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This 7-Eleven store got a gaming makeover, and I want to spend the night

If you reside in Dallas County, Texas, you have a chance to spend the night in what I think is the ultimate gamer’s paradise: a 7-Eleven complete with snacks, a Slurpee machine, and the hard-to-find PS5 available to use during your stay.

Starting February 1st, residents who are 18 years or older will have the chance to spend $11 for one night in the utopia for gamers before it opens to the public. However, the rules are a bit strict as two gamers from the same household who book the experience through Airbnb’s website will have the chance to spend the night. Only two dates are available: February 26th and February 28th.

During their stay, two lucky guests will have access to the store, which has a futuristic gaming aesthetic, and it is truly #gamingroomgoals. There’s a game pod that includes a big-screen TV, some comfy-looking furniture, and did I mention there was a PS5, too? Not only that, but guests will also have access to an exclusive one-hour streaming session on Twitch with FaZe Temperrr.

Guests will have access to drinks and snacks available inside the store, including an all-you-can-drink Slurpee machine, tacos from the Laredo Taco Company, and all the Doritos and Mtn Dew you can drink.

As a gamer, I was deeply upset that I am ineligible to try to book a night at this 7-Eleven store due to living in Maryland. I mean, I have a PS5, sure, but do you know how many brain freezes I could have achieved with access to an all-you-can-drink Slurpee machine? There are endless opportunities for fun to be had in just one night. But don’t take my word for it; check out the pictures and see for yourself.

Outside appearance does not do the inside much justice.

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Imagine having a sleepover with this asthetic.

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Is this what Heaven looks like?

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That chair is calling my name.

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I’d eat that

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True power is having access to an all-you-can-drink Slurpee machine.

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This is not the first time limited-time stays were available through Airbnb. In September, the company allowed residents in LA County to spend the night in the same mansion featured in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In August, Deschutes County, Oregon residents could have a ‘90s-themed sleepover at the last remaining Blockbuster video store, and in 2019, you could stay at the Barbie Malibu Dreamhouse for just $60 a night.

No brand is safe from Fortnite

Starting this week in Fortnite, you can have the Predator doing a Pelé victory dance while wielding TheGrefg’s gamepad pickaxe. On Thursday, a Faze Clan streamer played Fortnite with a Manchester City star while wearing Manchester City skins. The battle royale hit has long been known as a cross-promotional juggernaut, but developer Epic Games has recently taken things to a whole new level.

Just this season, which kicked off on December 2nd, Epic has added:

Star Wars’ the Mandalorian and Baby Yoda
God of War’s Kratos
Halo’s Master Chief
The Walking Dead’s Daryl Dixon and Michonne
A skin and cosmetics based on Spanish streamer David “TheGrefg” Martínez (whose reveal stream for the skin smashed Twitch records)
The Predator from the Predator franchise
Soccer kits from 23 different clubs and a new emote based on soccer icon Pelé’s goal celebration (available to buy on January 23rd)

Crossovers like these are by no means a new thing for Fortnite. The game’s last season was a multimonth Marvel mashup, there have been multiple Star Wars-themed cosmetics, other real-world streamers added to the game include Tyler “Ninja” Blevins and Kathleen “Loserfruit” Belsten, and there have even been concerts (and accompanying in-game cosmetics) featuring huge artists like Travis Scott and Marshmello.

To me, the crossovers are part of the continuing appeal of Fortnite — where else can I play as Kratos and face off against Iron Man? — and each new addition helps Epic build the ultimate virtual world. But the crossovers also give Epic opportunities to bring in more cash, which might help make up for the game’s absence on iOS. The battle royale hit is free to play, so each new brand appearance is a chance for Epic to get people to pay for items from the in-game store or sell one of its seasonal battle passes.

Don’t expect the crossovers to stop anytime soon. The Predator just joined Fortnite, but Epic is already teasing the arrival of Sarah Connor from The Terminator franchise. That probably means there will be a Terminator cyborg skin, too — and if there is, that means you’ll be able to pit the Terminator against the Predator in a fight for the ages. Just hope that Mando doesn’t butt in.

Opera buys YoYo Games and creates gaming division

The game development platform GameMaker and the gaming browser Opera GX will form the cornerstones of Opera’s new gaming division in the future. GameMaker’s own script language (GML) can be used to develop 2D games for all common consoles, Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux and HTML5. According to YoyYo Games, the development platform is aimed at both beginners and advanced users and does not require in-depth programming knowledge. The GameMaker 2 software was used in the development of the indie games “Forager”, “Spelunky” and “Hotline Miami”.

Future in the gaming industry? Opera entered the gaming sector in June last year with the Heralded the launch of the Opera GX browser, which has now also appeared for the Mac. The browser is intended to attract players with all sorts of gimmicks, such as setting options for RAM and CPU consumption, bandwidth limitation, Twitch integration and release calendars. Also on board are the in-house Opera VPN and an ad blocker.

In a message about the takeover of YoYo Games, Opera reports that the GX browser will be released in December 2020 exceeded 7 million active monthly users for the first time. Opera continues to see growth potential in the gaming area according to its own statement.

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software-architektur.tv: C4 Architecture Model and Structurizr

Simon Brown will be the guest of tomorrow’s episode of software-architektur.tv. He is the author of Software Architecture for Developers, a developer-friendly guide to software architecture, technical leadership, and balancing with agility. He is also the creator of the C4 software architecture model and the founder of Structurizr, a collection of tools designed to help software teams visualize, document, and explore their software architecture. These are all topics of tomorrow’s Friday episode. The conversation will take place in English.

The broadcast will take place tomorrow, Friday at 12 live, the episode is then available as a recording. During the live stream, questions can be submitted via Twitch or YouTube chat, via Twitter to @ewolff or anonymously using the form on the videocast website – also in German.

software-architektur.tv is a videocast by Eberhard Wolff, blogger and podcaster on heise Developer and well-known software architect in the service of the IT consulting company INNOQ. Since June 2020 31 episodes have emerged, which cover different areas the software architecture – sometimes with guests, sometimes Wolff solo. heise Developer integrates the new episodes streamed via YouTube in the online channel so that viewers can Heise Medien can follow the videocast.

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#heiseshow: Shortage of chips – why aren't there enough supplies and how much longer?

While the economy has recently picked up again in many places after the sometimes catastrophic pandemic year 2020, a chip shortage is now slowing down several industries. The chip manufacturers AMD and Nvidia do not assume that this will be resolved in the first half of the year. In Germany, for example, the automotive industry has recently been particularly hard hit, with the first manufacturers having to send employees on short-time work because delivery bottlenecks are slowing down production. The problem has persisted for a long time with graphics cards. We’ll talk about the reasons and further expectations in a new edition of our #heiseshow.

What exactly is missing at the moment? What do we know, what are the rumors? Who is affected and how much and when is improvement in sight? Is it just the pandemic to blame or are there other reasons as well? Does the lack of graphics cards, for example, only make them more expensive, or are the affected components simply not available at all? What is being done about the deficiency and how quickly can it also bear fruit?

These and many other questions – including the audience – discuss Jürgen Kuri (@jkuri) and Martin Holland (@fingolas) with c ‘t editor Christof Windeck and Mark Mantel from heise online in a new episode of #heiseshow, live from 12 Clock.

Thursdays. 12 Clock. Live. heise online speaks to guests about current technical developments and network policy. Using tweets with the hashtag #heiseshow you can join the discussion before, during and after the broadcast. The #heiseshow is there …

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Live every week The #heiseshow is every Thursday at 12 streamed live on heise online. The moderator team consisting of Kristina Beer (@bee_k_bee), Martin Holland (@fingolas) and Jürgen Kuri (@jkuri) alternately leads the on around 30 Minutes talk show in which current developments are discussed with colleagues and connected guests.

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Twitch: Who were your favorite streamers in 2020? Find out with Recap

The 2020 was undoubtedly a special year, but for many people Twitch was the service with which to spend their days at best. Hence, the livestreaming platform launches a special initiative to thank its users: Recap arrives.

by Pasquale Fusco published 19 January 2021 , at 18: 51 in the web channel

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Many of you will have faced the 2020 dedicating yourself to your favorite hobbies, perhaps completing a pending video game or TV series. There are those who have instead chosen to spend their time on Twitch , a platform that offers a wide range of range of content aimed at gaming enthusiasts and beyond. The popular platform takes care of reminding us which were our favorite streamers in the 2020 , with complete statistics for the past year.

Twitch Recap: check your inbox

Through his Twitter profile, Twitch presented the initiative Recap , a real thank you dedicated to all users who, during the 2020, they connected to the platform.

As stated in the official press release, the information we find in our personal Recap “mainly concern the number of chats sent , the total of the channel points obtained, the most used emoticons and the most viewed channels. As for the creators, the summary will include informa such as total broadcast hours, unique viewers, and unique followers “.

We all deserve gold stars for getting through 2020.

But for now, an email will do.

Check your inboxes for your Twitch Recap. pic.twitter.com/XewHqPrzNr

— Twitch (@Twitch) January 15, 2021

As we said, video games are not the only protagonists of Twitch. Among the most popular categories of livestream audiences we find Just Chatting and Talk Show & Podcasts , where users were able to interact with streamers who dedicate themselves every day to creating “IRL” content – be they bloggers, artists or gurus of any subject. These and other categories contributed to the record numbers of the 2020: on average, Twitch hosted every day 26, 5 million viewers , with 2 million people interacting live at all times.

Twitch recaps were emailed through a gradual rollout: if you have not yet received the statistics of your 2020 you will have to wait a little longer.

Twitch, streamer demolishes every record: it was followed by 2 million users

Spanish streamer David “TheGrefg” Martinez achieves an unprecedented record: more than 2 million users have followed his stream on Twitch. Martinez surpassed Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, the only one who had managed to gather hundreds of thousands of simultaneous viewers.

by Pasquale Fusco published 14 January 2021 , at 01: 21 in the Videogames channel

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David Martinez , known to most people as TheGrefg , is a very popular Spanish streamer among Fortnite fans, and more. Martinez is also one of the most followed content creators on Twitch , where a few hours ago he managed to break the record total number of users connected at the same time as a live show: over 2 million viewers followed his broadcast.

Twitch: TheGrefg overtook Ninja for the second time

The incredible milestone was reached during one of the last live by David “TheGrefg” Martinez . In this live, the streamer presented his custom skin from the Icon series of Fortnite : a real exclusive treatment that Epic reserves for the most influential creators of the gaming scene – even Tyler “Ninja” Blevins can boast the his skin Icon.

Before I can even make the announcement. TheGrefg realized it had passed the 2 million concurrent user mark. As Twitch Tracker confirms, the peak reached by the Spanish streamer equals 2, 470, 347 spectators : the previous record held by the ELEAGUE TV network (1, 088 millions of users), followed by Sony PlayStation (1, 041 mln).

The only streamer to approach such figures is the aforementioned Ninja . Until a few months ago, the American streamer and pro player held the record for the largest number of viewers connected simultaneously to a single livestream, or 635 thousand users (March 2018). This record was demolished by Martinez himself last December (660. 0 users) during an event of Fortnite , but with the latest live TheGrefg exceeded all expectations.

David Martinez’s Twitch channel is followed by over 6.3 million people and averages 85. 193 spectators. TheGrefg is also very popular on YouTube, where the count exceeds 16 millions of subscribers to the channel. We will see if the Spanish streamer will manage to outdo himself once again or if he will be overtaken by another content creator.

Mobile phone users will spend 125 billion euros on apps in 2020

During the coronavirus pandemic, people not only spend more time at home but also on their smartphones. They download more new apps than ever before and spend more money on them. This comes from statistics from the market analysis company App Annie.

According to this, users last year 218 Billions of new mobile apps downloaded, seven percent more than 2019. Mobile phone users in the app stores from Apple, Google and the Android derivatives in China have a total of 143 billion US Dollars (about 125 million euros after the annual mean exchange rate), an increase of 20 percent. The average mobile phone time around the world is 4 hours by the same percentage and 10 Minutes increased daily.

Mobile phone usage in Europe below average Users in Europe spend less time on Cell phone than the global average. In Germany, for example, it was only a little over two and a half hours a day. But that’s ten minutes more than 2019.

According to the Statistics last year 2.2 billion new apps downloaded and in the app stores of Apple and Google 3, 12 billion dollars (2, 45 billion euros) spent. In Austria it was 400 millions of new apps and 230 million dollars (202 Million Euros). Although Switzerland has fewer inhabitants, users there 610 downloaded millions of new apps and 240 million dollars (210 million euros) spent. German users were on average significantly more generous than Austrians for new apps, and much more generous than Swiss.

Mobile phone usage is not only increasing among younger users in Germany. Generation Z at the age of 16 to 24 recorded a year-on-year increase of 11 Percent increased usage time, the greatest increase. Generation X 45 also spent seven percent more time on the smartphone than in the previous year. Millenials aged 25 to 44 years have only increased their cell phone usage time by three percent.

Social networks, video streaming and delivery services Mobile phone users spend a lot of their time on social networks. TikTok is the big winner. The video portal with its short amateur clips was 2019 behind WhatsApp and Facebook in terms of usage times in Germany. 2020 TikTok was able to reduce its usage times to an average of 19 more than double hours per month. That is significantly more than WhatsApp (less than 11 hours per month) or Facebook (eleven and a half hours per month).

Video streaming on smartphones stopped last year at 40 percent increased. However, the use of YouTube has decreased in Germany, from almost 13 hours to around 12, 5 hours a month. It looks similar with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Users who are more at home can use larger screens such as TV, PC or laptop more often. Apps like the game streaming service Twitch and the Joyn Mediathek from ProSiebenSat.1 were able to grow last year.

Delivery services for food or recipe information were further winners for the most popular mobile apps in times of the pandemic. The usage times of delivery services in Germany have increased by more than half over the last year. According to the market researchers from App Annie, the coronavirus pandemic and the exit restrictions have led to cell phone use rising as much within one year as it did in three years.

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#heiseshow: Inadequate learning platforms – what's the problem?

The second wave of the corona pandemic in Germany is never ending, and in order to contain the spread of the virus, schoolchildren are now back in distance learning or homeschooling. However, after almost a year of pandemic, expectations of this form of teaching are much greater than in the spring 2020 than all those responsible for the pandemic

Now the individual learning platforms of the countries have to prove what they can do – as well as the commercial solutions such as Microsoft 365, for which Baden-Württemberg has chosen. Unfortunately, the past few days have shown that the countries’ learning platforms are overwhelmed by the onslaught, crash, are presumed to be harassed by hackers or only allow limited use at times. Successful distance learning looks different – at least on a technical level.

Time and again it was pointed out from various sides that commercial providers do not have to struggle with such problems, but because of data protection concerns no real chance in the Schools received. They are used in some schools, but at the same time severely criticized by IT associations or banned by state data protection authorities.

How should digitization be implemented in our schools? How has it gone so far? This is what our series of articles would like to illuminate.

So what are the problems? Is data protection the real problem that prohibits good solutions, or is there another issue? How should a good learning platform be designed? How user- and data protection-friendly are the federal states’ solutions?

Martin Holland (@fingolas) and Kristina Beer (@bee_k_bee) discuss these and many other questions – including those of the audience – with Dorothee Wiegand from c ‘t in a new episode of #heiseshow, live from 12 o’clock.

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Live every week The #heiseshow is every Thursday at 12 Watch streamed live on heise online. The moderator team consisting of Kristina Beer (@bee_k_bee), Martin Holland (@fingolas) and Jürgen Kuri (@jkuri) alternately leads the on around 30 Minutes talk show in which current developments are discussed with colleagues and connected guests.

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After years of following pro sports, League of Legends esports leagues are ‘finally free to be ourselves’

For years, competitive gaming has done its best to mimic professional sports, whether it’s players wearing Nike jerseys, big-name celebrity investors, or ambitious plans for home-and-away games. But Chris Greeley, commissioner of the League of Legends Championship Series — the game’s top professional league in North America — believes that esports has moved beyond mimicking existing sports.

“We had this idea in the beginning that, because esports is a sport, and we wanted to be taken seriously, we should look like a sport,” he tells The Verge. “The LCS looked like the NBA on TNT. It was great for validation and for investors and sponsors to look and say ‘Hey, this looks just like a sport, therefore this is an easy translation.’ But we’ve outlived that.”

So starting in 2021, the league is making some big changes, both in terms of how it looks and how it’s structured. “We feel like we’re finally free to be ourselves,” Greeley says.

The most obvious change is visual. The league has a new logo — it’s a crystal made of the letters LCS — and a refreshed graphic design for broadcasts. Whereas the previous logo was a shield that wouldn’t have looked out of place in college football, the new one clearly represents a video game. It follows similar redesigns for the other top League competitions around the world, including Europe, China, and Korea.

(Greeley says the logo has received a mixed reaction from fans so far — which was expected. “People hate change. We’ve seen it from pretty much every esports rebrand,” he says, adding “You don’t want [a logo that] looks like it came off of a can of soup. It has to be resonant.”)

The idea behind the refresh, he says, is to give the LCS its own distinct voice in an increasingly crowded field. “It’s not just about a new color or a new logo, but it really is about how we’re going to follow with our broadcast and our content,” he says. “You’re not going to tune in this week and see a finished product. We’ll be iterating over the next year or two, but I think this is a really great start.”

To go along with this, the LCS is also introducing some major format changes, with a bigger focus on tournaments, including one to kick off the year that starts on January 15th. Previously, the competition closely resembled something like the NFL, with a slate of regular season matches culminating in the playoffs; the best teams then moved on to international competitions. The goal is to find a balance between the thrill of knockout tournaments and the familiarity of regular season play. “Tournaments are exciting,” Greeley explains. “The problem is, if everything is a tournament, if everything is meant to feel exciting, then nothing feels exciting.”

Despite problems caused by the pandemic, the LCS — along with many other esports leagues — experienced tremendous growth in terms of viewership last year. But the league struggled on a competitive level. At the annual League of Legends World Championship, North American teams were far behind the competition and didn’t pose much of a threat to the big clubs from Europe, China, and Korea. Much of the blame was put on the region’s developmental scene. Instead of encouraging up-and-coming local players, many LCS teams relied on aging or imported stars.

The league is hoping to change that with a revamped amateur system, with the goal of opening things up, so that the developmental squads for each LCS team — known as academy teams — are able to play in different tournaments against other amateur and college teams. This will culminate in an end-of-year tournament called LCS Proving Grounds.

According to Greeley, these changes were in the works prior to Worlds — but the feedback was still welcome. “The criticism around the need for NA to make changes to develop players, that actually was satisfying to hear, because I knew this was coming,” he says of the amateur changes. “We hadn’t announced it, it was nearly final at that point, but we were just figuring out how we were going to roll it out. When you’re developing a solution, and then everyone stands up and says ‘We need a solution,’ and it’s done and ready to show, that’s actually a pretty good feeling.”

2021 will also see the league continue to operate remotely. Typically, LCS matches take place in a Los Angeles studio with fans in attendance. That obviously hasn’t been possible during the pandemic, but Greeley says that this could slowly change throughout the year. The first step is to get the broadcast team in the building, and the hope is that by the time playoffs come around, players can be present as well. Viewers, meanwhile, will likely have to stick to watching on Twitch and YouTube.

“We’re not rushing getting fans back into the arena,” Greeley says.

Over 2 million viewers: “Fortnite” streamer sets Twitch record

With over 2 million viewers, the Spanish streamer TheGrefg has set a new audience record on Twitch. He revealed a “Fortnite” skin.

(Image: TheGrefg, screenshot of the Twitch stream)

Almost 2.5 million viewers watched the Spanish streamer TheGrefg unveil a “Fortnite” skin based on him on Twitch. The promotional campaign for the Battle Royale shooter set a new audience record on Amazon’s streaming platform.

The statistics are Concurrent Viewers – i.e. the maximum number of viewers who watched a stream at the same time. According to the industry magazine Dotesports, TheGrefg previously held this record with 660. 000 simultaneous viewers. Before that, the “Fortnite” streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins had the record with 635. 000 spectators.

TheGrefg even surpassed it the record of the official “Fortnite” channels: At an official event in June, the various streams from Epic Games, which were split over different voice channels, had a total of 2.3 million simultaneous viewers. TheGrefg’s streams are played in Spanish and are therefore also aimed at the large audience in Central and South America.

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CES: Brighter, bigger, more entertaining: LG's evo OLED TVs

The Korean consumer electronics specialist has presented its new TV series G1 OLED evo. The G1-evo models should be in 55, 65 and 65 inches and also with 83 inches diagonal to be available. The diagonal extension went up – the – inch diagonal flew on the new evo TVs apparently out.

For this, the organic screens of the Gallery series from 2021 should be brighter shine, which should refer to both the peak luminance for HDR and the overall brightness of the OLED. Sony also promises higher luminance levels for its new OLED models and stated that the organic panels were additionally coated with a metal film on the back. Since LG is the only manufacturer of large OLED modules for TVs, this should also apply to LG’s OLED TVs.

LG optionally offers an elegant stand for its OLED TVs.

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LG’s G1 models can be attached very close to the wall with a special bracket, the connection cables were routed downwards in grooves in the TV back. We do not yet know whether the wall bracket is optional or whether it is included with the models in addition to the usual feet. There is also an optional high stand with which the TV can be placed anywhere in the room.

Redesign for WebOS and remote control LG has revised its WebOS interface, the WebOS version 6.0 doesn’t seem so playful anymore. As with the new TVs from Samsung and the Bravia TVs from Sony, there is now a bar with recommended content, which is populated based on the series and films watched so far. The streaming platform Twitch is now directly available as a TV app.

Annoying: The bars for recommendations and app icons seem to occupy the entire screen, when you click on the home Button, the actual picture content is covered.

The new WebOS homescreen looks nice and tidy, but apparently always completely covered the current image content. This creates a lot of space for advertising and should annoy a number of users.

(Image: LG)

The shape of the Magic Remote has also been revised, a trackpoint has been integrated and a microphone button for the AI -supported voice control of the TV and built-in buttons for the Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa There are also buttons for Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney + and LG Channels – the latter is a collection platform for the apps and content used by the user.

The Magic Remote has got a new button design and a recessed grip the bottom.

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The Magic Remote of the high-end TVs also has a built-in NFC chip: Using the Magic Tab, users should make their smartphone easier and faster can connect to the TV to stream content from and TV content to the smartphone.

Recognize and optimize images LG’s Alpha 9 AI processor in the fourth generation is responsible for scaling and image optimization. It treats the foreground and background of the scenes independently of each other in order to remove interference and also takes faces into account. In addition, the processor recognizes the genre of the content, the lighting conditions in the scenery shown and the ambient light in the room, and uses these parameters to optimize the display quality. The alpha processor should also conjure up virtual 5.1.2 surround sound from the built-in speakers.

8K gaming with 60 Hertz and G-Sync For gaming, the OLED TVs offer switching times of 1 millisecond, LG also promises a low input lag, without giving specific figures. The most important HDMI 2.1 features should be supported on all four HDMI inputs; LG was already a pioneer here.

According to the manufacturer, the new OLEDs are the first TVs to allow gaming in 8K / 60 Hertz with activated G-Sync and RayTracing. In addition, they offer the so-called Game Optimizer in their menu and allow cloud gaming.

In addition, LG’s OLED TVs are G-Sync-compatible, so Nvidia classified them as suitable themselves synchronize with the incoming graphics card signals via G-Sync to the same frame rate. The TVs do not have a built-in G-Sync module, however, which is reserved for a few expensive G-Sync monitors. In addition, the LG models can handle FreeSync, VRR and ALLM.

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Spanish Fortnite streamer TheGrefg has broken the individual record for highest concurrents on Twitch

Today, Spanish streamer and EU Heretics team owner David “TheGrefg” Martínez is showing off his Icon series Fortnite skin. With just over an hour to the reveal, it appears that Martínez has smashed the individual concurrent record on Twitch, with more than 780,000 live viewers. (By way of comparison: Seattle had 753,675 residents as of the 2019 census.) His excitement was palpable, and viewers watched live as Martínez googled the records on his record-breaking stream.

Fortnite’s Icon Series skins are reserved for the game’s top creators, which include people like Kathleen “Loserfruit” Belsten and Tyler “Ninja” Blevins. As of this writing, there are only seven outfits in the series; Martínez’s would be the 8th.

Martínez takes the individual concurrent record from Blevins, who previously had the record for the highest number of concurrents on an individual stream, at 635,000, set in March 2018. Though this isn’t the first time that Martínez has broken Blevins’ record: he hit 660,000 live viewers during December’s big Fortnite event.

Play a crowdsourced Pokémon Red through this Twitter account

In 2014, a Twitch user turned a game of Pokémon Red into a co-op experience with thousands of players. TwitchPlaysPokémon used crowdsourced commands to move through the game’s world, culminating in the defeat of the Elite Four and capture of all 151 of the original series pokémon. Gameloft 3D programmer Constantin Liétard is attempting a similar feat, this time through Twitter.

Liétard’s version plays out through his avatar — the image updates with the game’s progress as players battle and travel through Pokémon Red’s world. To play, users tweet commands — up, down, start, select, and so on — on an ongoing thread. Comments are pulled every 15 seconds, Liétard tweeted, with the most commented directive then being entered into the game. Users can discuss strategy on a Discord channel Liétard created specifically for the game.

You can now play Pokemon Red in my avatar!

Comment one of those buttons on this tweet:

Up, Down, Left, Right, A, B, Start, Select pic.twitter.com/9RV383BGjW

— Constantin Liétard (@screenshakes) January 8, 2021

The game kicked off on January 8th. Based on how long it took Twitch to finish Pokémon Red, it’s probably going to take a while.

Twitch ended 2020 with its biggest numbers ever

Twitch had a good 2020. Events were virtual; people stayed inside. The live-streaming site managed to clock 17 billion hours watched last year, which is a full 83 percent higher than 2019’s 9 billion, according to the latest report from StreamElements and Arsenal.gg. The jump wasn’t limited to Twitch; Facebook Gaming and YouTube Gaming also posted their best numbers ever last year.

“Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook all experienced major jumps in viewership traffic, which includes Twitch hitting 3 back-to-back milestones from October to December to end with a record high of 1.7B hours watched in that final month,” writes Doron Nir, CEO of StreamElements. For YouTube, that meant 10 billion watch hours in 2020; Facebook Gaming hit 3.59 billion, a jump of 166 percent.

The pandemic gave live-streaming its best year ever. Streamers became household names and made waves in the press. The barriers between gaming and the rest of the internet seemed to break open, especially with the runaway success of games like Fall Guys and, crucially, Among Us (though neither game broke into Twitch’s top 10 most-watched list by the end of the year).

Probably the most important streaming moment last year happened when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) joined some of the stars in Twitch’s firmament to play some cheeky games of Among Us. Her stream broke site-wide records: Ocasio-Cortez peaked at 435,000 viewers, which is good enough for the fifth largest individual stream of all time on Twitch. It’ll be exciting to see what happens to streaming in 2021.

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