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Is Streaming Movies To Friends Through Discord And Zoom Legal?

In these exceptionally strange times, people everywhere are finding new ways to socialize while maintaining physical isolation from friends, family, and everyone else on the planet. That isolation means no more gathering to watch movies together on the couch, but users on conferencing platforms like Zoom and Discord are engaging in a smart workaround: watching movies digitally together using these platforms' streaming and screen-sharing capabilities.Streaming movies and other media through platforms like Zoom and Discord is easy and fun, and it provides a small modicum of normality in this abnormal

Maneater Exclusive dev diary explores meaty story bits & the ‘shark experience’

As we roll through 2020, one of the most important questions remains: when can we play Maneater? The shark-centered action RPG from Tripwire Interactive has been nothing short of delightful in its every appearance. Unfortunately, we still don’t have an answer to that question quite yet, but we do have a lovely new developer diary from Tripwire Interactive going in depth into story design philosophy behind the game. Yes, there is a philosophy in devouring all challengers to grow big and strong. Tripwire Interactive shared their latest developer diary with

Rocksmith 2014 Edition DLC Ends After 383 Weeks, Team Moves On To New Project

Rocksmith 2014 Edition is ending its DLC support after over five years of weekly releases. The newly released Opeth song pack is the final piece releasing, Ubisoft has announced, and the game's library is now complete after 383 weeks straight of DLC releases. Rocksmith 2014 Edition now features 1570 songs if you bought all the DLC, spanning seven decades of artists (plus Bach, an 18th century outlier). According to the post to the Rocksmith website, the team is moving away from DLC because they have "been hard at work on

Terraform: The Making of Doom 64

JOHN ROMERO'S EYES FOLLOWED THE engineer as he placed his cargo on the pool table. Their visitor hailed from Sega, and the item he placed on id Software's pool table was a motherboard, still in prototype stage. When completed, it would power the 32X, Sega's add-on hardware that would evolve the Genesis console from a 16-bit dinosaur into a 32-bit giant. Romero and the rest of id Software's small team gathered 'round as the engineer set a monitor on the felt surface, plugged the prototype into it, and powered it

Sony Creates $100 Million Fund To Support COVID-19 Relief

Sony has announced that it will be committing $100 million in support of COVID-19 relief around the world. The fund is called the "Sony Global Relief Fund for COVID-19," with the intention of providing much-needed relief to those in need during this crisis.Support will be divided into three main areas:Assistance to individuals engaged in the medical field like doctors, nurses, and first responders efforts fighting the virus on the front-lines.Implementing new forms of education for children and educators who can no longer attend school and must work from home.Support for

The 38 Best Video Game Soundtracks You Can Stream

Many songs from video games enter our minds and stay with us forever. Whenever someone mentions the Lost Woods in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, I don't think about the puzzling labyrinth inside; I think about the melodic jingle that loops over and over again as I explore the forest. Video game soundtracks can be as powerful and sometimes even more memorable than the gameplay experience itself. There's a seemingly endless supply of wonderful video game soundtracks, and many of them are available to stream on services like

Inside & Limbo developer Playdead is hiring for its next project

No doubt Playdead is scheming all new ways to creep us all out with its third game. Playdead is iconic for a number of reasons at this point. Limbo and Inside, while very different games in a lot of ways, have made a bit of a trademark for the indie studio as a developer of haunting and rather creepy platforming games. Playdead has been rumored to be working on something new for a while, and now it would seem they’re looking for a little extra help with that something. They’re

Twitch Stream Aid 2020 goes live Saturday to save lives

If you don't have anything going on this Saturday, consider tuning in to check out Twitch's livestream setup. What are you doing this weekend? The answer to that, if you're practicing social distancing, is probably not a lot. So if you're going to be sitting and doing very little anyway, you might want to check out Twitch's Stream Aid 2020 event, which is kicking off on Saturday. The benefit event on the streaming website will feature a litany of different celebrity guests, plenty of music, and gaming events as well.