YouTube removes almost 2 mn videos in crackdown; shockingly machines flagged 93% of them

YouTube Music has been trying to set up its base and strengthen its position among avid music listeners ever since its launch in 2015. The YouTube Music app is very similar to Spotify, while it also faces stiff competition from the likes of Amazon Music, and Apple Music. The app has gained a healthy user base owing to its intuitive user-friendly features and a vast array of genres and music options. To entice more users, YouTube Music has launched five new mood filters that open playlists based on selected moods. Know more about them.

Ahead of its official global release tomorrow, an official Mortal Kombat 1 60FPS patch has been released, removing the 30FPS cap in certain parts of the game.

One of the biggest PC mod repositories in the world, NexusMods, has banned a mod that let Starfield players remove all mentions of pronouns.

Following the recent launch of Runescape's Hero Pass, developer Jagex said it'll be removing the most controversial aspects of the feature. In its newest blog, the Runescape team acknowledged the Hero Pass was "too pay-to-win," and will "urgently patch the game" to roll back the pass' worst elements. 

Making it big on YouTube is a tough job. Unlike the early 2010s, when the space was still less crowded and anyone with original content and consistency could gain subscribers to become a big YouTuber, today it takes a lot more. YouTube understands this and has been working to improve its creator ecosystem to enable new accounts to gain more subscribers and grow organically. As a part of this effort, the video sharing giant is testing a cool new feature where the Subscribe button begins glowing every time the creator asks people to subscribe.

Riot Games has debuted a number of new game modes in League of Legends over the years: Twisted Treeline, Dominion, Ascension, Invasion, Odyssey: Extraction, Black Market Brawlers, Nexus Blitz, and more. A rare few have returned — or, like Teamfight Tactics, managed to break out and become a permanent part of the League client. It begs the question: Why spend so much time creating game modes that won’t stick around?

Google has begun public testing for its new Playables feature on YouTube, which brings games to the video platform.

Google's new Playables game streaming service has now entered its testing phase, but only for a select few YouTube users.

By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

YouTube, which is owned by Google, is trying out a new gaming feature called "Playables." This is a move back into gaming for Google after it stopped its Stadia gaming service in January 2023. "Playables" are games that you can play right on YouTube, whether you're on a computer or a mobile device. Google is testing this feature with a select group of users. These games will have their own section on YouTube's main page, and you can access them on both computers and phones. Whether these games will be rolled out to a larger audience is as yet unknown. However, since it is jumping into the gaming arena again, it shows that luring gamers to the platform is being taken seriously by folks at Google.

The time has come, it would seem, for Bethesda to rid Doom Eternal of one of its biggest faults: the infamous Denuvo DRM. Having launched in March of 2020, Doom Eternal featured one of the most tone-deaf implementations of Denuvo yet, hyping the DRM up as a “feature” via official channels. Subsequently, there was some amount of backpedaling from id Software on the topic with a temporary removal of the DRM, but Denuvo did eventually come back into the picture due to the game’s multiplayer mode. Now, three years following that particular series of stumbles, Doom Eternal no longer appears to have Denuvo on board.

Sumo Digital and Gun Interactive have a new patch for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which should be live for all platforms now. It fixes graphical issues like stuttering when playing on a PC in Ultra settings. Frame rate drops, which occur when attacking or grappling opponents, should also be fixed. PC players can also finally rebind their keys, but crossplay is disabled while improvements are made to anti-cheat.