In our daily round-up of news across the industry, our list today includes coverage that comes with content warnings. Our first story contains mentions of sexual abuse against minors, regarding Twitch’s failure to ban a streamer arrested for rape charges. The stories following end our content warning, and continue with stories like Nintendo’s lawsuit against RomUniverse, and xQc’s Twitch ban.
Fortnite streamer Raulino de Oliveira Maciel, known on Twitch as RaulZito, was arrested last month on “rape of the vulnerable” charges. The arrest became public on July 27, 2021, over two weeks ago, but as reported by Kotaku, Twitch took until yesterday to ban him from the platform. Maciel’s alleged abuse…
