Blizzard adds stream-safe mode to 27-year-old game

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Blizzard adds stream-safe mode to 27-year-old game

A version of Rock N' Roll Racing included in the Blizzard Arcade Collection now has a streaming mode, allowing the nearly 30-year-old game to be played safely on Twitch.

If you want to stream the classic game included in Blizzard's nostalgic bundle, which includes licensed soundtracks of hits by Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and Steppenwolf, the developer previously advised players to turn off Rock N' Roll to the game, they had advised them to turn it off. In the new streamer mode, these songs have been replaced with MIDI covers, allowing the game to be safely streamed in silence.

Updates added four-player local multiplayer to Rock N' Roll Racing and two games to the Arcade Collection: Lost Vikings 2, the predecessor to Rock N' Roll Racing, RPM Racing, which was first released by Blizzard (then known as Silicon & Synapse). All of these additions are offered as free updates and come with a new design documentation gallery covering the development of each game

Blizzard itself ran afoul of overreaching music copyright practices during the BlizzCon stream that announced the arcade collection Blizzard itself violated excessive music copyright practices during the BlizzCon stream announcing the Arcade Collection. After going to the trouble of having Metallica perform on-stream, Twitch Gaming ended up replacing the band's heavy metal riffs with cutesy chiptunes

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