By CCN Markets: As the streaming community reels from Twitch's controversial decision to use Fortnite star Ninja's channel to highlight other streamers, accidentally promoting pornography in the process, some say that it has exposed a far more serious issue with the platform. Ex-VP: Twitch Betrayed Fortnite Legend Ninja Even Before It Streamed Porn on His Channel On Twitter, early Twitch investor...
After yesterday's explosive news that Fortnite streamer Ninja is leaving Amazon's Twitch and moving his entire operation over to Microsoft-owned platform Mixer, the king of YouTube himself Felix ''PewDiePie'' Kjellberg has weighed in on the matter. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't hold back any punches and takes tangible pleasure in mocking Ninja despite the two teaming up for a Friday Fortnite event...
Tyler "Ninja" Blevins announced today that he's waving goodbye to Twitch and porting his stream over to pastures new, specifically the Microsoft-owned rival platform Mixer. In a video published simultaneously on YouTube and Twitter, the Fortnite streamer announced he would be streaming exclusively on Mixer full time moving forward. The video takes the form of a staged press conference with a...
When Satoshi Nakamoto wrote the historic bitcoin whitepaper, the elusive creator called bitcoin a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. But ten years later, bitcoin is still a terrible way to pay for things. Streaming platform Twitch just proved the point by quietly removing its bitcoin and bitcoin cash payment options. The Amazon-owned streaming platform offered no reasons for the move, but we...
Legendary Fortnite player Richard Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has much to celebrate. In 2018, the gamer and wildly popular Twitch streamer told CNN he earned close to $10 million. Other reports indicate that Ninja makes more than $500,000 per month in sponsorship and ad revenues stemming from the size of his massive viewer base. But how would Ninja fare if his sponsors knew that his reach was...
The 2018 end-of-year report by Nielsen-owned gaming research company SuperData has revealed that so-called freemium games - games that are free to play but typically enable microtransactions for users to purchase upgrades and gizmos - are dominating the entertainment market, generating a massive $88 billion in the past year. Unsurprisingly this segment also known as free-to-play or F2P is...
An anonymous donor surprised popular Twitch streamer Sick Nerd with a donation of 20 bitcoins. He was streaming Old School RuneScape at the time to his 109,000 followers. Twitch Streamer Nets a Large Bitcoin Donation Initially, Sick Nerd received a donation of 4 BTC. He received more BTC throughout his stream. While the gamer at first thought that someone was messing with him, he received more...