With no E3 this year, you might have wondered just how well the biggest players in the video game industry were going to do without a weeklong onslaught of gaming hype to give them free advertising. Turns out, that the long game of constant announcements over many weeks was just as effective!

Field reports from the Twitch battlefield indicated that a US Army offensive into live-streaming would result in an easy victory. Having their very own esports team reporting for duty, America’s military muscle was looking to win hearts, minds and a few new recruits for wherever their next war would take them. The only problem? All those pesky kids asking them about their many war crimes.

Streaming giant Twitch has been a whole new platform as of late. Love or loathe the fella, but seeing Dr Disrespect (Guy Beahm to his mom and dad) get slapped with an RKO-banning from outta nowhere was a sign that things were changing on Twitch. So what happened, what was the final straw o the Twitch camel’s back that finally saw their patience run out with the controversial streamer?

And this time, it may be for good.

A new month is almost here, and on the verge of America’s birthday, Twitch has a whole bunch of free games on the way. Provided that you’re signed up for Amazon Prime that is, so that you can reap the benefits of a Twitch Prime account. Next month’s offerings are a mixture of classic first-person action, tight racing and some stealthy action. Here’s the full list of what will be unlocked from July 1.

Like many before it, Mixer failed in its bid to topple the titan that is Twitch, and is now officially dead.

It might be one of the oldest games known to man, but chess is still finding a new audiences on Twitch.

People Can Fly’s latest venture into the shooter realm looks more restrained than Bulletstorm but still has plenty of big guns and even bigger explosions.