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Meet “The Claw”—a physical crane game operated entirely by livestream viewers, built by the Twitch Brand Partnership Studio (BPS), a full-service creative team at Amazon Ads’ Brand Innovation Lab. Part hardware engineering, part live entertainmen and part digital community experiment, the custom machine lets viewers type in coordinates, drop the claw remotely, and score real-world…

Twitch chat is the beating heart of live streaming culture, and its emote lexicon has grown into a language of its own that spills into Discord servers, YouTube comments and everyday internet slang. In 2026 the platform serves a global audience in the hundreds of millions while its emote catalogue has climbed past 24 million…

I’m no stranger to group chats. I’m in several with friend groups and former work colleagues. Tori and I are in one with our menfolk and two other couples, as well as another with just us girls so we can discuss feminine things like yoga classes, weekend plans and our menfolk. 

The Xbox team is continuing to roll out new console features at a faster pacehe Alpha Skip-Ahead ring can try including voice chat in their game captures, new sorting options on the Achievements history page, and more

A sea of faces looking like your favourite animated characters, with the exact outfits, accessories and gait you associate with them. A dream crossover of scores of animated series coming together on one platform. That is the World Cosplay Summit for you. Held in Nagoya, Japan, the 2026 World Cosplay Summit saw a plethora of…

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Microsoft just dropped theber it, but it was a piece of software released in 1996, dreamed up by DJ Kurlander at Microsoft Research, that displayed your IRC conversations as an auto-generated comic strip – characters, speech bubbles, and panel layout all handled automatically

On July 16, 2026, Microsoft released thecally renders entered conversations as comic strip panels. In addition to the code from before the official release in 1996 to the beta version in 1998, examples of modifications to make it work on current Windows environments are also available on GitHub. Microsoft Comic Chat is now open

Roblox will be shutting down Roblox Connect, its video calling service introduced in 2023