Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Welcome to "WaPo Story Mode," a recurring show on Thursdays at 4 p.m. ET where the Washington Post's video game coverage team, Launcher, brings on big-name guests to discuss the top gaming news of the week and provide a quick round-up of other top stories.

In this episode, we invite on former Director of Creator Development at Twitch Marcus Graham, better known as djWHEAT, to discuss the current allegations that Twitch is considering cutting top streamers' subscriber revenue sharing from 70% to 50%, according to Bloomberg. They discuss this and other top news gaming the week.

Here is the Bloomberg story: bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-27/amazon-s-twitch-seeks-to-revamp-creator-pay-with-focus-on-profit

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0:00 Waiting room
0:40 Stream start
2:19 Revenue split changes
30:22 Priorities for Twitch
43:41 The next Twitch?
56:24 Updating the partner program
1:08:03 Growing the platform
1:18:42 djWHEAT’s future role
1:24:12 Overwatch 2 beta
1:37:33 Unionization news
1:42:20 Halo Infinite plans
1:52:50 Mario movie update
1:55:35 Russian FSB raid and The Sims 3
1:59:24 Elon Musk to buy Twitter
2:11:56 Half-Life TikTok voice