Browsing: Creator Economy & Fan-Driven Platforms

The story of Dan Gheesling is a sad though ultimately predictable one. A Big Brother winner and former football coach, Gheesling more recently settled into a niche as a Twitch streamer in the orbit of beloved bald wisecracker Ryan “Northernlion” Letourneau. Things went more or less swimmingly for the better part of a decade until…

Bloomberry Resorts Corp. is expanding its digital gaming business with the launch of OnlyFun.PH, a regulated live interactive entertainment platform combining online gaming, livestreaming and creator-led content.

A YouTuber has had their channel permanently banned from their platform for showcasing Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival gameplay that featured blurred explicit content.

Hellraiser: Revival is not afraid to go there. Like the Clive Barker horror series its based on, the survival horror game has all manner of gore, violence, and sex. And now a YouTuber’s been banned over the gameplay they uploaded to their channel from it. The gameplay in question apparently even had black boxes covering…

Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek is one of the most recognisable first-person-shooter players ever to transition from competitive esports into full-time streaming, and his wealth has become a recurring subject of speculation across celebrity-finance sites. Published estimates of Shroud’s net worth vary enormously, from the single-digit millions to roughly forty million dollars, because almost none of his…

YouTube’s instant-play lightweight gaming service Playables has rolled out to more than 50 countries and regions, adding the European Union and Nordic markets to its footprint. This marks a major global milestone for the web-based casual-gaming project after three-year iterations. The expansion was not announceds Manager, shared the update publicly on LinkedIn

KADOKAWA Corporation has announced the second edition of the KADOKAWA World Manga Contest. Submissions are officially open from Monday, 7 September 2026 to Sunday, 28 February 2027. This event is designed as a platform for manga creators worldwide who aspire to become professional manga artists and make their commercial debut in Japan.

More than 50 crore Indians are estimated to be connected to gaming, with participation growing rapidly among young users in tier 2 and 3 cities, Modi said in his inaugural address at the 10th India Mobile Congress Moneycontrol News October 08, 2026 / 13:11 IST Modi

Before the Netflix Extended Look drew massive viewership, YouTube hosted previous GTA 6 trailers. After the site posted a new ad promoting the game, speculation has grown that it will premiere future videos. One possibility is a third trailer ahead of the release date, but the platform can market the Rockstar title in multiple ways.…

The image generation capabilities of generative AI are constantly evolving, making it possible to easily generate images that look as if they were drawn by human illustrators or manga artists. The Nieman Journalism Lab, a journalism organization at Harvard University, reported that manga generated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT included the ‘signature of a real manga artist.’…