‘I can’t believe I beat Minecraft in an Overwatch queue!’: Twitch streamer turns interminable queue times into her advantage, completing Minecraft over 9 total hours of waiting for matches to pop

The only way to defeat long queue times is spend them doing something productive with your life, like beating Minecraft. Twitch streamer Aspen spent the last week in lengthy Overwatch queues—a common annoyance for high-ranked players—digging her way to the end of Minecraft. In one particularly long queue that lasted over two and a half…

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My heart’s already been stolen by this stop-motion adventure made out of wood and ‘mostly in a garden shed’

Éalú, from first time developers Beyond the Bark, starts with a strong premise: You are a mechanical mouse looking to escape a mysterious labyrinth. But its presentation is what really blows the doors down: Nearly everything is made out of wood, and rendered in full-on, stop-motion animation. Not real models keyframed to sprites either, such…

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Satellite internet provider Starlink is down

Starlink, the satellite internet service provider operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has reported a “network outage.” “Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution,” reads a statement from the ISP. “We appreciate your patience, we’ll share an update once this issue is resolved.” Starlink operates globally, providing internet service…

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CEO of collapsing vtuber agency accused of withholding over $500K in charity funds takes ‘full responsibility’ and plans to shut it down: ‘I’ve mismanaged the company into the situation you’re all witnessing’

VShojo, the vtuber agency that was called out in a video on Monday by Ironmouse—who is arguably the biggest vtuber on Twitch—for failing to pay her “a significant amount of funds” and withholding a $515,000 donation to charity, is shutting down. After hearing her story, almost every other vtuber who was part of VShojo decided…

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I don’t think they should make this

We at PC Gamer celebrate ingenuity. Where would our hobby be, were it not for the tinkering and experimentation of inventive minds? And yet, not all inventions are created equal. Just as we admire the drive to improve and innovate, we also admire the willingness to stop and ask, “Dear god, what horrors have these…

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