Twitch changes its mind about nude art after just 48 hours: 'We went too far'

In December, Twitch relaxed its rules to allow for "artistic depictions of nudity" in streams—things like «content that ‘deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or pelvic region,’»—as long as it was labelled as containing «sexual themes.» Two days later, following «community concern,» it chickened out and walked the changes back: «Moving forward, depictions of real or fictional nudity won't be allowed on Twitch, regardless of the medium,» CEO Dan Clancy said.

An Xbox brand account has been accused of using AI-generated art to promote indie games.

Earlier this week, indie developer Nightmare Forge Games announced its new title Infestation 88, wasting no time capitalizing on Steamboat Willie becoming public domain. The game blew up on social media for its use of Disney's beloved mascot as a huge hulking monster players have to avoid, but people began to raise eyebrows over the game's name.

The Day Before will be officially retired, with servers taken offline next year on January 22.

Unlike Steam, the Epic Games Store has a hard-and-fast rule against adult content. Its content guidelines state very clearly that «products with Adults Only ratings cannot be distributed on the Epic Games Store.» But it recently updated those guidelines to allow AO-rated games on the store for one specific reason: If they were given that rating because they involve blockchain trading.

Controversial Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick will depart the company on 29th December, it's been announced.

Microsoft Copilot, the AI-powered chatbot, running on OpenAI's GPT infrastructure, now has another cool feature for the users. The tech giant has partnered with Suno, an AI music-creation platform, to allow Copilot the capability to compose AI songs with simple text prompts. This new extension adds multimodality to the AI chatbot, and now it can add music to its list of outputs. Users will now be able to go to Microsoft Edge to create personalized songs and tweak them according to their preferences. Let us take a closer look.

Twitch very quickly rolled back its recent updates to its sexual content policy. On Dec. 15, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy reverted some of its new rules — specifically the ones concerning “artistic nudity” on the platform. Artists initially excited about the policy told Polygon they’re confused and disappointed by the rollback.

Hogwarts Legacy only arrived on Nintendo Switch last month, but the port of one of 2023's biggest games has been stubborn in its price so far. Usually we see these later ports jumping straight into Nintendo Switch deals, but this game survived even Black Friday without a price cut. That all came to a head this weekend, though. 

Twitch is changing its rules around sexual content after increased attention to the so-called topless meta.

The Finals is improving its skill-based matchmaking system for better and closer matches.

Be me, right? It's my first playthrough of Elden Ring. I'm playing a spell swordsman, which means I start a lot of fights in the Lands Between by chucking my strongest long-range spell. This strategy serves me well until I get to Castle Sol and chuck spells at the wrong dude. A notorious dual-wielding Banished Knight shrugs off my magic like it's a paper ball thrown his way, and then teleports behind me to turn my entrails into extrails before I know what happened.