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Streamers are making millions for charity — and they’re just getting started

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
January 8, 2022
3 min

YouTubers running charity streams on Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook Gaming have become a staple of the medium. It says something about the streaming community...

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Rainbow Six: Extraction preview: It ain’t Siege, but it’s all right

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
January 7, 2022
4 min

Rainbow Six: Extraction is Ubisoft’s new multiplayer entry in the Rainbow Six series, a PvE title that is supposed to be sympatico with Siege....

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AMD CEO Lisa Su talks cheaper GPUs, Intel competition, 3D chiplets, and Zen 4

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 7, 2022
20 min

Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su is an old pro at showing off new products that can kick its competition’s butt. She did more...

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The DeanBeat: The best of CES 2022 as seen from afar

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 7, 2022
7 min

Oh, my butt is sore from sitting so much. That was one of the hazards of CES 2022, which I covered for a second...

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Atari CEO Wade Rosen interview — Returning to classic video game roots

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 7, 2022
17 min

Atari has come back from the dead more than once. Under previous CEO Fred Chesnais, it moved into mobile games and struck gold with...

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Overwolf invests in Syn City, explores UGC in mafia metaverse

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
January 7, 2022
2 min

Overwolf, the user-generated content creation and distribution platform, announced today it’s investing in Syn City. The “mafia metaverse” game has raised over $8 million...

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E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 6, 2022
1 min

The Entertainment Software Association is shifting the Electronic Entertainment Expo to an online-only event out of concerns around the pandemic. “Due to the ongoing...

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Oasis Consortium unveils user-safety standards for an ‘ethical internet’

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 6, 2022
3 min

The Oasis Consortium, a nonprofit devoted to making the internet safer, launched its principles for online user safety today. Tiffany Xingyu Wang, president of...