Twitch sees a 4% increase in viewership for December

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This upcoming life sim from a former Stardew Valley dev finally has a name and a release window, and we couldn't be more up for it.

Season 3 of introduces Nightmare Vaults, or larger dungeons you can unlock with special keys called Vault Sigils. These areas are filled with Construct enemies and bosses you can defeat for rare rewards. However, opening Vaults requires materials from world events exclusive to the seasonal content throughout Sanctuary.

Intel is bringing in some major AI performance improvements with its next-gen Panther Lake client CPUs while Clearwater Forest chips are in fabs.

Apple iPhone was the top-selling smartphone series in China for the first time last year, a surprisingly strong showing in the face of fierce local competition and expanding government prohibitions against the American company's technology. The iPhone ranked first in shipments in the fourth quarter and 2023 overall, market tracker IDC said. It came after several analysts, including Jefferies, said iPhone sales tanked in the fourth quarter due to a lull in enthusiasm for the Cupertino, California company's latest generation of hardware in the world's biggest smartphone market. IDC also noted rising competition from domestic names like a resurgent Huawei Technologies Co., but timely discounts and promotions helped reduce the harm for Apple. 

Twitch streamers are known for doing some pretty wild stuff, some of which gives the platform real headaches over what to do about them. One such streamer is Boggles1, who you may know due to a video of his going viral over the past few days, which appeared to show the streamer sticking two metal forks into two toasters and exploding as a result.

Intel has begun enablement for its next-gen E-Core Xeon CPUs codenamed Clearwater Forest which will adopt the Darkmont core architecture.

As part of the Xbox Developer Direct Livestream, MachineGames showed off their upcoming Indiana Jones project, Indiana Jones and The Great Circle. Most importantly, it involves Harrison Ford(‘s likeness) and punching Nazis. Two awesome things.

Last year was one of the worst in recent memory for people losing their jobs in the games industry, and there were growing concerns that things would only get worse before they got better. Unfortunately, it seems like this might be the case, as a new report has suggested that Twitch may be preparing to lay off a total of 500 workers as early as tomorrow, which is roughly 35 percent of the streaming platform's entire staff.

Activision-Blizzard has been the centre of a lot of controversy over these past few years. After a lawsuit went public, detailing «numerous complaints about unlawful harassment, discrimination, and retaliation» and a «frat boy» culture, plus claims from former CEO Bobby Kotick that the whole thing was just an «aggressive labour movement,»  the company finally settled last year.

An unnamed former Activision executive is taking the Call of Duty publisher to court in California, accusing the company of age discrimination and violating the state's whistleblower protection law. Said executive is a 57-year-old who worked at the company from 2014; apparently, he and six other men aged 47 or older were cut from a team of 200, as part of broader Activision Blizzard restructuring efforts last August.

Since Final Fantasy 7 Remake launched in 2021 and given how events played out, everyone has had the same question regarding a particular character’s fate Speaking to Game Informer, director Naoki Hamaguchi and creative director Tetsuya Nomura talk about how the team approached. Spoilers follow for Final Fantasy 7 Remake and the original game, so be warned.