Twitch’s community celebration event TwitchCon will be returning to San Diego for its fifth annual celebration this year in September. Twitch fans will descend upon the San Diego Convention Center on Sep. 27 through Sep. 29 as TwitchCon invites members of the Twitch livestream community, their fans, moderators, and developers, publishers, and brands to be [...]

Epic Games is no longer running “Fortnite” pre-roll ads on YouTube after it was discovered they were playing on videos alleged predators used to exploit children, according to The Verge. The developer has paused all of its pre-roll advertising, which plays before a video starts on the streaming platform, a spokesperson said. It also reached [...]

There’s still much to be learned about HTC’s Vive Cosmos — like release date, specs, and price — but Wednesday the company released a short teaser video giving a slightly better glimpse of the controllers in action. The new controllers look a bit like rival VR headset Oculus Rift’s Touch controller, though reversed in some [...]

Razer cut about 30 positions, some from mobile and mobile gaming-related projects, in the process of the company’s realignment plans, according to Droid Life. The layoffs affected 2% of the company’s workforce, according to a response directly from Razer to Droid Life. While it is not completely clear which projects were shut down, some engineers [...]

Comedian Dara Ó Briain will once again host the British Academy Games Awards, BAFTA announced on Wednesday. This will be Ó Briain’s ninth time hosting the ceremony, which takes place on Apr. 4. It will be held at Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s Southbank for the first time ever. The Irish comedian is perhaps best [...]

The video section of the Steam menu has been retired, and an undisclosed number of non-gaming video will be pulled from the Steam Store due to apparent lack of interest, according to a news update from Valve Tuesday. The video section of the Steam Store had both paid and free content for Steam users, but [...]