Month: April 2025

The marketing team behind Black Myth: Wukong has asked streamers covering the game to avoid mentioning topics including “feminist propaganda,” COVID-19, and China’s game industry policies, multiple reports have revealed.

Screenshots of the document with a number of “Do’s and Don’ts” for influencers circulated on social media thanks to French content creator Benoit “ExServ” Reinier, who said he would not be covering the game due to the unusual guidelines. The email has since been confirmed as legitimate by multiple outlets including IGN and GLHF.

The guidelines were part of an email sent to content creators by Black Myth: Wukong co-publisher Hero Games, which also included a Steam key for the game. The document included “Do’s and Don’ts” for covering the game, with the one “Do” being “enjoy the game” and multiple “Don’ts” as seen below:

• Do NOT insult other influencers or players.
• Do NOT use any offensive language/humor.
• Do NOT include politics, violence, nudity, feminist propaganda, fetishization, and other content that instigates negative discourse.
• Do NOT use trigger words such as ‘quarantine’ or ‘isolation’ or ‘COVID-19’…
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Revealed during the Xbox Showcase on June 9, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a new turn-based role-playing game set in a fantasy world where you command an expedition racing against time to stop an inevitable loop of destruction from occurring.

The combat took center stage during the trailer, showing off some eye-catching turn-based action and a slick user-interface that takes inspiration from the likes of Persona 5 Come from Soccer 13 pools and matches . It seems you’ll control a party of four in combat too, presumably with different abilities to let you tackle a variety of challenges on your journey. There’s a strong fantasy aesthetic on display, rooted within French inspirations, with the Eiffel Tower seemingly destroyed in the trailer’s opening moments.

The trailer references an evil entity known as the Painter, who annually “repaints” the world, stealing innocent lives in the process. You’re part of a new expedition seeking to put an end to this cycle, with numerous others having failed before you.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is launching in 2025 on Xbox Series X|S, and will arrive on X…

Turtle Beach–a company that sells headsets and other gaming accessories–has ended its long-enduring partnership with Guy Beahm, a popular streamer known online as Dr Disrespect. The company severed ties with Beahm after news broke that his 2020 Twitch ban was a result of Beahm’s inappropriate communications with minors.

“We will not be continuing our partnership with Guy Beahm/DrDisRespect,” Turtle Beach said in a statement to IGN.

Beam’s partnership with Turtle Beach began in 2020, and the streamer signed another deal with the company in 2023. Last October, the company even released a Dr Disrespect-themed headset.

The company was followed shortly after by the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers, which told SFGate that the organization would not work with Beahm again.

At the time of his ban, Beahm claimed he had no idea what could have caused it. But several former Twitch employees have recently confirmed that Beahm’s inappropriate behavior with minors was the reason behind the ban. According to one employee, Beahm allegedly made use of the streaming platform’s now-defunct Whispers function to send inappropriate messages t…