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Jay Peters

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    This is the worst way to shop for video games.

    Amazon has a new 3D “Gaming Zone” online showroom, which feels like it was designed to fit a marketing executive’s idea of “gamer aesthetic.” Also, the showroom is a chore to navigate. And you can’t even play the arcade cabinets!

    Note: If you buy something from the links in the store, we might get affiliate revenue.

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    Jay Peters
    Fortnite is getting closer to a return on iOS in the EU.

    Epic Games has submitted the Epic Games Store and Fortnite to Apple for notarization. The company aims to launch them both in the EU on iOS in “the next couple months.”

    In January, Epic said it planned to bring both to iOS “this year.”

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    Jay Peters
    George R.R. Martin on a potential Elden Ring adaptation:

    Oh, and about those rumors you may have heard about a feature film or television series based on ELDEN RING… I have nothing to say. Not a word, nope, not a thing, I know nothing, you never heard a peep from me, mum mum mum. What rumor?

    Lose One, Win One

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    Jay Peters
    Twitch is giving streamers some handy new tools.

    Streamers will be able to drop in on each other with Stream Together, clips are getting a more optimized creation flow, and the platform’s enhanced broadcasting feature will soon be available for all streamers to try, among other things.

    Twitch is also making a “Streamer Achievement Program. Streamers will get statues after their channel reaches certain milestones for hours watched.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Please don’t uncheck my boxes.

    I can’t stop checking boxes on https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/, and I’d really like for them to stay checked.

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    Jay Peters
    YouTube didn’t give Dr Disrespect a contract because of rumblings about his Twitch ban.

    Per a Rolling Stone report with more details about the ban:

    YouTube’s former global head of gaming partnerships at Google, Ryan Wyatt, confirmed to Rolling Stone that Beahm was not offered a contract due to chatter about the circumstances of his Twitch ban. He says that a Twitch employee and journalists investigating the incident told YouTube employees that it involved inappropriate messages to a minor.