The week in gaming: Ninja is turncoat, EA can't take a hint, and the ESA's security team screws up

in news •  5 years ago 

Twitch loses its marbles, as streamer, Ninja, defects to Mixer

Ninja, who made a name for himself streaming Fortnite on Twitch (owned by Amazon), signed an exclusivity deal Mixer (owned by Microsoft); shocking many, but surprising very few. many other twitch streamers cried foul for him changing sides, typical of many others in similar abusive relationships.

EA content to continue peddle addictive lootboxes to kids

The UK Gambling commission has, for now, ruled in favor of EA stating that it is in fact "not gambling", but warns that these practices will be monitored, if not properly regulated.
As for why junior Zeroed Dad's new Triple Platinum Credit Card, EA gave the "Not my Child, not my problem, we're rich so screw you" in much the same way a Drug dealer does to a junkie.

ESA does an OOPSIE Doxxes over 2000 E3 2019 attendees

This last Friday, everyone who way lucky enough to get invited to E3 2019 was treated to the fact that their private information (email address, contact number, etc) had been leaked into the public domain. this was not the work of a skilled hacker, but rather a curious onlooker who noticed that the info was readily available on their website and completely unsecured. ESA responded by blaming this person for the breach by reporting it to the public, instead of themselves

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