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It’s probably already too late to clean up your gaming habits for Steam’s upcoming ‘year in review’
Cameo will now let you video call celebs for 10 minutes, which is probably too long
Starting today (Aug. 18), Cameo will be offering 10-minute calls with celebs via a service they’re calling “Cameo Live,” which honestly sounds like too much time to spend with a celebrity. (Never meet your heroes.)
Through this new Live feature, you can choose to chat one-on-one or invite up to nine friends to join you. No information was available about average pricing for these sessions, but the company noted that “talent are firmly on board because the longer time frame and larger call attendance… build more personal relationships with fans than ever before.”
Cameo has tried this concept twice before: first by offering Zoom-call Cameos in June 2020 and then moving the service to their app with Cameo Calls of up to 15 minutes. But in their announcement today, the company referred to Cameo Calls (which will be phased out) as its “two-minute meet & greet product.”
That implies that the original Cameo Call length of 15 minutes was… 13 minutes too long.
Industry precedent (and common sense) confirms that even an awkward five minutes can feel like an eternity. The K-Pop industry, which has been hosting fan calls since March 2020, only allows about 90 seconds per group member. To attend, fans buy albums from approved merchants, with each album counting as a single entry into a lottery for a limited number of fan call slots.
Cameo Live isn’t such a gamble; you’re all but guaranteed a call with your favorite reality TV star for a fee. But maybe keep that call to a quick, cute five minutes.
Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 15, 2022)
Gremlins’ Stripe and Black Adam are probably coming to MultiVersus
A new MultiVersus leak appears to have revealed that someone fed a Mogwai after midnight (also Black Adam is there).
After a short delay, MultiVersus Season One launches later today, and soon enough the game will see the arrival of Morty of Rick and Morty fame. But it also seems that some more characters that haven’t had an official reveal yet were accidentally shown off early, as reported by Eurogamer.
Game director Tony Huynh shared yesterday (August 14) that players could expect to see some unannounced characters in the login screen today (August 15), presumably once Season One launched, but an ad on the Xbox store has gone live a little bit early.
Remember When North Korea Launched Its Massive ICBM? Well, They Probably Faked It
Do you remember back in March when international analysts were equal parts terrified by the prospect of North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles and bemused by Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s self parody-level video promoting their military might? Well, evidence produced by experts on missile proliferation and…