Unless you’ve got the world’s most powerful ad blocker, you’re probably painfully aware that it’s Prime Day, a holiday that Amazon made up because it could. Deals parade naked in the streets and the company hosts glitzy concerts, all to encourage Amazon Prime subscribers to stick around.

For the second year in a row, however, some Amazon warehouse workers are striking in the midst of all this; workers in Germany are striking over unfair pay, whereas workers in Minnesota are striking over unsafe working conditions. Amazon owns Twitch, and some streamers are boycotting the streaming platform as a show of solidarity. For other streamers, though, the situation isn’t so black and white.

Blizzard has revoked the invites of two players, Thomas "Sintolol" Zimmer and Mats "P4wnyhof" Kathage, to the upcoming Global Games because of "recent, inappropriate, and unsportsmanlike comments", after at least one player protested the inclusion of P4wnyhof by withdrawing from the tournament.

After a court order was issued preventing rapper-turned-hacker George Hotz from ever hacking Sony products again, Hotz has begun a boycott on the electronics giant's wares.

Found on the PC Gamer Forums via Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Either Sony's gotta cut its price or the Danish kroner's gotta get a lot weaker against the dollar for the PSPgo's sake. It's listed at 2,000 DKK — or AU$454, one reason retailers there aren't stocking the thing.

Whatever your view is of these kinds of gestures - internet boycotts, petitions and such - Left 4 Dead might be the first critically acclaimed franchise whose announcement of a sequel was answered by nearly 10,000 fans pledging not to buy it.