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China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service
Video game-streaming service Twitch has been blocked in China.
Since 20 September, Twitch's website has been unreachable from the country and its app has been removed from the local Apple App Store.
Twitch has confirmed that it is being blocked but it has not said why the authorities have imposed the restriction.
The service was cut off shortly after enjoying a significant bump in popularity among Chinese gamers. The streaming service has been gaining a larger following in China over the last few months. Many keen gamers flocked to it in late August to watch eSports matches being played at the Asian Games in Jakarta.
Not a fan of Twitch myself, but I'm even less of a fan of censorship.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday September 21 2018, @05:53PM (2 children)
Rumor has it that "Armored Warfare" and "World of Tanks" specifically don't include infantry because they didn't want 4chan and friends stirring up stuff with the Chinese along the lines of streaming and screenshotting re-enactments and parodies of "Tienanmen Square tank guy" (Only gen-X will remember that dude, or the overall event the Chinese have been trying to memory hole for some time)
That rumor is of course probably BS, but is tasty sounding.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday September 21 2018, @06:24PM (1 child)
Sounds like /pol/ or /v/ making shit up.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday September 21 2018, @06:38PM
I'm not disagreeing. Still, its probably the most "NPC-compatible" explanation provided of why nobody releases combined arms games anymore.