Dr Disrespect returns insisting conversations with "minor" were "inappropriate jokes taken out of context"

High-profile streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm has returned to YouTube – two months after admitting he exchanged “messages with an individual minor” that “leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate” – accusing critics of a “planned and coordinated attack”, and asking, “Did any of you consider [they] may have been over the legal age of consent?”.

Beahm admitted to conduct that “leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate” with a minor back in June, after Twitch’s former account director of strategic partnerships, Cody Conners, claimed an unnamed person had been banned from the streaming platform “because [he] got caught sexting a minor”. Those allegations were later directly linked to Beahm by The Verge when the publication spoke with t…

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Sony quietly increases price of PlayStation 5 DualSense controller

Sony has quietly increased the price of a DualSense controller for its PlayStation 5 console.
As spotted by social media account Wario64, the price of various DualSense colour models has increased by $5 in multiple US retailers, but more importantly on Sony’s official store PlayStation Direct.
The basic white DualSense controller has increased from $69.99 to $74.99. Over on the UK PlayStation Direct site, the same controller costs £64.99 – up from £59.99 previously.

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