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Only 6 players hold on to perfect pick’ems halfway through the League 2021 Worlds quarterfinals

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Time Stamp: October 23, 2021 9:02 PM - Modified On: October 23, 2021 - Published By:
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The League of Legends 2021 World Championship is quickly coming to a close. Since the start of the event, we’ve had to say painful goodbyes to former world champions, yet also welcome new competitors into the later stages of the tournament. This has dealt a major blow to the pick’ems of millions of players. Out of the 6,011,257 players that participated in this year’s pick’ems to the order of how teams advance through Worlds, only six remain perfect at the halfway point of the quarterfinals. These players successfully predicted upsets

How much does Pokimane make on Twitch?

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Time Stamp: October 18, 2021 5:57 PM - Modified On: October 18, 2021 - Published By:
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Pokimane is among the most popular female content creators on Twitch, and as such, her payout from the platform was included in the Twitch leaks from earlier this month. The data breach on Twitch, which included payouts to streamers that spanned from August 2019 to October 2021, showed Pokimane as the highest-paid female content creator on the platform over that time and the 39th highest-paid overall.  Pokimane’s total payout for the 26-month period came out to $1,528,303. That pay only included subscriptions, bit donations, and advertisement revenue. The number does

MrBeast is recreating the popular show Squid Game

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Time Stamp: October 14, 2021 5:12 PM - Modified On: October 14, 2021 - Published By:
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MrBeast, the popular YouTuber known for his outrageous YouTube videos typically involving a chance to win large sums of money, is bringing the popular Squid Game series to life.  Squid Game is the latest Netflix hit series. The South Korean show focuses on 456 players participating in a series of dangerous events to win an enormous cash prize. But losing a game results in death, leaving little room for error. The show has accumulated hundreds of millions of views since its release and is Netflix’s most-watched show right now.  MrBeast

XSET looks to tackle DMCA issues with new music platform, StreamJ

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Time Stamp: October 14, 2021 2:08 PM - Modified On: October 14, 2021 - Published By:
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DMCA takedowns are the bane of every gaming streamer’s existence. And with many top publishing companies proving to be extremely litigious, the issue isn’t going away anytime soon. But with the help of its connections to the music industry, XSET has found a way to give streamers music to play on stream, while at the same time helping up-and-coming musicians get much-needed exposure. XSET announced today that it’s partnered with DMCA-free music brand PRTL to create a space for streamers to find music that they can stream for free called

Blizzard Removes “Greenskin” References In World Of Warcraft

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Time Stamp: October 14, 2021 11:01 AM - Modified On: October 14, 2021 - Published By:
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Top Gamesimage courtesy of Activision BlizzardBlizzard has removed the majority of "greenskin" references in World of Warcraft, a phrase often used by humans in-game to refer to orcs. In a recent attempt to bring World of Warcraft more in-line with modern audiences, certain references and dialogue remarks have been toned down or removed from the game. Bar a few exceptions, phrases containing the term "greenskin" have been altered or removed completely.The term "greenskin" has largely been used in WoW by Alliance and human NPCs to refer to orcs, with the

EA’s potential FIFA rebrand reportedly stems from FIFA asking for $1 billion for naming rights

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Time Stamp: October 13, 2021 8:51 PM - Modified On: October 13, 2021 - Published By:
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Last week, Electronic Arts reported the company was looking at potentially rebranding its popular FIFA brand of sports games as it reviews the naming rights agreement with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). According to a new report from the New York Times, this rebrand hinges specifically on FIFA asking for $1 billion every four years to license its properties. This new deal would also reportedly include limitations on ways that EA could monetize the game outside of its initial sale. The NYT noted it had talked to “multiple

Putting together the puzzle: Team Liquid’s rocky return to the Worlds stage

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Time Stamp: October 10, 2021 6:49 PM - Modified On: October 10, 2021 - Published By:
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The last string that held Team Liquid together broke. The multi-time LCS champion team committed millions of dollars this past November, signing two high-profile free agents and renewing its mid laner to one of the biggest extensions in the league—and now, it looked all for naught.  It had already been a rough June for Liquid. One of those stars, top laner Alphari, got benched amid behavioral issues early in the month, and the other, Santorin, played through debilitating migraines and needed time to recover. Yet there was one more unforeseen

Full list of all Twitch payouts (Twitch leaks)

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Time Stamp: October 10, 2021 3:15 PM - Modified On: October 10, 2021 - Published By:
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A breach of Twitch’s data exposed information regarding payouts for streamers over the course of the past 26 months, and as you might expect, some of the platform’s top streamers have made millions. The Twitch payout leaks only include money from subscriptions, bit donations, and advertisement revenue. The figures do not include any personal sponsorships or direct donations a streamer might have had over that period of time. The payouts also do not include any money they may have received from Twitch directly for signing a contract to stream exclusively