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Twitch built the streaming world as we know it, but a growing list of its biggest names have quietly packed their bags and headed elsewhere. Between YouTube's deeper pockets, Discord's community tools, and a general sense that Twitch's best days might be behind it, the landscape for gaming content is fracturing fast — and the games that get discovered, hyped, and played are changing along with it.
Larian Studios didn't just make a great RPG — they accidentally rewrote the industry's playbook. Now publishers big and small are scrambling to chase that lightning in a bottle, and the results are going to be very, very uneven.
Speedrunning has always policed itself through community trust and manual verification — but a wave of new AI-powered detection tools is forcing the scene to confront uncomfortable questions about fairness, false accusations, and who really gets to decide what counts as legitimate. We talked to runners, moderators, and tool developers to find out where this is all heading.
Forget the three-minute cinematic trailer — today's gamers are discovering their next obsession through a 15-second TikTok clip filmed sideways on someone's phone. Short-form vertical video has fundamentally rewired how games get found, talked about, and ultimately purchased. We talked to indie developers and content creators about how they're playing the new algorithm game.