James Harrington

Twitch has updated its policy on sexual harassment, and added a new category to its AutoMod tool, to improve safety on its platform.

In a new blog post titled “How we’re combatting sexual harassment on Twitch”, the streaming platform highlights clarifications to its policy.

“While our policy remains largely unchanged, these updates are designed to make the policy easier to understand,” it reads. “Sexual harassment is never okay or acceptable. It harms our community, can make those targeted feel unsafe and disrespected, and can discourage them and others from participating on Twitch. We want our service to be the best and safest place to stream, and that means drawing clear boundaries around what behaviours are and aren’t allowed.”

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Rocksteady staff have told Eurogamer of redundancies at the studio, following the underperformance of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

The company’s QA department has seen its size almost cut in half over the past month, Eurogamer understands, from 33 team members to 15, with poor sales of Suicide Squad directly cited as a reason for its “restructuring”.

The job losses extend outside of QA, too. One staff member posting publicly on social media over the weekend revealed they had been told they were being made redundant in the middle of their paternity leave.

Eurogamer has contacted Suicide Squad publisher Warner Bros. for comment, but has so far not received a response.

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Those lucky enough to secure a ticket to visit Nintendo’s museum are in for a bonus treat: all eligible tickets will include a portrait of their Mii character.
As anyone accepting a museum ticket must have a Nintendo account in order to accept and use it, Nintendo is automagically customising tickets with each account holder’s Mii.

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UPDATE 25/9/24, 10.35pm: Nexus Mods has confirmed iArtorias removed their mod, which let players bypass PSN for God of War Ragnarök on PC, in order to “avoid any future action from Sony”.
In a conversation between Nexus Mods and iArtorias, the creator said the mod had “got too much attention” following its release, and they ultimately thought it would be “better to remove it from public” use.
iArtorias added even though their mod did not alter “anything in memory related to Sony products”, they felt it was “better [to] be safe than sorry” in this case, adding it was their decision to remove the mod from Nexus.

We’ve had a chat with the mod author about this and can confirm that the mod was removed due to a personal decision after it received significant tr…