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After 50 years creeping from the margins of popular culture into the mainstream, Dungeons & Dragons is now bigger than ever. Evolving beyond its roots as a pen-and-paper tabletop RPG (TTRPG), D&D has inspired countless imitators, novels, movies, video games, and — most importantly — generations of storytellers and creators, …

When you think of a world-famous Twitch streamer, there’s likely to be a couple of obvious details. They’re probably playing video games in a bedroom or living space filled with neat props and toys. Maybe they’re roaming the streets or at IRL events, speaking to fans or pulling pranks. But …

Good news for Donald Trump if he was hoping to catch a livestream of the Evo 2024 tournament this weekend: Twitch announced Friday that it has reinstated the former president’s channel after banning him from the platform in 2021. Just weeks after the “guardrails” on Trump’s Instagram and Facebook accounts …

Anyone who’s been online in the last month has likely heard of the new Elden Ring expansion Shadow of the Erdtree. The first and only major update to one of the best RPGs of the last decade has caused a stir not just for being incredible to play, but for …

Four years after gamer celebrity and streaming star Dr Disrespect, 42, was banned from Twitch for undisclosed reasons, reports emerged this week that he had allegedly used the Amazon-owned platform’s direct-messaging feature to send sexually explicit texts to a minor. Now, the internal response to those alleged conversations — long …

It’s not just video games that dominate the digital airwaves on platforms like Twitch — there’s a huge contingent of viewers who yearn for the old days of pen and paper, with tabletop RPGs making a huge splash virtually in the last few years. In fact, once-niche games like Dungeons …

A few weeks back, 21-year-old musician ericdoa figured out how to connect his production setup to his computer so he could stream his creative process on Twitch. He decided to test out his method with a more than two-hour livestream where he would rap and sing whatever popped into his …

What language do teenagers speak? Parents, as always, seem to be at a loss. Last month, The New York Times published a helpful guide to the slang terms growing in popularity online. Words like “sigma” (a stoic guy), “gyat” (a nice butt), and “rizz,” (basically “charisma”) topped the list, and …

Forrest Gump famously said, “Stupid is as stupid does.” Forrest Gump clearly never spent a Wednesday night tuning into a much-hyped interview between livestreamer Adin Ross and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, which was crashed by masculinity influencer and accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate. More than 330,000 people tuned …

Union Square Park turned into a chaotic scene Friday afternoon after fans flocked there for a giveaway hosted by Twitch streamers Kai Cenat and Fanum. Photos and videos from attendees captured the chaos onsite as police personnel and NYFD were dispatched to help disperse the crowd. One Twitch user described …