Twitch relaxes about nudity after viral topless streams, says you can be sexy on stream so long as it’s ‘artistic’ or ‘fictionalized’

If there’s one thing the hot tub meta of 2021 taught us, it’s that Twitch’s policies around nudity can be incredibly confusing for everyone involved, including Twitch itself. When your massive streaming platform has to issue a public statement assuring fans it’s not going to punish anyone for being sexy, you probably have to acknowledge…

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‘Still a slight risk of critical deformation’: Noctua isn’t happy with its next-gen 140mm fan so it’s pushed until Q2 2024 at the earliest

You’re going to have to wait a little longer for Noctua’s next-gen 140mm fan. Despite positive signs out at Computex this year that had suggested the fan would head to mass production by the tail-end of 2023, that plan has been scuppered by late issue. This means it has to go through a lengthy validation…

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‘There’s almost nobody left’: CEO of Baldur’s Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs

Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke has taken to Twitter today and—in a thread celebrating both Baldur’s Gate 3’s numerous awards and runaway success—mentions the recent layoffs occurring at Dungeons & Dragons. He reveals that, “of the people who were in the original meeting room, there’s almost nobody left.” (Image credit: @LarAtLarian on Twitter/X.) For context,…

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Starfield design director calls out unfair game criticism: ‘Don’t fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is’

Starfield did not land with quite the positive thump that just about everyone expected, and lots of people have thoughts about why—and that has apparently inspired Starfield design director Emil Pagliarulo to muse about how confident some of those critics are in their opinions, despite how “disconnected” they are from the process of actually making…

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This fan-made HD PC port of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is so cool I can’t believe Nintendo hasn’t taken it down yet

Extremely cool fan project alert: someone, or someones, has released a PC port of Nintendo classic The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX, modernized to run fantastically on modern PCs. It adds widescreen and high framerate support, with a silky smooth camera that lets you explore Link’s Awakening as one large interconnected world instead of…

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