Last weekend, the current LCK finals of the Korean Spring Split took place in League of Legends. Gen.G faced off against T1, marking the clash between the two mid-laners Chovy and Faker. This match set 2 new records for both teams.
On April 14, 2024, the final of the LCK Spring Split 2024 occurred. Gen.G played against T1 in the finals. The legendary players Chovy and Faker faced each other for the hundredth time. The Spring Split finals are particularly interesting because the winner qualifies directly for the Bracket Stage of the Mid Season Invitationals (MSI). This is crucial because the MSI winner directly qualifies for the World Championship.
Gen.G won the finals against T1 in a close 3:2. T1, as the runner-up, now has to qualify for MSI in the Play-in Stage. The match between the two legendary mid-laners drew a new viewer record in the LCK.
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The Life of Faker – Why He is a Living Legend
The match between the two teams attracted over 2.6 million viewers. This is the highest viewership that the Korean league has ever achieved, according to escharts.com. Previously, the highest number was during the Summer Finals of the LCK 2023 with around 1.5 million viewers. At that time, it was also the match between Gen.G and T1. However, it’s important to note that Chinese viewer numbers are not included.
While these are not numbers like at Worlds 2023, which reached over 6 million viewers, it is evident that the Korean league is more popular than other leagues. The LCS only reached a peak of about 246,000 viewers in its 2024 Spring Playoffs.
As can be seen from the other numbers in the LCK, this is also due to the status of the respective players. The match “Chovy against the legend Faker” simply attracts many viewers worldwide. As user @candy_dandy24 on x.com shows, it is primarily T1’s games that draw in a lot of viewers.
In the state of Texas, more than 4,000 positions are to be replaced by AI. This aims to save money and simplify work. However, enthusiasm is limited, as the software still seems to be error-prone.
Artificial intelligence repeatedly causes excitement. As the colleagues from the English-language magazine The Verge report, the US state of Texas wants to introduce a new regulation to replace humans with AI: Currently, state exams are evaluated by humans, but that is supposed to change.
Exams will be taken over by AI and are to replace 4,000 positions
What is changing in Texas? In the future, AI will be responsible for evaluating state exams in Texas, which will reduce the number of examiners from 6,000 in 2023 to less than 2,000 in 2024. The government promises savings of 20 million euros.
Specifically, the artificial intelligence should evaluate the students’ skills in reading, writing, science, and social studies in the future. The problems are allegedly supposed to be limited because the AI has been trained with 3,000 answers from previous exams.
What are the reactions? The Director of the Texas Education Agency (TEA), Jose Rios, stated that the agency wants to retain as many constructed, open-ended responses as possible, but the evaluation takes an incredible amount of time. With AI, they aim to save a lot of time and money.
However, not everyone is caught up in the agency’s enthusiasm. The Superintendent of the Lewisville Independent School District, Lori Rapp, stated that her district saw a “drastic increase” in constructed responses that were rated zero points. Here, the automatic system was tested for the first time.
Rapp explained that it is currently unclear whether the test questions were faulty or if the AI made errors. This still needs to be examined.
Replacing employees with AI is controversial and rarely well-received
What does the current situation look like? It is not uncommon for companies to replace their employees with AI. A good AI can take on a lot of work and replace people. Companies then like to talk about “cost optimization.” More and more people report that they are losing their jobs to AI or are receiving fewer orders because artificial intelligence is taking over these tasks.
Are there secure jobs? The head of ChatGPT explained in an interview which occupations cannot be replaced by AI. In total, he thought of 34 professions that are safe from artificial intelligence. In addition to bus drivers and hairdressers, there are also some other, less well-known jobs:
In a few months, all Blizzard games will be available on the Chinese market after a long break. This could have an extremely positive impact on the player numbers for World of Warcraft – as shown by an official tweet from Blizzard’s partner Netease.
What is the tweet from Netease about? Blizzard’s Chinese partner released some exciting statistics a few days after the announcement of the return of all Blizzard games to China. These show how eager Chinese players are for World of Warcraft after the 15-month forced break.
In just two days, two million players have pre-registered for the Chinese version of WoW.
More than 92,000 accounts have been successfully restored up to this point.
Nearly 147,000 accounts have been successfully reactivated.
With over 950,000 comments, the community has expressed opinions on the reconstruction of the destroyed “Gorehowl” statue. Some of these comments will be immortalized on the new replica.
More than 1,000 applications have been received for the new Blizzard/Netease office in China.
The upcoming WoW expansion The War Within brings exciting new features:
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WoW: The War Within – All the major features of the new expansion
What does the return of China mean for Blizzard? The Chinese market has been enormously important for Blizzard for many years. How important is shown by the numbers of monthly active users (MAUs) from Activision Blizzard’s quarterly reports from 2022 and 2023.
According to the report for the fourth quarter of 2022, 45 million players were active in various Blizzard titles – this was before the loss of the Chinese market (via Activision Blizzard).
After the end of the collaboration with Netease, the number of MAUs fell to 26 million in the second quarter of 2023 (via Activision Blizzard). These are all players who suddenly no longer transfer money to California.
We assume that pre-registrations in China did not simply stop after the tweet was released. By now, the number is likely to be significantly higher. At the same time, information from GDC 2024 lets us guess how many players currently have an active WoW subscription (the estimate is 7+ million players worldwide).
This summer, not only is the return of Chinese players expected, but also an unusual amount is happening on WoW servers:
On May 1, 2024, the pre-patch for Cataclysm Classic will be released, on May 21, Deathwing will break free from his prison and unleash the Cataclysm.
The Season of Discoveries in WoW Classic will open the Level 60 area in the summer, with new endgame challenges.
The new WoW expansion, The War Within, will arrive this summer, marking the start of the three-part World Soul saga.
If we put all of this together – the return of the Chinese players and the new content for modern WoW as well as WoW Classic – Blizzard is likely to surpass the mark of 10+ million active players with World of Warcraft this summer. Not bad for an almost 20-year-old MMORPG that continues to rely on a subscription model and has no console version. Or what do you think?
Time and again, the discussion arises about what the most powerful spell in Baldur’s Gate 3 is. Yet hardly anyone thinks of the most explosive one: Barrelmancy. How to become a true barrel wizard, you’ll read here.
What is Barrelmancy? Barrelmancy or barrel magic is a meme from the release time of Baldur’s Gate 3. Players gather as many explosive barrels as they can and place them around the enemies that stand in their way. All it takes then is a spark of fire, and everything goes up in a grand chain reaction.
For each barrel placed, you deal a total of six W6 damage – so between 6 and 36 points of damage. That’s only two W6 less than the popular fireball spell. And the barrel doesn’t cost you a spell slot.
Some players have recorded their adventures with Barrelmancy on video:
Casting explosions without casting – How does that work?
But how does Barrelmancy work? As mentioned above, it’s quite simple to become a barrel wizard:
Collect all the marked oil barrels you can find
Distribute the barrels around your opponent
Shoot a fire arrow or a fire spell at a barrel
Profit
Theoretically, it’s that simple. Unfortunately, it’s not in practice.
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What should you watch out for? The game actually puts some obstacles in your way when it comes to barrel magic. Here are the things to keep in mind.
Your characters have a limited carrying capacity. Each oil barrel requires 18 kilos of carrying capacity. Therefore, to place as many barrels as possible, you need a character like Barbarian Karlach with a high strength value. Still, you should expect to store many of the barrels in your inventory.
Pay attention to the distances between the barrels. If they are too far apart, there will be no chain reaction. Each barrel has an explosion radius of 6 meters. Barrels that are to be ignited by the explosion must be within this radius. This also applies to the enemies you wish to catch with the barrels.
By the way, you should ideally not be standing in the radius mentioned above when triggering the explosion.
Additionally, you should keep in mind how many hit points your enemies have: You can deal between 6 and 36 points of damage per barrel explosion. For simple enemies like goblins, a few barrels are sufficient. However, larger opponents like a Minthara have more hit points and will need a few more explosive charges to be taken down.
Should you become a Barrelmancer? The results of barrel magic are fun and absolutely entertaining. However, the necessary preparation is very time-consuming and requires a lot of planning: You need to patiently collect and store barrels until it’s time to distribute them.
The distribution itself can also take anywhere from a few minutes to hours, depending on what and who you want to blow up. Moreover, explosions are uncontrollable. You might unintentionally incinerate important quest NPCs or items.
However, if you are aware of the potential consequences, nothing stands in the way of your foray into barrel magic.
Blizzard has drastically shrunk the best boy in World of Warcraft. This is bitter for fans who have played for hundreds of hours to unlock him.
With patch 10.2.6, Blizzard introduced some new features to World of Warcraft. For collectors, one of the most important aspects was the introduction of the large “Meta-Achievements,” which occur more frequently at the end of an expansion. Here, Blizzard demands that you have played through pretty much all the content of the current expansion in detail, enticing you with special mounts and creatures.
For the achievement “A World Awoken,” there is the “Leash of the Good Boy” – that is the Bakar Taivan as a mount.
Only a small fraction of players have been able to earn the Bakar so far – and then he was shrunk by Blizzard.
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What is the problem with the mount? Days after the first players had unlocked Taivan, there was suddenly a hotfix. Overnight, the large Bakar shrunk significantly, by about 30%. While Taivan was previously quite impressive, he is now noticeably smaller and not quite as special.
This is particularly frustrating because the achievement “A World Awoken” takes a lot of time. Anyone still needing to complete all the tasks can invest several hundred hours to catch up on all the achievements.
That this reward was suddenly shrunk afterward feels bad for many who worked hard for Taivan. Therefore, the complaints are loud (via reddit).
Taivan should actually be this big – but he was shrunk. (Image source: wowhead)
Why did Blizzard do this? The reason for Taivan’s shrinkage lies in a bug with the animations. Due to the size of the mount, some aspects of the model do not function correctly, resulting in several clipping errors. As a result, Blizzard significantly reduced the size of Taivan.
Will the dog get bigger again? Yes. Blizzard has heard the loud – and very clear – feedback from fans and plans to restore Taivan to his original impressiveness with patch 10.2.7. However, they want to take their time to fix the clipping errors so that the Bakar can afterwards show in full glory that he is simply “the best boy” (via Blizzard).
Who is Taivan? You met the Bakar dog Taivan in the plains of Ohn’ahra if you followed the quest line attentively. Taivan is an especially large Bakar, but initially, he is unsuitable for any task. Bakars have special duties with the centaur. They either help with hunting or herding various livestock. However, Taivan is suited for neither – he is too anxious and playful to be able to perform either task, which frustrates the centaur.
Taivan’s true talent reveals itself as a rescue and therapy dog. Because he helps rescue buried centaurs from the ruins of a city and afterwards warms the heart of a boy who previously did not want to speak to anyone.
Just the quest line was enough for many fans to take Taivan to their hearts – the Bakar who is so different from his brothers and sisters, but whose special behavior makes him just as important.
Have you unlocked Taivan yet? Or is the achievement just too exhausting?
Currently, you can find the Spring Offers in the Playstation Store. If you are looking for a good game for the weekend, a game on the PS5 could be just the right thing. And it costs you only 5 euros.
Which game are we talking about? 60 Seconds! Reatomized is a post-apocalyptic adventure from 2020, and primarily a game for fans of dark humor. It can be described as a narrative survival game, as ultimately your goal is to lead a family safely through the nuclear apocalypse.
You can play the game on PS4/PS5, Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo Switch. However, in the PS Store, you can currently get it for 50% off.
In the trailer, you get to know your new family and can take a first look at the gameplay:
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Survive the Apocalypse in 60 Seconds! Reatomized
Until when does the offer run? The offer in the Playstation Store runs until April 25, 2024. Until then, you can get 60 Seconds! Reatomized for €4.99 instead of the full price of €9.99.
You can download the game there in the PS4 version. However, since it has quite simple graphics and the gameplay is not particularly demanding, it should also look and run very well on the PS5.
What can you expect? In 60 Seconds! Reatomized, you want to survive the nuclear apocalypse as a family. This is just about to happen at the beginning of the game. As a player, you choose to control either the father or the mother and then have exactly 60 seconds to throw all the important things from your house into your bunker.
While doing this, you should not forget your family members. Because unfortunately, they won’t do anything on their own. You also cannot carry an unlimited number of items at once. So you need to plan a bit about what you can accomplish in the 60 seconds, what might really be important, and ensure to leave enough time for yourself to jump into the bunker as well.
After that, the whole game takes place in the bunker. With all the items and family members you managed to secure and a few supplies. Through point-and-click, you can then interact with the various items in your bunker and must make important decisions here and there.
You decide, for example, who gets which supply on which day. Or who should leave the bunker and what they should take with them on their way. Every decision has a consequence at the end of the day or in the long run. Keep in mind that your family members may be in a worse mood or even go a bit crazy with each passing day.
A diary entry then summarizes what happened due to your decisions, who survived to see a new day, and whether there were any special occurrences. There are so many possibilities that you can really play the game often without experiencing the same sequence again.
Your goal, of course, is to ensure your family’s survival for as long as possible, ideally until it is safe to leave the bunker again.
The MMORPG Throne and Liberty is set to be released in the West in 2024 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X. Amazon is bringing the online role-playing game to the West; it has been running in South Korea since 2023. Now, in April 2024, a beta test is taking place that is supposed to be confidential. However, players are talking about it.
What kind of test is this?
This is a closed beta test for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. It started on April 10 at 10 PM and ends on April 17, 2024.
The test focuses on combat, economy, and player progression. Every day, there is a special event in the evening, a castle siege or a world boss.
The test is supposed to be secret, and players have to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) – that’s why there won’t be much video material. Nevertheless, players are talking about the test.
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Throne and Liberty showcases itself in the German trailer for the closed beta
“True MMORPG” and “Next Gen”
What do the players say? Although everything is strictly confidential, there is a thread on reddit with 142 comments about Throne and Liberty. Some users express their thoughts who are clearly logging into the game for the first time.
In the opening post, the MMORPG is primarily seen as direct competition to the Western MMORPG Ashes of Creation:
Above all, the graphics and animations of the game are praised. Several players say that this is finally a “next-gen” MMORPG. The graphics blew them away:
The biggest advantage of Throne and Liberty is that it looks stunning and runs really well. For me, it’s the most beautiful MMO on the market; it’s also a true MMORPG with an open, seamless game world filled with many players, which feels good after many titles that focused on a game with many instances.
Another player finds it great that you can teleport back to the village seamlessly.
What do others say? Not everyone is so enthusiastic.
Among the milder critics is a user who says: The game looks great, but he doesn’t like the controls. It feels like wrestling with a slippery cat.
Others let their veteran status show and say: The thread creator will soon take a look around when he realizes how boring the game becomes.
Others say: The developers need to dial back the microtransactions.
The harshest criticism states: This is “Korean garbage” that looks nice but is not fun to play, designed to empty your wallet.
The story behind it: So a high level of enthusiasm doesn’t quite match the reaction that Throne and Liberty is currently receiving in South Korea. There, the game is considered problematic. At a developers’ conference, the bosses of NCSoft were pressured regarding the current state of their company, that they even had to announce Guild Wars 3.
The developers are working on the game, though.
At least there’s good news that the game looks good and runs well.
Throne and Liberty will likely be the biggest new MMORPG of 2024, despite all criticism, and many will try it out. Not least because it is coming out for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
It is to be hoped that Amazon will soon give us the opportunity to see the game for ourselves and perhaps without an NDA.
Who is NoahZett28 actually? We from MeinMMO present to you the 23-year-old German Twitch streamer and how he managed to become so successful.
Who is NoahZett28? Noah “NoahZett28” Zimmermann is a 23-year-old German streamer, who became known mainly through his Twitch and TikTok channel. He gained significant visibility for the first time through a raid by Montanablack in the spring of 2021.
In a video recently published on YouTube, he reports that he only started playing video games late and discovered the internet only at the age of 16. Before that, he had little contact with it.
In his video, he emphasizes several times that it is not his goal to become rich. He would be completely satisfied even if he only had two viewers in a few years. His main concern is to enjoy the present time and do what he enjoys. If his success on Twitch were to wane, he would consider going back to studying.
This is how well it is going for NoahZett28: The Twitch streamer states that he has been actively streaming on Twitch for three years and sharing his content on various social media platforms. During this time, he has seen continuous growth.
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From Cutter to Successful Streamer
How did he become a streamer? His career began initially as a viewer. At first, he watched a lot of Montanablack and then a few years later became aware of Knossi, whom he followed regularly. At some point, he started editing clips for Knossi and also had personal contact with the streamer, who invited him to parties, for example.
It was ultimately Knossi who advised him not just to remain behind the camera, but to start streaming himself. Within three years, he has managed to reach over 211,000 followers.
He himself is surprised that he has been able to stream for so long. He cites his ADHD as the reason and discusses his difficulties with it in everyday life. Especially in his early days, he also completed his high school diploma while streaming and then studied afterward.
By now, he is also involved in large projects with other streamers like Trymacs, such as the No-Food-Challenge or the bike tour to Denmark.
What does his current content look like? NoahZett28’s current content seems to be a mix of Just Chatting content, mainly a lot of FIFA, but also other games like Brawl Stars or Among Us are visible on his channel.
What can we expect from NoahZett28 in the future? In his video, he also talks about what he plans for the future and emphasizes especially that he wants to do more IRL streams. He mentions that he is interested in going to places like the Movie Park and taking the stream with him. Additionally, he wants to produce more reaction streams and Just Chatting content in the future.
The streamer has already participated in several projects with his larger colleagues, for example when Trymacs played Sons of the Forest with him and other friends. You can read more about it here:
Since the success of 7 vs. Wild, the outdoor scene on YouTube has been booming. A new format from a former candidate is now sending unprepared contestants to the Bundeswehr.
What kind of format is this? The format “Bulletproof – The Challenge” from 7 vs. Wild former contestant and outdoor professional Ottogerd “Bulletproof” Karasch sends unprepared people to a training course at the Bundeswehr.
In the series, it becomes clear that the candidates were not entirely aware of what they were getting into. Accordingly, the fitness levels of the individual candidates vary significantly.
During the 48-hour training course at the Bundeswehr, the 15 candidates are divided into 5 teams of 3 and must complete various challenges together as a team. Depending on the criteria of the tasks, points are awarded, and in the end, there will be a winning team.
You can find out who the first successful streamers were here:
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Twitch: Who were actually the first successful streamers?
The candidates could not be more different
Who is participating? Similar to 7 vs. Wild, the participant field is a colorful mix. The five teams consist of the following candidates:
Team Streamer
Maximilian “Trymacs” Stemmler
Niclos “How To Be Human” Stemmler
Ronny Berger
Team MMA Spirit – consisting of MMA fighters
Max Coga
Katharina Dalisda
Patrick Vespazian
Team Schlappen – consisting of the freerunning group “Schlappen”
Jan “Schlappen” Lange
Etienne “Schlappen”
Dwayne “Schlappen”
Team Ninjafit – consisting of participants from Ninja Warrior competitions
Arleen Schüßler
Benedikt Sigmund
Keno Ruest
Team YouTube
David “Dave” Henrichs
Max Pane
Aaron Donker – not a YouTuber, but a former NFL player
Not only the teams but also the individual candidates have their own strengths and weaknesses that they bring to the exercise.
How does the series proceed? Currently, after the first episode, all teams have completed the first challenge. Initially, the teams were woken up early in the morning, had to get ready quickly, and then pack their bags with all the essentials for the next two days in a hurry. Then it was off to the first challenge.
In the first challenge, the teams had to complete an obstacle course, with points awarded based on their placement measured against the time taken. After the exercise, it was almost immediately on to the next challenge – of course, the route there needed to be walked on foot with all the luggage. The 48-hour exercise is a so-called continuous exercise, where the candidates receive hardly any breaks.
Episode two has already appeared on YouTube; to avoid spoilers, we will only refer to episode one. The latest episode can already be watched in advance on Joyn.
Does the series compete with 7 vs. Wild? Yes and no. The series operates quite differently from 7 vs. Wild, but there are also parallels. Once again, a mixed participant field is placed in an extreme situation to see how people perform.
The series also brings back familiar faces from different areas, similar to 7 vs. Wild. Former contestants like Jan Schlappen and Trymacs are also included.
However, the structure of the series is so different that both series can probably coexist without issues, especially since they also air at different times. Otto Bulletproof, the organizer of the show, had previously experienced tension with 7 vs. Wild founder Fritz Meinecke over a YouTube format.
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In Elden Ring, you can find the katana “Bloodstreams” to build powerful builds. You can find out where the location of this weapon is and how to obtain the mystical sword with us.
Update, April 12: The headline and teaser text have been rephrased.
The sword “Bloodstreams” is among the best katanas in the game. Those who build a refined Dex/Arcane build can deal massive damage with Bloodstreams, as long as the enemies are flesh and blood.
But if you take a wrong turn, you can completely miss the katana. Only late in New Game+ will it be available to you again. Here’s how to find it in time and avoid this issue.
Elden Ring: Bloodstreams – Location on the Map
Where can I find the weapon? You will find the katana Bloodstreams only in the late game, in the region of the Mountaintops of the Giants. You can only reach this region after fighting through the capital Leyndell.
You will find the katana in the Church of Rest. There, you will be attacked by the NPC invader Okina, who uses this powerful blade. If you kill him, you will receive both Bloodstreams and a mask that complements the sword very well.
If you follow the guidance of grace on the mountaintops of the giants, you will come near the katana’s location: the Church of Rest. But don’t go too far east!
Although the Church of Rest is not far from the lift that takes you to the mountains on the map, you will have to walk a long way to get to the katana’s location.
First, follow the guidance of grace to the northeast to a frozen lake.
At the lake, walk south until you reach the First Church of Marika.
From there, walk west to the Guardian’s Garrison.
Further south, walk across an oversized chain to the relevant part of the region.
Here, continue riding southwest, where you will find the Church of Rest.
It’s important that you do not wander further east and possibly miss the church. Because if you follow the story there, you will ensure that you cannot obtain the katana Bloodstreams in this playthrough.
You can miss Bloodstreams – Here’s how to get it safely
So you can miss Bloodstreams: The Forge of Giants is located a bit east of the Church of Rest. In front of it, the Fire Giant awaits you as a boss. If you defeat the Fire Giant and continue the story at the Forge of Giants, all invasions like that of Okina will be disabled for the rest of the story.
This means that after defeating the Fire Giant, you can completely miss the katana until you come back to the Mountaintops of the Giants in New Game+ or with a new character.
Very sneaky: The chain bridge leading to the Fire Giant is practically right next to the katana’s location. So if you want to use the katana, you should ensure that you defeat Okina before the Fire Giant. This way, you can grab the sword before it’s too late.
This is how you find Bloodstreams, the bloodiest katana in Elden Ring. Are you already using the sword? If yes, what is your build? Do you think the weapon is stronger than other top weapons? Do you find this weapon overpowered? Let us know in the comments.
If you want to see all endings but want to make it as easy as possible for yourself, there is a simple trick. With a clever save point, you can unlock all endings in a few minutes:
Successful shooter streamers earn a fortune on Twitch. Fortnite star Clix bought a Lamborghini at 18. His friend Stable Ronaldo treated himself to a Porsche 991 GT3 at 21. But bigger is Twitch streamer Jyxnz (22), who is known for Rainbow Six Siege . He is making the dad flex.
While Jynxzi is successful with a shooter, the top gaming category on Twitch, it is an unusual one: His thing is the tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege.
Now he is making headlines with the purchase of a luxury car, but a bit differently than one might expect.
At 18, Fortnite streamer Clix bought a Lamborghini:
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Streamer fulfills a dream for his father
What did he buy? The streamer bought a 2022 Porsche 911 Carrera. It is available new starting at €122,500 from Porsche.
But the streamer didn’t get the car for himself, but for his father. The gift was to thank him for supporting him in starting his streaming career.
Jynxzi says he has always dreamed of buying his father his dream car.
How did the father react? The situation apparently comes as a surprise and somewhat casually, without a big reason. Apparently, Jynxzi and his team initially wanted to surprise the father, but then he left the house and Jynxzi quickly intercepted him and improvised.
The father seems a bit puzzled and initially thinks it’s a joke.
Jynxzi actually appears a bit uncertain whether the father is even happy about the car. After all, he once said he liked Porsches.
Finally, the dad asks: Where should I put the thing? The son must know: The garage is not suitable for such an expensive car at all. Jynxzi quickly helps out: We probably need to clean the garage, and then we need something to cover it; in the meantime, the car can be parked elsewhere.
And then the joy slowly sets in: “I love you too,” says the father and hugs him.
By the way: Traditionally, as a Twitch streamer, you don’t give gifts to mothers; you hire them as cooks.
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For many in the USA, it is a dream to send their parents “into retirement” and provide them with a carefree life in old age. A dream that not many can fulfill:
The Twitch streamer Trymacs is upset about a private club where he and other German Twitch streamers were celebrating after an event by Red Bull. Because there, pictures were taken that he actually wanted to avoid in order to protect his younger viewers. But content creators Rewinside and Julia Beautix are even more upset than he is.
This was the situation:
Some of the biggest Twitch streamers in Germany participated in a dodgeball tournament by Red Bull in Düsseldorf.
The event took place on April 6, 2024, and Team Rewinside won.
After the event, some Twitch streamers headed to a private club in Düsseldorf to celebrate. But it was not private at all.
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Private aftershow party is much more public than streamers want
This is what Trymacs is angry about: In the current “Satter Hugo” video, some clips from the aftershow party are shown.
You can see that streamers are drinking and celebrating heartily.
As streamer Trymacs explains in his reaction to the video (via youtube), he wanted to avoid such images of himself showing him with alcohol: to protect his younger viewers:
“These are clips I wouldn’t publish in my vlogs and my content. But then there are private cameramen – FROM THE CLUB – who film it and put it online immediately. What a crap.”
He says it bothers him a lot. As a streamer, you rarely get together with other streamers, at least not in such large groups, and then at such an event, people make vlogs and photographers are everywhere. This way, you have no privacy at all.
In the future, he will stay away from such events and only celebrate with his football team alone.
A kind of hidden object picture of the German Twitch celebrities. And you can actually: play Where’s Hugo? with it. Trymacs was on the team of Papaplatte.
Private club filmed and released videos
This particularly bothers him: Trymacs is especially angry that they went to a private club to be hidden from the public. But the club itself filmed with a good camera that even shows everything in the dark:
“What kind of shit club is this?”
The club then posted these videos online and achieved several million views on TikTok with them.
In this context, the previously kept secret liaison between content creators Rewinside and Julia Beautx came to light, which is now being reported on.
Streamer Rewinside also complained about the club. There, during a private party, he was filmed with a telephoto lens without his consent, and the pictures were then published.
Rewinside is also fed up: You eat a Berliner once.
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Trymacs says he is shocked that no one has any understanding that such things should be private. On TikTok, people in the comments were unanimous that streamers have no privacy and one “should not feel sorry for millionaires.”
“That’s crazy. Just because they have been creating content for 10 years, entertaining people for free for 10 years, they shouldn’t have a private life? I find that so ridiculous.”
A close friend of the late voice actor Stephen Critchlow spent countless hours in FFXIV to hear his friend’s voice.
After British actor Stephen Critchlow passed away on September 19, 2021, at the age of 54, his voice and talent were not only missed by the film and theater world but also by the gaming community.
Which voice are we talking about? He is known as the voice of Count Edmont de Fortemps (English voice) and as a narrator in the Heavensward expansion of Final Fantasy 14. After his death, players from around the world gathered in FFXIV to honor him. They met at the Fortemps house in Ishgard.
Robert Harper, a longtime friend of Critchlow, was impressed by the warmth with which the FFXIV community honored his friend. Although he himself had been an avid gamer for over 40 years, he had never given the MMORPG a chance before. But as the first anniversary (2022) of Critchlow’s death approached, he decided to give the game a chance.
He said:
As the anniversary of Stephen’s [death] approached, I began to think about him, our times together in the 90s, and remembered how affectionately the Final Fantasy XIV community thought of him. And I thought: I want to experience what they all have experienced. I want to explore and find and fight my way through the story so that I can hear my old friend appear in Heavensward so magnificently.
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How was the journey through Eorzea? He dove deep into the game, motivated by the desire to hear his friend’s voice and honor his memories. Harper spent countless hours in the game, leveling up his crafters and gatherers. Yet his true goal was to hear his friend’s voice, and he was determined to achieve this before the anniversary of Critchlow’s death.
On September 6, 2022, shortly before the anniversary, Harper finally reached Heavensward. There he experienced the moving moment when the opening sequence was spoken by none other than Critchlow himself.
Harper also shared his emotional experience in the Final Fantasy XIV-subreddit. The post has over 5,000 upvotes and more than 200 comments.
There he describes the moment when he first heard his voice in FFXIV:
I arrived there yesterday morning around 2 AM and it was emotional. Almost 200 hours of playtime, I had immersed myself in the game and after the last scenes of A Realm Reborn, I finally heard my friend’s voice.
I don’t mind admitting that I shed a few tears. I love you, Critch, old buddy.
How did the two meet? According to GamesRadar, they met in the 90s on the set of the BBC Radio Drama Company and developed a close friendship while working on air together. “We both got a contract to be part of the BBC radio drama company for a year,” revealed Robert Harper.
There was not a day I spent with Stephen that didn’t include a lot of laughter, says the actor about his late friend. He could make a room laugh in an instant.
At the launch of the MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online, the game faced immediate issues. A multitude of reasons caused player numbers to drop, but an expansion changed the tide.
Update: We updated this article on 14.04.2024 at 13:40. An earlier version of this article named Amazon as the new owner of Zenimax Online Studios, but it was actually meant to refer to Microsoft.
What was the release of ESO like? The Elder Scrolls Online was released in 2014 and immediately faced problems:
The Elder Scrolls was only known to players as a pure single-player brand and was critically viewed by both single-player and MMORPG fans.
Some compared the game to WoW or wanted it to become the next WoW, even though ESO and WoW have little in common.
Poor balancing, where vampires were too strong, bugs and technical issues, as well as an endgame that left much to be desired, plagued players.
Although versions for PlayStation and Xbox One were announced, they never launched due to numerous problems with the PC version.
The year 2014 was a strong year for MMORPGs, with titles like WildStar and ArcheAge making it difficult for ESO.
However, with an expansion of the game, the player base could double from one day to the next.
Here you can see the trailer for The Elder Scrolls Online – Gold Road.
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The Elder Scrolls Online – Gold Road in the announcement trailer
This expansion is the reason for the game’s success
Which expansion is it? The expansion that brought success to The Elder Scrolls Online is the player expansion “Tamriel Unlimited”. At the time, it abolished the mandatory subscription, guild traders were introduced, and the game moved more towards a sandbox in terms of the legal system in the game.
The CEO of Zenimax Online Studios, the developers behind Elder Scrolls Online, recently stated: “Overnight, our login population on PC doubled simply because players could come back without having to subscribe; they could just play […] the next night it doubled again. So we knew we were on the right track.”
In just two months, the game welcomed 3 million new players and broke the mark of 500,000 concurrent players across all platforms.
How was the success continued? To ensure the expansion was not just a one-hit wonder, the developers put effort into the subsequent updates as well. A year after the release of “Tamriel Unlimited”, a major update allowed players from the three factions to play together.
CEO Matt Firor mentioned that they made a realization: “Do you really care what level you are in GTA or other modern games? No, you just log in, play, and have fun. We wanted to make ESO such a game.” Therefore, with the same update, level scaling was also introduced.
What is the status of the game’s success today? Even today, The Elder Scrolls Online is still successful. Currently, the celebration for the 10th anniversary of the game is ongoing. The CEO also revealed that the game has probably earned 2 billion dollars over its lifetime. An impressive figure.
A player purchased the game “The Crew” 9 years ago and has surprisingly received a refund.This is quite unusual, as the PS Store usually only issues refunds for 14 days.
Normally, the chances of getting a refund for a digital game are very slim. Providers like Steam or Epic Games do offer a limited refund, but this is only valid for a short period.
A player has now reported that he received a refund of nearly 100 Euros for a game that was released in 2015. This was reported by the colleagues at Comicbook.com.
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The Crew: The trailer for the racing game MMO
Player receives nearly 100 Euros back from the PlayStation Store for discontinued game
However, the mentioned player has now managed to confirm a refund for his purchase made almost ten years ago. He himself writes on reddit:
I bought the game in 2015 and haven’t played it much since then. On March 31, 2024, I contacted PlayStation Support to request a refund because the game was not working, and to my surprise, it was actually refunded.
He supports the whole story with a screenshot where one can see the confirmation of the refund from Sony and also the corresponding amount. In a second picture, you can see the receipt for the amount of 94.99 US dollars.
Why is this surprising? Normally, you can only receive a refund in the PlayStation Store within 14 days of the purchase, not nine years later. And even then, you have to be lucky for the return to be approved.
We do not know if this is an isolated case, but a refund after nine years is something that one does not usually experience on PlayStation.
The discontinuation of “The Crew” has larger implications than expected: Because by shutting down the servers, Ubisoft is likely also revoking the licenses of players who had paid for the game at that time. This is probably intended to prevent owners from reinstalling the game. Many players are disappointed about this:
The Twitch streamer Joona became the target of mockery and aggression online due to a clip on Twitter: 19.1 million viewers saw how the player supposedly behaved impossibly in Valorant. But it was precisely Asmongold who saved her honor – or rather, one of his employees.
What kind of clip is this? The clip lasts 1 minute and 22 seconds:
A player says in Valorant: “You can revive now.” Apparently, he meant LunarFox, a friend of the player, who was also in the match.
A female player responds impassively: “She knows it.” She comes across as passive-aggressive.
A discussion arises about why the player is reacting so angrily. There really is no reason for that. The discussion drags on and turns into an argument where everyone reacts annoyed. The player says that this is typical for playing as a woman.
The clip ends by showing that the player performed poorly, treated the streamer dismissively, and ultimately blocked him on Twitter.
The clip was then posted with the text: “My mistake, will never try to communicate in ranked again.”
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“This shows what’s wrong with online gaming”
How was the clip initially perceived? The clip was discussed as if the player was unreasonably in a bad mood and arrogant. She ruins the game for everyone else with her bad mood.
However, that was a “factually correct instruction over the chat,” which also contains tactically valuable information: Now is a good time to revive.
The comments lean towards “This shows what’s wrong with the community” – or even worse. “This is why online games are so bad.”
“How can she say ‘She knows it’ and have such a bad mood?”
“Joona is probably the worst passive-aggressive person in Valorant ever.”
Asmongold joined in on this criticism. From his perspective, these were players who were losing and therefore were going for each other’s throats. Asmongold emphasized that he never argues online. Because you can only lose there. From his point of view, the streamer is “extremely unbearable.”
This is the clip that 19.1 million Twitter users saw.
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But what’s the catch? The player is Joona, a Twitch streamer who is in a relationship with a professional player.
The player who supposedly innocently tells her that she can revive is also a streamer. He is the one whose clip is going viral. He even linked his Twitch channel under the clip.
As Asmongold’s editor showed in a video, this was a planned action by the streamer to create a viral clip that would give him more reach.
There’s a backstory to the clip (via twitter.com). Here you see:
The streamer recognizes Joona and acknowledges that she is a well-known person.
He urged his chat to annoy her by spamming his name in her chat and writing things like “Lightedits is the best.”
The streamer also states that he provoked her before the situation in the clip, saying “EGIRL EGIRL” and bringing her boyfriend into the game.
After the clip went viral, the streamer deleted the video, apparently to cover his tracks, as Joona says.
Because of this backstory, Joona reacts irritably when precisely this streamer seems to “politely” point out an opportunity for revival in the game.
The bad mood did not come from her, but it was a trap that the streamer set for her to make her look bad. However, all of that is missing in the clip that then went viral.
The editor judges: Someone tried to become more famous through stream sniping.
What do other people from the match say? A friend of Joona was also in the match, the streamer LunaFox. The sentence “You can revive her now” was directed at her.
In a statement to Kotaku, she says Joona said “She knows it” to make clear that LunarFox knows she can activate her ultimate and revive. Joona said this because she knows LunarFox and knows that she doesn’t like to talk when things get heated in the game. Yet the men misunderstood this as aggression.
The boyfriend of the streamer, the Valorant pro ShahZam, says to the guy: You guys were weird the whole game. That’s just how she speaks, and people think she’s upset because she doesn’t use a soft “uwu” voice. I think it’s lame; your team wanted to provoke all game long.
While Asmongold is outraged immediately, his editor steps in and explains the situation and the background:
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Did it work? The streamer who posted the clip gained 663 followers, thereby increasing his reach on Twitch eightfold. It is debatable whether the followers will stay once they realize who exactly they are following.
The streamer is an E-sports student in Canada, and the university has been notified about his behavior, as Kotaku reports. Apparently, the university is not very pleased with their student’s behavior.
It is said that they learned about the situation and will proceed with internal regulations.
What does Joona say? She is disappointed that so many people she actually respects jumped on the hate bandwagon so quickly. There was little to no context, yet people judged her personality.
Developer Jeff Strain has founded two major gaming companies in the last 20 years: ArenaNet (Guild Wars) and Undead Labs (State of Decay). Previously, he worked at Blizzard on major gaming classics. But now it’s all over, his faith in his new company is shaken. All of this after a single phone call.
Where is Jeff Strain known from?
Jeff Strain was Lead Programmer at Blizzard Entertainment, working on World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, and Warcraft 3.
Strain co-founded ArenaNet in 2000 with two others and was the head of the Production Team for the first Guild Wars, a celebrated MMORPG to this day.
In 2009, he founded Undead Labs and was the lead developer of State of Decay 1, which was also an important game.
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What was his new plan? Strain had now founded a third studio: Possibility Space. They were working on a game, but had not revealed what kind of game it would be. Only the project name “Vonnegut” was known.
“Today is their last day as employees of our studio”
Here’s how it turned out: Employees received an email stating that they are being let go and the studio is dissolving. Strain himself wants to withdraw from the gaming industry and take care of his wife, who is ill.
Why is he doing this? In an email to the employees, which was obtained by a Polygon journalist, Strain writes (via twitter): He received a call from journalist Ethan Gach from the US site Kotaku. He is currently writing about his company and the closure of Crop Circle Games, a video game company that Strain operated together with his now ill wife.
In the conversation, the journalist mentioned some business details that are strictly confidential. The journalist said he received them from current employees.
Employees have apparently leaked company secrets to the press
Strain says: This is alarming. He immediately met with the publishing partner of the company and disclosed the breach of trust. The partner lost faith in investing more money in the company. Therefore, they agreed to cancel the project “Vonnegut”.
Without the project, he is closing the studio. Today is the last day for all employees.
What kind of information is that? Nobody knows. The article Gach is writing is not online yet.
What else is known? Even the closure of the studio he operated with his wife was strange. Because his wife said she feared that the Kotaku author’s article would publish details about her health condition.
He denied on LinkedIn, however, that he intended to do so.
Gach comments on the news on Twitter and regrets that more video game developers have lost their jobs. He does not comment on his own role:
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The closure of the studio Crop Circle Games has officially occurred because they did not see a good financial chance for the projects. However, other people in the studio contradicted this.
The last time we reported on Strain it was about State of Decay 2:
A 15-year-old just wanted to have some fun and annoy his classmates. To do this, he wrote a computer virus that spread secretly. In the end, Elk Cloner infected countless systems.
Computer viruses nowadays are designed to cause as much damage as possible on infected systems. Some of the malware spreads secretly spying on users and collecting personal data and passwords undetected, similar to an AI that listens to you while typing.
Computer viruses began over 40 years ago. At that time, a student created one of the first digital pests. He had no malicious intent, unlike the modern versions. He just wanted to have fun and annoy people in his environment.
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Elk Cloner: A computer virus that just wanted to annoy
What kind of virus is this? Elk Cloner was programmed by Rich Skrenta in 1982. Victims of the computer virus were the then very popular Apple II computers, which used Apple DOS 3.3 as their operating system and were designed by Steve Wozniak, one of the 3 founders of Apple.
As a boot virus, it became active before the actual operating system started by embedding itself in the system memory. For this to happen, the computer had to be booted from an infected floppy disk. If a virus-free disk was inserted later, Elk Cloner would save itself in the boot sector.
How did Elk Cloner come about? At the age of 15, Rich Skrenta was known for writing small games. These were more popular among classmates and friends than, for example, Donkey by Bill Gates himself. He was regularly asked if he had programmed anything new.
Annoyed by this, the student decided to create a program that spread secretly. The virus remained undetected until it was supposed to scare the user of a system at a certain time for fun.
What did the virus do? Basically, Elk Cloner was harmless. The Apple II computers could only be infected via 5.25″ floppy disks, where the boot virus hid. On an infected computer, further disks were then infected to reproduce.
Unwittingly infected disks were passed around, and Elk Cloner was able to infiltrate more and more systems in this way. After a user had inserted a disk for the 50th time since the virus infection, the boot virus became visibly active.
The current screen content turned black, and instead, the computer displayed a silly poem by Rich Skrenta meant to scare the affected user.
What happened to Skrenta afterwards? Fortunately, not much more happened. No data was deleted or damaged. After a restart, the ordeal was temporarily over.
After all these years, Skrenta regrets his “student prank.” Even today, he is mainly known for Elk Cloner and less for his other works. He wrote on his now no longer available blog skrenta.com:
Incredible. I programmed so much stuff for the Apple II: adventure games, compilers, an operating system. And the dumbest hack I ever wrote generated the most interest, to this day.
Viruses are far too common today. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. The only consolation I find is that the genie would have come out anyway. But it’s great fun to be the first to let it out.
The strongest character is a familiar sight in manga and anime, but who the strongest is remains an eternal topic.When we search for the strongest anime characters, we usually think of Goku, Naruto, and Luffy. However, none of them has reached the first place in a ranking.
Where do the data come from?Goo Ranking is one of the most reputable polling sites in Japan and deals with anime, among other things. In a recent survey, users were asked which anime character is likely the strongest.
A total of just over 15,000 Japanese participants took part in the survey, and just over 50,000 votes were cast. Votes were allowed for a total of 41 individuals.
The site operators themselves asked the participants:
If we include the strongest protagonists from the recently popular series “Narokei” and “Ore TUEEE” as well as the last boss characters of famous works, who then is the strongest in all these cases? Which character do you think is the strongest?
Note: The list was created by voting, so you certainly won’t agree with all the results.
It also doesn’t matter if a character is a villain or a superhero.
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“One-Punch Man” tops the list of the strongest characters
So who is the strongest now? According to the survey results, Saitama, the protagonist of One-Punch Man, is at the top of the list. He is considered the strongest hero in the world, capable of defeating any opponent with just one punch. Saitama is a bald man with a muscular build. The anime has been around since 2015, while the webcomic has existed since 2009.
Where have Luffy, Goku, and others gone? Son Goku made it to 6th place, while Luffy had to settle for 11th place. Naruto at least achieved 17th place. The biggest surprise is probably that Ash Ketchum from Pokémon made it to 32nd place.
You can find the entire list with all 41 “winners” right here below:
Saitama (One Punch Man)
Rimuru Tempest (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
Zeno Sama (Dragon Ball Super)
Satoru Gojo (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Koro-sensei (Assassination Classroom)
Son Goku (Dragon Ball)
Kusuo Saiki (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.)
Levi Ackerman (Attack on Titan)
Arale Norimaki (Dr. Slump)
Doraemon (Doraemon)
Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)
Reinhard van Astrea (Re: ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-)
Giorno Giovanna (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind)
Sukuna (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Anos Voldigoad (The Misfit of Demon King Academy)
Whis (Dragon Ball Super)
Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto)
Yoriichi Tsugikuni (Demon Slayer)
Yuujirou Hanma (Grappler Baki)
Milim Nava (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
Beerus (Dragon Ball Super)
Gogeta (Dragon Ball)
Veggeto (Dragon Ball)
Grand Priest (Dragon Ball Super)
Broly (Dragon Ball Z)
Meruem (Hunter x Hunter)
Jiren (Dragon Ball Super)
Inumaki Toge (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Vegeta (Dragon Ball)
Freeza (Dragon Ball Super)
Hit (Dragon Ball Super)
Ash Ketchum (Pokémon)
Shanks (One Piece)
Kizaru (One Piece)
Eren Yeager (Attack on Titan)
Yhwach (Bleach)
Shigeo Kageyama (Mob Psycho 100)
Denji (Chainsaw Man)
Kibutsuji Muzan (Demon Slayer)
Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach)
Ainz Ooal Gown (Overlord)
How was the list created? The developers of the list state themselves: “The strongest characters with abilities that are simply too strong, such as high combat skills, invincibility, and imperviousness.”
In the One Piece manga, a fight of superlatives is currently beginning. Luffy is up against powerful opponents, for whom the creator of the manga even planned a complete double page. This honor has been given recently to some of Luffy’s allies.
After the discontinuation of “The Crew,” Ubisoft revokes the licenses of players who had paid for the game back then. This is presumably to prevent owners from reinstalling the game.Many players express their disappointment about this.However, “The Crew” has been unplayable since April 1, 2024.
Ubisoft’s purely online racing game The Crew has not been playable since April 1, 2024. Ubisoft shut down the servers. The game is no longer usable even with a disc, as there is no offline mode. However, dedicated fans had already announced their intention to host The Crew privately.
However, some users report that Ubisoft has gone a step further, and many are not pleased: According to reports from Engadget, the company is said to have accessed “Ubisoft Connect” accounts and revoked the license for accessing the game.
Discussion reignites whether we actually “own” games
What are the reactions like? Some players are already loudly complaining and calling this action theft. After all, they had paid for the game, and there was no warning or announcement that Ubisoft would simply delete the license. When they tried to start the game, they received a message that access was no longer possible.
Others recall an interview with Ubisoft. In this interview, the company explained that one should get used to the idea that one does not actually own games. This caused a lot of uproar. Many are now saying: Ubisoft is making it clear by removing the license from the players’ libraries.
Ubisoft states in its own terms of use:
1.3: You are granted a license for the services and content; they are not sold to you. We grant you a personal, limited, non-transferable, and revocable right and the corresponding license to use the services and access the content for your entertainment and non-commercial use, provided that you comply with these terms.
However, players’ criticism is hard to ignore. Players have long complained when purchased titles are only available online and cannot even start without a permanent online connection or activation.
This is a discussion that is also being raised again with Ubisoft’s new Star Wars game. For even here, Ubisoft had explicitly said beforehand to the players’ displeasure: You need an internet connection if you want to install the new game:
