Minecraft Education Edition released, Twitch announces Twitch Prime benefits! Community Catch Up #2

Hello everybody this is warrior din once again bringing you up to speed on all the latest gaming news in this newest edition of community cuts up without further ado let’s get into the news for today once again popping up in the news this time for actually doing something

Good valve has announced that they will be adding full steam support for PlayStation 4 controllers meaning that soon if not already you will have the option to play all of your favorite valve games on a ps4 controller and game developers will be able to add ps4 controller support to their own steam

Games as well all this info came out of the recent steam dev days conference a conference run by valve that ran from October twelfth to October 13 last month I will be reading segment of the original announcement now soon we will be sipping an update that adds full configurability two controllers other

Than the steam controller this means that players can pair their ps4 controller directly to their PC and use all the configurability options available to the steam controller including use of the ps4 cuts pad and guy row now a guy row those of you who are not familiar with this tech term is

Basically a type of advanced motion sensor which is programmed to detect changes or deviations in Moses now why start with the ps4 controller well not only is it a nice high quality controller that’s also got a guy wrote and touchpad so it’s got a lot of overlapping functionality with the steam

Controller by what steam younes it’s pretty easy to introduce the steam controller into the steam OS because it’s already pretty similar to their own controller also existing native support for the ps4 controller on the pc is a bit weak in this case steam itself is communicating directly with the device

So everything is nice and reliable many steam users have been asking about to add ferd party controller support such as places in free and for controller support as well as the Xbox brand support so it’s good to see them finally taking action and working something out

What Sony I’m not likely to ever buy a place isn’t for not even with their new ps4 neo model coming out nor am i planning on investing into an xbox one or Xbox Scorpio either but I might consider picking up a pea for controller or two so i can play

Split screen multiplayer games with friends also let’s be honest ps4 controller is a lot nicer to play with on a pc compared to the old fat xbox 360 controller that most pc players use myself included and actually given this announcement i wonder if we’ll actually see more split-screen multiplayer

Support added to steam games in the future because if steam makes it easier to play split screen games with friends by using a ps4 controller I wonder if developers will start to add more split-screen support to their own games I still think if steam wanted to really incentivize people to actually buy and

Use their steam macine console or otherwise hook up their computer to a TV monitor and use it like a gaming console you’re going to need to give people more options in regards to controls also if you allowed people to continue using their existing game console controllers like the ps4 controller while at the

Same time adding some exclusive features to your official steam machine controllers then you could slowly convert people over to your hardware without offending and ignoring the larger body of gamers who may want to stick with their own preferred controller all in all it’s quite a brilliant albia commonly used marketing

Tactic all now nice job Sony and nice job valve for working this out but that’s all I have to say as far as this topic goes on to our next piece of news for today our next news story is a funny one I’ll be a bit of an odd one now if

You’ve been paying any attention to over wats the class spacesuit are made by blizzard the developers behind games like World of Warcraft you’ll likely have heard about the recent over one’s halloween update wits among other things added an all new wave based co-op mode where four players have to work together

To defeat wave after wave of zombie robots yep just don’t ask don’t ask how that logic works now while that’s a bit odd even on its own things turned a little bit stranger when on the official overlaps reddit paids reports started coming in from a handful of players that

Blizzard had hidden a secret easter egg in the level which could only be activated by locating and murdering all the crows flying around in the level now when I initially heard this news story I kind of had to laugh while I’m entirely up for leaving a feast for the crows and

Yes I’m making the game a french reference so you’re here for me I’ve never been evil enough to consider murdering a crow itself does not that cold hearted over the course of a day and a half reddit users concentrated all their efforts on unlocking this secret easter egg but to

No avail finally after rumors continued to circulate and as thousands of crows sadly lost their lives to the greedy eastern countries roaming the level blizzard finally came out and made a statement in regards to the over wats crow killin conundrum confirming the overwatch team did not include any

Easter egg involving the crows so now although the mass murder of Halloween crows did continue for a long while until the update ended we can rest assured now overwatch Halloween players at least one cat any secret easter eggs or hidden bonuses nothing to crow about for continuing their wantin violence

Against these poor innocent animals now that we’ve had our moment of silence for these poor Birds onto our next topic for today acclaimed game developer Turtle Rock Studios announces their departure from evolved States to their free-to-play asymmetrical multiplayer game after 2k games evolves publisher declined to renew their contract with

Turtle Rock Studios for those of you who don’t know much about evolve evolve is an arena based suitor game where a team of four players team up against a one player controlled monster in a large arena for more information on evolve on what it is how it plays out you can

Check out my full game review which I’ll leave a link to on screen now turtle rock released a public heartfelt statement on the game’s official forums I’ll add a link in the video description but i’ll just be reading part of the post here in this video the last five

And a half years represents so much we are so so proud of evolve as well as the turtle rock team and the evolved community getting on the forums reddit Facebook and Twitter and talking directly to you has been a highlight of many of our careers I know of a project

Have we been able to interact so directly the evolved community is the best we could have hoped for and we hope you come with us and become a part of the turtle rock community we want to thank all the people at THQ who initially believed in us when we were

That tiny studio in a little converted warehouse with a dream of making something truly different thanks to 2k games for picking up the mantle out of THQ’s bankruptcy in making evolve one of the most anticipated games of 2015 additional big thanks to 2k for reaching outside of their comfort zone and funding

Evolved stage 2 by taking a trip away game free to play which was a first for all of us most of all we want to thank you our players for supporting evolve and evolve States too many of you from the very beginning you embraced our

Vision and fell in love with it just as we did we have learned so much from you thank you for all your feedback your support and your dedication now 2k games who is the publisher for evolve has confirmed that evolve will not be setting down and development of the game

Will continue in the near future nothing else is known at the moment fans have petitioned online for 2k games to bring the Turtle Rock team back but given the nature of this forum post I have a very strong feeling we will not be seeing Turtle Rock come back as the main

Developer of evolve however that does not roll out Turtle Rock coming back in some form for example similar to how they came back for left 4 dead 2 to create a post release campaign speaking that someone who really does love evolve stage 2 I personally whisk the Turtle

Rock team all the best moving forward I think they’ve been an amazing team and I look forward to seeing what ever they come out with next and I also look forward to seeing what ever 2k games decide to do with evolve in the meantime now on to our next news story for today

Earlier this week microsoft announced the release of minecraft education edition a customized version of minecraft specifically designed for teachers and other educators allowing them to easily use minecraft as an educational platform for teasing subjects like history science and almost anything else they want to teach some of

The features include a mini map allowing teachers detract the locations of all students in the game teachers can easily have up to 30 students all working together in one single minecraft world teachers can create non-playable characters commonly known as NPCs tact as guides in Game four students providing useful information even

Clickable web links to external websites students will have access to an exclusive camera feature and a portfolio feature where they can take in-game screenshots and save them to the computer teachers can create their own lesson plans including downloading pre-made custom minecraft maps specifically based around certain educational topics and more

Features will doubtlessly be added into the game now I think it’s a fantastic idea that Microsoft is using minecraft as an educational tool to help change the way some students learn anything we can do as individuals or corporations like Microsoft to help children learn and boost their creativity can only be a

Good thing now the pricing is fairly reasonable for the education edition of Minecraft it’s currently set at only five dollars a student so if you have a classroom of save 30 students you’re looking at roughly 150 bucks a month or your regional equivalent which is not that unreasonable price if you ask me

Honestly if I they’re going to make a little bit more expensive say seven or eight bucks a student so five dollars a month per student doesn’t seem that bad to me I could see many private schools and possibly even some of the bigger public schools integrating minecraft

Into their existing classes but what do you think do you think minecraft could help enhance learning in the classroom or do you think minecraft should stick to being just a recreational game something that you play on your spare time just for fun there was no right or

Wrong answer here but I just wanted to bring up a discussion so let me know what you think down below about minecraft special dissing in the comments and let’s build a conversation from there and yes step that was a Minecraft fun you know building it all

Down anyway we’ve got our news to cover so on to the next story it seems every month something is going on with YouTube but this time it’s it’s a good thing youtube on October the 11 announced that they had acquired frame bit an online marketing platform where content

Creators can easily connect with major companies and signed and paid sponsorships in order to boost their sandals income now with this buyout YouTube released a statement regarding its plans for integrating frame bit into the existing YouTube platform given the length of this statement I’ll only be reading part of it the part that

Specifically impacts you the people who want and create content for YouTube if you want to read the original article i will try to put a link in the description below but without further ado here we go every year more and more brands are making YouTube essential to

Their marketing strategy in fact in the last year alone the top 100 advertisers have increased their spending on YouTube ads by fifty percent as brands continue to embrace the value of YouTube they’re also taking their investments one-step barber partnering with creators on branded content opportunities such as product placement promotions and

Sponsorships as we look together to the future we want even more creators and brands to come together and realize the benefits of these creative collaborations today we’re excited to announce that YouTube has acquired frame bit a technology platform company that helps creators and brands find and work together through sponsorships and paid

Promotion we believe that Google’s relationship with brands and YouTube’s partnerships with craters combined wit frame bits technology and expertise will help increase the number of branded opportunities bringing in even more revenue to the online video community creators will always have the choice in how they work with brands and there are

Many great companies who provide the service today this acquisition does not change that I hope is that frame bits Democratic marketplace will allow creators of all sizes to directly connect with brands as well as provide a great technological solution for companies like MCNS to find matches for their creators and brand partners we

Look forward to seeing frame bit and the entire branded content space become more successful as we continue to support the success and creativity of the creative community ok I see a lot of interesting things going on behind the scenes here so let me break this all down and just

Give you my thoughts on why YouTube’s doing this in their plans moving forward I think YouTube is starting to see that for many people YouTube is not only a hobby it’s becoming something that you can make an income out of and I think YouTube does want to do what’s best for

Its craters frame that’s been doing a lot of great services for many years but it’s primarily directed at the top 10% the big content creators if you don’t have at least I’d say 10,000 subscribers you’re not likely to get many good sponsorships and frame bent I forget exactly what the minimum requirement is

In order to get us conscious upon frame bit but I believe they don’t normally accept channels below a thousand subscribers but I’m not entirely sure what I’m afraid of is if YouTube does acquire frame bit and opens it up everyone will we start to see channels

With like 50 subscribers or 100 start to get access to sponsorships if sponsors now have to work with all of the YouTube community that means that you’re going to have a lot more competition on the market and it’s possible advertisers may not be willing to spend as much per

Channel because they have to spread out their budgets across from broader spectrum so this will be a good thing I think for the YouTube community but I hope YouTube does play some restrictions down such as locking off access to frame bit until you hit I don’t know 500

Subscribers i would say especially now that youtube has like this tiered system where if you get up to 500 subscribers you get benefits or a thousand or ten thousand i think if google offers frame bit as like a premium service to some youtubers that have already proven that

They have an audience and not just any one out of the gate then i think this could be something that could benefit the whole youtube community but we’re just gonna have to see how they implement this either way it’s time to move on to our next news story and final

News story for today twitch has recently announced twits prime a new service offered by the popular live streaming site twits in collaboration with their new owner amazon.com who had bought twits in August 2014 for a total sum of just under 1 billion dollars which is a

Lot of money would have in Quran in sore twits prime grants twits users who have amazon prime accounts access to a number of exclusive features including an ad free viewing experience you can continue to watch your favorite twit streamers without watching ads and craters will still receive ad revenue from me as if

You would actually want to add basically twits prime right off the bat offers you exactly what YouTube bread is offering you in terms of bad free content while still being able to support content creators you will also get one free twitch channel subscription per month normally to subscribe to a twitch

Channel you have to pay a flat monthly fee which is usually around five dollars on a monthly basis as a twitch prime user you can support one twitch streamer of your choice per month amazon will pay for it the channel you subscribe to will receive money from your twitter

Subscription courtesy of twits / amazon the same as if you would manually given the money yourself twitch prime users also have access to other perks such as exclusive mosa cons free game giveaways and in-game item giveaways and apparently more features they haven’t yet twitch has also announced that they’re

Working on new ways to deepen their relationships between quit streamers and their audiences starting with the new loyalty Benzes feature allowing streamers to create and upload their own exclusive badges which can be given al automatically or manually to longtime fans personally I think this is a

Fantastic idea and this is the kind of thing that can help separate Twitter and YouTube in my mind twits judging by these announcements is doubling down on T things right now a strong focus on community building between creators and viewers while at the same time expanding

Their view as a company beyond st sports and appealing to more casual content creators as exemplified by creating an ad free premium program for viewers to it seems really committed to reinventing itself in a blatant attempt to appeal to youtube’s content creators and get them to transition over to twits as their

Main platform this actually leads us into a second piece of news regarding twist as part of the original twits prime announcement twits revealed that video uploads were being added as a feature to twist meaning that now people will be able to upload their pre-recorded videos directly to their to

Exhale a feature that people have been asking them for four years twist content critters will be able to upload custom thumbnails for their videos scheduled videos for a future upload date edit the video title and description as well as certs tags to help their video as a pure tell wider audience and even

Automatically send notifications to their followers and subscribers when a new video has been uploaded basically all the basics of what YouTube does already the peers that twitch is trying to emulate some of YouTube’s core video upload features while at the same time trying to appear unique now me

Personally along with a small group of other content creators X I got a chance to sit down and talk to some of Twitter’s development team behind the scenes and get a feel for what they’re trying to do the twits team seems very enthusiastic to be adding the video

Uploads to twits they’ve been incredibly nice and supportive we’ve had a lot of engaging discussions about how to improve the video upload system on twits while it’s still in somewhat of an early beta they seemed genuinely interested in hearing from us and how you can make things better for youtubers

Who are considering moving over to twits from YouTube they’ve even gone so far as to implement several of our ideas and suggestions almost immediately something I I certainly wasn’t expecting now I’m not going to say that twitch is suddenly going to be the next big thing or that

It’s going to directly compete with YouTube but it’s definitely moving in the right direction and given some time and improvement it might be a platform or if moving over to for some people I’m not saying I’m personally going to abandon YouTube and move over to twits

Instead but this news for me does open up some very interesting possibilities and for now that’s all I’m going to say I’m pleading the fifth on this one that’s all the news we have for today if you have any ideas for a news topic I could be covering in the next video

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