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Twitch, the Amazon-owned streaming site, will ban users from posting videos of themselves playing slots, roulette or dice games on unlicensed gambling sites, the company has said. The ban, which will be effective as of 18 October, comes in the wake of a wide-ranging scandal among top-tier streamers after British streamer ItsSliker admitted to…

Twitch allows people to live stream video games and everyday activities, but has also been a boon for online gambling Twitch.tv, the popular live streaming website bought by Amazon for US$970mln in 2014, has announced a ban on unregulated gambling activity effective from October 18. The move has been a long time in the making, given the ongoing…

Unregulated gambling is once more becoming an issue on Twitch, with big creators under fire and more commentary channels focusing on the topic. After months of discussion over relatively tame topics like ASMR or hot tub streaming, gambling is an area with the potential to cause massive problems for Twitch, which is yet to take any strong action or…

Tyler Niknam was getting out of Texas. Niknam, 30, is a top streamer on Twitch, where he's better known as Trainwrecks to his 1.5 million followers. For hours on end, Niknam was hitting the slots on Stake.com, an online cryptocurrency casino and his most prominent Twitch sponsor, to live audiences of 25000. He'd been winning big, sometimes as much…