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He signed a sort-of official contract worth $10 million.

Australias PlaySide Studios has teamed up with pro gamers Lazarbeam and Fresh to create new online multipl...

Three of YouTube’s and gaming’s biggest stars, Jacksepticeye, LazarBeam, and DanTDM, appear in the new Ryan Reynolds movie Free Guy. They spoke to Polygon about the challenges of working with those outside the gaming industry.

From PwC to an online gaming empire Share Grace Watkins says when documenting the rise of online gaming it is too easy to be seduced by the eye-wateringly high e-sports prizewinnings and viewership numbers for tournaments that tower over the Super Bowl, but this ignores the action on platforms like YouTube and Twitch. “E-sports is a bit of a buzzword, but it is just a tiny part of a much, much bigger picture here,” she says. “And for me, Im probably more excited about where gaming is goi...

Joe Wicks has been crowned the UKs top trending YouTuber of the year after a staggering 72 per cent of Britons used the site for home workouts during lockdown.  The fitness guru, 35, known as The Body Coach, uploaded daily online PE lessons during lockdown with one million people subscribing to his YouTube channel in the space of a week and raising £580,000 for the NHS. Father-of-two Joe, who has 2.6million YouTube subscribers, was also awarded an MBE in October which he described as his pro...

Dec 10, 2020 Forget politics and religion, the culture wars of our time are between moss lovers and lawn mowers, and if you haven’t realized that yet it’s because you haven’t been spending enough time on TikTok. On the corners of the internet most frequented by people born this century, manicured lawns are frowned upon because they can’t be walked on, require fertilizer, need too much water and are boring and ugly (sorry, Versailles). In short, theyre the perfect metaphor for b...