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Amazon’s Cloud Gaming Service Could Arrive Next Year With Twitch Integration
According to CNET, Amazon is planning to announce a cloud gaming service next year, and it may offer integration with Twitch and its other services. From the report: It’s begun recruiting people from large game companies like Microsoft to help with the launch, as well as hiring for jobs in a “new initiative” within its Amazon Web Services team, which sources…
Should Parents Support Teens Who Want To Become Professional Gamers?
A family physician warned about a new problem this week in the New York Times: As a family doctor, I often hear from parents about how their kids push back at any attempt to limit how much time they spend playing video games. The parents will say, it’s after midnight, maybe it’s time to turn off the video game and get…
School Field Trips: Amazon Warehouses Are the New Smithsonian
theodp writes: On Thursday evening, Amazon is hosting a national field trip of sorts, inviting kids and teachers to take part in a Twitch livestream tour inside an Amazon robotics fulfillment center with the goal of inspiring students to learn about robotics and to “illustrate the importance of a computer science education.” From the press release: “On the tour, students will…
Millions Watch As Entire Fortnite Ecosystem Becomes a Black Hole
“Fortnite just blew up its entire map and all that’s left is a black hole,” reports TechCrunch. Some are speculating that this is simply a teaser for a new Fortnite map, but it’s unclear when that new map will arrive… Fortnite’s website is currently just a Twitch stream featuring a black hole. The Washington Post reports:
Anyone looking for clues on Fortnite’s…
Videogame Records Site Refuses To Reinstate ‘King of Kong’ Billy Mitchell’s High Scores
An anonymous reader writes: Billy Mitchell is the intense videogamer made famous in the 2007 documentary The King of Kong. Last month he threatened to sue both the Guinness Book of World Records and the videogame record-keepers at Twin Galaxies for defamation after they revoked an entire lifetime’s worth of videogame high scores. An online discussion had argued that videotapes of…
Did a Poker Pro Use RFID Tags To Cheat?
CNBC reports that a popular Twitch poker star has been accused of cheating: Stones Gambling Hall in Sacramento, California says it will not livestream poker games pending an investigation into cheating allegations made against one of the game’s players, Mike Postle… The original accusations were made by Veronica Brill, another poker player who has played with Postle on “Stones Live.” Since…
Sony’s PS5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Join the Fight Against Climate Change
Both Sony and Microsoft on Monday committed to making their future video game consoles better for the planet. The two console makers laid out their plans alongside the UN Climate Summit as part of the Playing for the Planet Alliance. From a report: Microsoft will start a pilot program to create 825,000 carbon neutral Xbox consoles, the company said in a…
Some of the Best Video Game Streamers Are Senior Citizens
“As we’ve discussed in the past, old people are some of the only video game streamers worth watching,” writes the AV Club: Filled with the wisdom that comes from age, seniors are the necessary corrective to Twitch and YouTube channels currently dominated by excitable whippersnappers. Fortunately, as outlined in a piece NBC’s Kalhan Rosenblatt that explores this world, video games are…
‘Mining Bitcoin On a 1983 Apple II: a Highly Impractical Guide’
option8 ((Slashdot reader #16,509) writes: TL;DR: Mining Bitcoin on a 1MHz 8-bit processor will cost you more than the world’s combined economies, and take roughly 256 trillion years. “But it could happen tomorrow. It’s a lottery, after all,” explains the blog post (describing this mad scientist as a hardware hacker and “self-taught maker”, determined to mine bitcoin “in what must be…