Twitch is the de facto spot on the internet for watching games. Whet5her those be from professional and amateur streamers, or for professionally-broadcast gaming leagues. That’s changing a bit, as Activision has inked a deal with Google that’ll see the video game company jump exclusively to using Google-based tech for its gaming in the future. Not only will Activision’s multiplayer games be hosted on Google’s Cloud, but its streaming proclivities for events and leagues will be exclusive to YouTube. That means Hearthstone, Call of Duty, Overwatch and future games will use YouTube for broadcast.

Built on Riot’s hyper-successful MOBA, Legends of Runeterra’s beta will run all the way through to the game’s as yet unknown final release.

Hearthstone’s final annual expansion has earned a reputation for being a bit much come the end of the season. Not in terms of content, I’ll take all the new cards and mechanics I get in a game that can grow stale within a series of weeks. No, I mean in terms of power. It happens with nearly every last expansion …

In a move that seems like an afterthought at best, the team that displayed the Free Hong Kong sign during an official Hearthstone stream have been banned for six months.

Following a week of mass outcries from fans and employees alike, Blizzard is reducing Blitzchung’s ban to six months and giving him back his prize money. In what continues to be the most surprising (yet at the same time unsurprising story) of the month so far, Blizzard has broken its silence on the controversial banning of professional Hearthstone player Chung …

The group of disgruntled employees held their protest in the centre of Blizzard’s main campus plaza, clearly visible by the company’s executive officers.

After banning and confiscating Hearthstone player Blitzchung’s competitive prize earnings following his statement of “Liberate Hong Kong”, Blizzard’s certainly in some hot water.

This weekend past, Hong Kong Hearthstone pro Chung "blitzchung" Ng Wai caused a storm of controversy when he appeared in a Hearthstone Grandmasters post-match interview, wearing a gas mask and goggles in defiance of the new law banning face masks in Hong Kong. In the stream, when he removed his mask, he shouted “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our age!." The stream has since been deleted from Blizzard’s Twitch channel - and Chung has been banned from play.