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ZylTV, a young Twitch streamer, has been streaming every day for 10 hours a day to raise money for his father’s medical treatment. According to Zyl, his father has been diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer and needs the money for his medication. ZylTV, a 13 year old Canadian streamer, has raised $13,000 Canadian, about $10,000 in US dollars, by streaming Fortnite for the past 5 days with the stream title “Raising money for my father come join :)....

Yubo is a live social discovery platform that lets you meet people by communicating with them in real time through live streams. While the platform has been incredibly successful among Gen Z for helping them to make new friends, like all online social platforms, there can still be instances of harmful or offensive behaviour. Yubo is tackling this issue head-on with their latest introduction of audio moderation. How does Yubo’s audio moderation work?...

Director Zack Snyder is replacing actor Chris D’Elia with Tig Notaro (Star Trek: Discovery) for his new zombie movie, Army of the Dead, according to Deadline. Reshoots are planned to incorporate Notaro into the movie since Army of the Dead has already completed shooting and is currently in post-production for a 2021 debut on Netflix. The move comes after D’Elia was accused this past June of multiple instances of sexual misconduct involving underage girls....

Zack Snyder’s Justice League sure took its time, but now that the much-improved version of the DC film is here, Warner Bros. and HBO Max are not shy of milking everything they can out of it. Now, as if the Snyder Cut’s 4:3 screen format wasn’t enough to single it out from its predecessor, the film is about to get even darker. Despite them being essentially the same story, albeit, through very different lenses, Zack Snyder’s Justice League has earned favorable reviews compared to the Joss Whedon version from back in 2017 and there are more than a few good reasons for that....

What Does Video Artifact Mean? A video artifact is a noticeable distortion in the quality of video, brought about due to lossy data compression. Lossy data compression is done in order to simplify the video such that it can be stored within a smaller disk space or transmitted more easily. Techopedia Explains Video Artifact A video artifact occurs when the quality of the video is compromised in order to store the video within the desired disk space or transmit it on the desired bandwidth....

What Does Impression Mean? The word “impression” in IT can be used to refer to how many times a piece of social media content is seen by a user. This type of metric can be used for the purposes of marketing or affiliate marketing, or simply to measure the popularity or viral status of a particular post or object. Techopedia Explains Impression In general, the word “impression” is replacing terms like “page views” which have been the norm for most of the history of the Web....

What Does Google Chromium Mean? Google Chromium is an open-source version of the Google Chrome browser. The project dates back to 2008 – over a series of years, open-source developers worked on Chromium releases that would bring open-source design to Google’s browser offering. Techopedia Explains Google Chromium Many user questions around Google Chromium have to do with what it is – not everybody understands that it is essentially an open-source version of the browser that goes along with the development of the licensed product Google Chrome....

The 1966 animated television special It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown has become a perennial Halloween standard. Starring the Peanuts gang created by Charles M. Schulz, it is not, however, a horror classic. “It’s not even on the scale,” says film analyst and Peanuts historian Derrick Bang. “It’s too sweet and gentle. The only thing mildly spooky is the title credit sequence.” What the special lacked in fear it made up for in wonder....

Find out why one writer thinks that 2007’s Call of Duty 4, Super Mario Galaxy, BioShock, Mass Effect, and many other titles make it the best year in video gaming history. A couple of weeks ago, one of my peers claimed that 1998 was the best year in gaming history. At first glance, I had to agree with his assessment. After all, 1998 was the year that the Pokemon craze exploded outside of Japan, and 1998 was also the year that gave us gaming masterpieces such as The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Metal Gear Solid....

Whenever Nintendo and Game Freak release a new Pokémon game, you usually expect high sales at best and decent sales at worst. However, Pokémon Legends: Arceus has blown past most expectations and seems poised to influence subsequent franchise entries. Of course, that raises an important question: If Pokemon Legends: Arceus truly represents the future of Pokemon, could it supplant the “traditional” mechanics from previous games going forward? On February 3rd, Nintendo of America tweeted that Pokémon Legends: Arceus had sold over 6....

A couple of years ago, after numerous petitions and a ton of fan demand, Capcom finally announced plans to create a Resident Evil 2 remake. Capcom has shared very little concrete information since the game’s announcement, but a potential leak may at least reveal whether the Resident Evil 2 remake is third-person like the original or if it uses the first-person view seen in the more recent Resident Evil 7....

Players of World of Warcraft know that all their characters belong to a faction: the Alliance or the Horde. Thanks to Blizzard’s expansive Warcraft lore, it seems a lot of parties have individual stakes on the fate of Azeroth and the universe around it. In turn, player actions almost always affect their standing with any number of these minor groups. Interestingly, minor factions in WoW don’t just revolve around racial groups or local communities....

Blizzard Entertainment released World of Warcraft Classic in August 2019, giving fans of the long-running MMORPG the opportunity to relive its original iteration. That was a success for the developer, as WoW Classic hit one million concurrent Twitch viewers on its first day of release, so it makes sense that its first expansion is also coming back via World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic this year. While there is no clear release date as of this writing, some lucky fans can now access the expansion’s closed beta....

Xbox’s Major Nelson has revealed May’s line-up of Games with Gold titles, free for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. As is standard with the Xbox Games with Gold program these days, May 2017 will feature two titles for Xbox One and two titles for Xbox 360. Though with digital Backwards Compatibility all four games will run smoothly on Xbox One. First on Xbox One in May 2017 is the platformer Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams Directors Cut, which was originally released in 2012....

The Xbox Game Pass app will have some exclusive features on Samsung Galaxy devices, it has been revealed. The news comes after Microsoft announced that Xbox Game Pass and its game streaming service Project xCloud would be available on Android devices from next month. The Verge reports that the Samsung Galaxy Store, which is a storefront only available on Samsung Galaxy devices, will feature a special version of the Xbox Game Pass app....

Starting with this week’s update, Xbox owners are now able to pre-load certain Xbox Game Pass games to the Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S before they launch on the ever-popular subscription service. Part of a new dashboard update that also adds some new key features to the family of consoles, the pre-load addition will make it easier for fans to start a game as soon as it arrives on the service, rather than wait for any installs or updates....

It would be an understatement to say that Microsoft’s recent announcement that they would begin offering Xbox One bundles at a reduced price without a Kinect has shaken up gamers everywhere. As something that was once purported to be an essential part of the console’s experience, the sudden shift left many gamers feeling cheated and provided another spark in the ever-present console wars. Amid all the buzz this announcement generated, certain aspects of the fine print went largely unnoticed....

The Xbox One Spring update is almost upon us and will be rolling out to Alpha Ring Xbox Insiders today. The rest of the Xbox community will need to wait a little while longer before getting the update, but there is a variety of new features that Microsoft will be implementing on Xbox One consoles to look forward to this spring. First up, the Spring update will allow the Xbox One X and Xbox One S to support 1440p for both games and media....

After months of leaks and speculation, Microsoft has finally confirmed the existence of the Xbox Series S. The most noteworthy feature of the upcoming console may just be its price. At just $299, the Xbox Series S not only has the honor of being the first next-gen console with a confirmed price point, but it will likely end up being the most affordable next-gen console by at least $50-$100 (based on current estimates)....

Want to get the Xbox Series X? It’ll cost you $499. If you want to be among the first gamers to play Xbox Series X, then you might be interested in pre-ordering the console. Luckily, you can do so starting on Sept. 22 ahead of the console’s Nov. 10 launch. Microsoft made the announcement on Twitter and in a blog post this morning: Players will also be able to pay for the next-gen console in 24 monthly installments through an Xbox All Access subscription, which will also grant you access to 24 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (now including EA Play) for $34....