered from data fragmentation that left 20% of advertisers’ campaign questions unanswered. But Twitch worked with AWS to centralize its marketing data and created retrieval augmented generation (RAG) connections to give AI assistants access to that centralized data. As a result, Twitch has seen 25% higher revenue so far this year from advertisers that use AI solutions

When Giannis Antetokounmpo decided to show IShowSpeed around Greece, nobody expected the Twitch superstar to throw down a dunk at the same court where the Greek Freak got his first slam. But that’s exactly what happened during Speed’s tour of Athens, turning a casual meetup into one of the most entertaining crossover moments between basketball and streaming. The NBA Player Guessing Game allows you to guess the NBA player based on clues about their team, division, height, jersey number, points, and experience. What Happened When Giannis Antetokounmpo Challenged IShowSpeed to Touch the Rim? The magic started when Antetokounmpo and Speed walked onto a basketball court that holds special meaning for the Milwaukee Bucks star. This was where Giannis got his first dunk as a youngster, making it the perfect spot for a friendly challenge. During this part of Speed’s live Twitch feed, Antetokounmpo playfully said Speed wouldn’t be able to touch the rim, but Speed wasn’t fazed. He grabbed the ball, pumped himself up, approached the rim, and got up to dunk the ball despite being over a foot shorter than Antetokounmpo. Giannis didn’t think Speed couldn’t touch touch the rim, so Speed DUNKS it 🔥 👀 pic.twitter.com/knbiZoSCv1 — Speedy

Aussie alt-rock icons Jebediah have been delighting Australian audiences for around 30 years now.  They started strong, with 1996's Twitch EP serving as a brilliant introduction, and things only got better from there. From their acclaimed debut album Slightly Odway, all the way through to last year's brilliant sixth album Oiks, the band have consistently delivered spirited, often high energy and always imminently enjoyable music. The band will get back out on the road to celebrate the breadth of that music this October, and with no new album to plug and a bevy of greatest hits shows in the rearview, they'll use these shows as a chance to do something a little different. The tour will serve as something of a retrospective of their catalogue, offering fans a chance to see the band playing songs that don't necessarily get wheeled out all that often. "We've been playing a lot of festival sets where we wheel out all the hits, so to speak," Kevin Mitchell said in a statement today. "So, it's time for us to curate a set of songs that aren't just a parade of singles.  "Hopefully the set will be different to anything we've done before and be

In the male-dominated world of gaming, Imane Anys—a.k.a. Pokimane—stands out. The 29-year-old Moroccan Canadian creator rose to fame playing titles like Fortnite, League of Legends, and Valorant on Twitch, where her audience of 9.4 million makes her the platform’s most-followed female streamer and one of the top 20 most-followed overall. But Anys has long been thinking beyond the console. In addition to gameplay, she shares lifestyle content—including travel vlogs and day-in-the-life routines on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, where she’s amassed nearly 20 million followers combined—and chats directly with viewers on Twitch during her streams. She also co-founded the creator collective OfflineTV in 2017, launched the streamer talent agency RTS in 2021, and has dipped a toe into acting, with a cameo in the action-comedy Free Guy and appearances in music videos for artists Bella Poarch and d4vd. Data and insights powered by #paid

Research shows those sudden “sleep starts” reveal far more than fatigue—each twitch hints at one of seven core personality patterns beneath the sheets. Few sensations blur the line between body and mind like the hypnic jerk — the abrupt muscle jolt that yanks you back from the brink of sleep. You know the drill: you’re drifting, your legs kick, your partner laughs, and you pretend it was intentional. But what if those twitches aren’t random static? Up to 70% of adults experience them, notes a summary from Sleepopolis, yet their frequency and intensity vary wildly from person to person.   When I dug into recent studies and interviewed two sleep neurologists, a startling pattern emerged: the people most prone to hypnic jerks often share distinct personality traits. Below, I map 7 of those traits to the underlying biology—and offer everyday analogies you can test tonight. 1. The vigilant worrier Picture a smoke alarm wired to detect toast crumbs. That’s the nervous system of someone high in neuroticism: hypersensitive, quick to interpret benign stimuli as threats. Longitudinal data in BMC Psychology tie this trait to heightened baseline arousal and difficulty toggling into deep rest.  In the seconds before sleep, the brainstem

Kai Cenat is famous for breaking Twitch subscriber records, winning streaming awards and conquering tough games like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Soon, Cenat will face one of his biggest challenges yet: the Hot Ones podcast, which tests interviewees with progressively diabolical hot sauces. Let's explore everything to know about the collab and how fans can watch. Kai Cenat, who has over 18.3 million Twitch followers at @KaiCenat, is one of the internet's most famous gaming and lifestyle influencers. He is the most-subscribed Twitch channel at the time of writing and has also won several Streamer Awards titles. Cenat hosts streams in a variety of genres, including Just Chatting and IRL vlogs, and is well-known for his subathon events and celebrity collaborations. He has hosted Ice Spice, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Miranda Cosgrove, SZA and more personalities on his broadcasts. Kai Cenat is also part of a streamer collective called Any Means Possible (AMP) and has started his own Streamer University for up-and-coming creators. Cenat's gaming content often goes viral for its funny moments and elaborate setups. While playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, he famously dressed in full samurai attire and decked out his room with a Japanese-style bridge, mountains