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YouTube improving live streaming service YouTube Gaming

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YouTube has clearly been the dominant force when it comes to internet videos over the last 12 years. In 2015, the platform decided to chase Amazon’s live streaming service, Twitch,  by launching their own live streaming version of the site called YouTube Gaming. YouTube Gaming has been met with some very negative criticism since its launch. With incredibly long delays, Minimal emotes, channel moderation, and a very basic user interface. It seemed like YouTube Gaming was just not handled the way people expected it to be. With the incredible success of Twitch, it seems like YouTube Gaming was a poor competitor.

Lately there have been rumblings of YouTube Gaming reshaping the site and adding new features to hopefully stoke the fire. Now one of the official developers in a Reddit post seems to confirm that. The user BarbaraEMac has posted about some of the upcoming new features for YouTube Gaming. The site had been testing out their version of monetary subscription buttons called “Sponsorships,” with some of their higher end content creators. In the post however, YouTube Gaming is opening sponsorships up to content creators with at least 1000 subscribers on the platform.

The site looks to seriously upgrade their chat experience. Featuring new sponsorship badges, custom emoji’s, and highlighted chat text called “Super Chat.” The Super Chat feature can highlight donations and is aimed at getting the content creators attention.

Another big fix YouTube looks to aim for is cutting its delay to very small duration. Per an anonymous YouTube content creator, The platform is looking to cut their latency to about 2 seconds. Which, in my opinion, is a significant upgrade to the platform. The site has been suffering from very long delays since YouTube Gaming launched in 2015. Which has turned a lot of users off of the live streaming service and forced to pursue other options.

YouTube Gaming's Homepage

YouTube Gaming’s Homepage

Only time will tell if these features can pull users back into the live-streaming platform of YouTube. In my personal opinion, if the platform is aiming to compete with other live-streaming sites, like Twitch and the new hot upcomer Mixer from Microsoft, YouTube needs to completely revamp the YouTube Gaming experience. YouTube Gaming needs a complete overhaul to separate itself from the main site and establish itself as its own platform. I feel like only then will users start to take it more seriously. If you’d like to check out the Reddit post you can find it here .

Hello, everyone! My name is Josh aka DrnkOnShdws(Drunk on Shadows). I'm a partner with Microsoft's live streaming service called Mixer. I'm a straight up geek. I love video game, comics, movies, and tv. Superhero stuff, Sci-fi stuff, I love it all. Thanks for being here!

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In Spider-Man 2, Player Unconventionally Free Roams as Venom

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One player found an unusual way to roam Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s New York City as Venom again. However, intentionally crashing your game during a story segment requires nerves of steel, so we wouldn’t recommend it. Possible Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 spoilers!

UnderTheHood788 explained their method, which involves reaching a cutscene that switches players to Peter. They unplugged their PS5 when the screen blanked while switching to fidelity mode. As the game renders slower, fidelity mode was used. Players get Don’t Be Scared, a mission without an objective, after reloading the last save.

UnderTheHood788 advises, “Wait a bit and go to an unidentified target mission or talon drone mission to become Venom. Reload and become Venom, committing crimes against hunters, the flame, thugs, and even symbiotes. Bases are possible.”

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If you like causing carnage, get a move on—Insomniac will spoil the fun in the next update. This indirect approach—what do you think?

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Avatar Frontiers of Pandora Could Influence Future Films

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On December 7, Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora hits PS5. Fans can expect new creatures, characters, and storylines that are influencing other Avatar projects as part of James Cameron’s canon.

Massive Entertainment director Magnus Jansén told IGN that the game’s new Western Frontier region—from plants to Na’vi clans—is now Avatar lore: “The Western Frontier is no less a part of the world of Avatar than what’s in the movies.” Jansén says one of their creations is in an Avatar exhibition, but most excitingly, “there is already some talk about maybe using some of the stuff that we did in the upcoming movies.”

Jon Landau, producer of the Avatar films, said: “I think clans are a perfect thing to someday try to weave into the movies. However, new environments follow. Go and say, “Okay, let’s explore what you did in the video game in the movie.” Frontiers of Pandora introduces the Aranahe, Zeswa, and Kame’tire Na’vi clans.

In addition, Lightstorm VP of franchise development Joshua Izzo teased: “I can say that there are going to be some future sequel elements in Frontiers of Pandora that will pay off when the movie comes out when Avatar 3 comes out in 2025. Because of ’25, careful Avatar fans may want to revisit certain things.

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CDPR’s Live-Action Cyberpunk 2077 Not Due Until 2025

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CD Projekt’s live-action Cyberpunk 2077 won’t arrive until 2025. In the company’s latest earnings call, the PM project was only mentioned as not expected in 2024.

During a call with IGN, chief commercial officer Michał Nowakowski stated that the company will continue to promote the game and develop the Cyberpunk IP through activities beyond the game.

Nowakowski said, “We’re not really discussing specifics here, but one of the obvious things that we have announced, not happening next year, but going to be developed or moved in the direction next year, is the project we have announced with Anonymous Content.”

Anonymous Content, which produced Crime & Punishment, True Detective, and Mr. Robot, seems like a good fit to bring Night City’s mean streets to life. We don’t know if the project will be a TV show, movie, game adaptation, or standalone story.

Would you attend a live-action Cyberpunk event? Would you like it in what form? Jackie and V lost six months. With Johny Silverhand, Behind the Music?

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