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This Among Us Minecraft totem is very sus

Among Us has now lurked its way into just about every videogame community around, and, naturally, this has resulted in plenty of fan-created content. I mean, we've already seen the social deduction game recreated in 3D in Unreal Engine 4 with ray tracing - how on earth do you top that?

Well, the Minecraft community has been hard at work doing its bit by putting out Among Us skins and the like, but we've now been graced with a very sus Among Us Minecraft totem. This simple retexture turns any totems of undying you may find into a mini crewmember. These totems are handy items that allow you to cheat death, provided that you have one equipped in your hand prior to the fatal blow, explosion, etc.

The cutesy results have proved popular over on the ol' Minecraft subreddit, with the post approaching 40k upvotes at the time of writing. As neat as it is, you have to be rocking Minecraft Java to set it up correctly.

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AOC sets a Twitch record with her Among Us stream

Star-studded Among Us lobbies have been part of the game's massive popularity on Twitch. But no lobby has ever contained a US politician - that was, until last night.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made her Twitch debut last night alongside popular streamers such as Imane 'Pokimane' Anys, Hasan 'Hasan' Piker, Ali 'Myth' Kabbani, and Jeremy 'DisguisedToast' Wang. With her account having hundreds of thousands of followers before she even went live and getting partnered in less than an hour, it's safe to say that the stream was highly anticipated.

Well, the historic stream lived up to the hype and pulled in the viewers as Ocasio-Cortez set a Twitch record: the highest peak audience for a debut stream. While sites such as Twitch Tracker report a peak of 426,000, Rod 'Slasher' Breslau claims that the actual peak was 439,000. Either way, it's the largest number of people in a Twitch streamer's first broadcast ever. Combined with the streams of the other players in the lobby, viewership of the Among Us session would have sailed comfortably past half a million.

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AOC starts a Twitch account to play Among Us with Pokimane and HasanAbi

October 20, 2020 AOC's first Twitch stream starts tonight.

The United States presidential election is now just a couple of weeks away - don't know if you've heard about it - and political figures really want you to vote. That includes US House representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is making the most of her gaming credentials to get out the vote. Now, of course, that means she's getting into Among Us.

AOC is going to be playing Among Us with Pokimane, HasanAbi, and others on her new Twitch channel at 18:00 PDT / 21:00 EDT / 2:00 BST. On Twitter, she says that they'll "help folks make a voting plan at iwillvote.com and officially declare orange sus on Among Us."

Yesterday, AOC tweeted "Anyone want to play Among Us with me on Twitch to get out the vote? (I've never played but it looks like a lot of fun)." Within moments, notable streaming names jumped in to offer a helping hand. AOC replied shortly after that "I'll set up an account and get some streaming equipment today."

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Among Us costumes guide: how to unlock seasonal skins and outfits

Want to know how to unlock Among Us costumes? There are a wonderful array of Among Us free hats and accessories available, which adorn your little space bean as they cavort through the corridors - either on their way to a gruesome death, or in search of a hapless victim. If you're looking to freshen up your Among Us outfit and try out a new style, you'll notice you've now got access to Among Us Halloween hats, which are unlocked and available to all players - so you can pop a pumpkin on your head, stick a fake machete to your face (hopefully not tempting fate) or try your best to look innocent in a pair of devil horns.

These new Among Us Halloween styles will be unlocked automatically by logging into Among Us in the weeks coming up to Halloween itself, October 31. Among Us Halloween hats and costumes aren't the only seasonal addition to Among Us; some of the Among Us maps - The Skeld and Mira HQ, to be precise - have been decorated in a Halloween theme.

You'll find green goop dripping mysteriously from corners, gourds hanging out wherever they please, bats all over the walls, and bowls of candy spread throughout the maps. There's even a cute little InnerSloth ghost hiding in a corner. If you've noticed people running around with witches' hats atop their brightly coloured heads in previous weeks, chances are they used some time travel shenanigans to set their computers to the spooky season early. Though you'll no longer stand out from the crowd with Among Us Halloween hats, there are more seasonal ensembles to unlock early using the same method - here's how to get them.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's new Twitch channel gets partnered within an hour

Ahead of the US Election next month, Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has devised an interesting strategy to convince young people to vote: become a Twitch streamer.

Ocasio-Cortez tweeted out on October 19 in search of people to play Among Us with her for what would be her first ever Twitch stream. As you can expect, she was inundated with applications in the comments, and it seems as if two of Twitch's biggest streamers have landed a spot on the Among Us stream. Both Imane 'Pokimane' Anys and Hasan 'Hasan' Piker received replies from the congresswoman.

In preparation for the star-studded Among Us stream, Ocasio-Cortez created a Twitch account. While it takes most new creators years to even get near to Twitch Partner status, AOC's channel managed to achieve it in less than an hour. At the time of writing, which is around 14 hours on from when she created her channel, AOC has over 170,000 followers.

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