While fans of Metallica were treated to a special performance by the band at the end of BlizzCon 2021's opening ceremony, those watching on the official Twitch Gaming channel were treated to the concert with the most non-heavy metal music imaginable in order to avoid a DMCA claim. Shortly after Metallica started playing, Twitch switched over to royalty-free music to avoid a DMCA takedown, which predictably led to a hilarious few moments that was captured by those like @Slasher on Twitter.

the current state of Twitch: the official Twitch Gaming channel cut off the live Metallica concert to play 8bit folk music to avoid DMCA pic.twitter.com/sCn56So8Ee

— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) February 19, 2021

It would appear that Twitch did not obtain the proper rights to allow the music to be played on its channel. Fortunately, the concert and its music played as expected on other Twitch channels like Blizzard's own and the official BlizzCon livestream on YouTube. DMCA takedowns have been a huge issue for Twitch streamers recently, and Twitch even admitted that it has handled this situation poorly and promised that better tools are on the way. Besides this funny moment, BlizzCon 2021 has already provided some big news and reveals, including Diablo 2 Resurrected, Diablo 4's Rogue class, 55 new Overwatch 2 details, and so much more. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/19/diablo-2-resurrected-reveal-trailer"] As of this writing, Day 2 of BlizzCon is underway, and you can catch up on all the best announcements in our BlizzCon 2021 roundup. Blogroll Image Credit: Buda Mendes/Getty Images. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

While fans of Metallica were treated to a special performance by the band at the end of BlizzCon 2021's opening ceremony, those watching on the official Twitch Gaming channel were treated to the concert with the most non-heavy metal music imaginable in order to avoid a DMCA claim. Shortly after Metallica started playing, Twitch switched over to royalty-free music to avoid a DMCA takedown, which predictably led to a hilarious few moments that was captured by those like @Slasher on Twitter.

the current state of Twitch: the official Twitch Gaming channel cut off the live Metallica concert to play 8bit folk music to avoid DMCA pic.twitter.com/sCn56So8Ee

— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) February 19, 2021

It would appear that Twitch did not obtain the proper rights to allow the music to be played on its channel. Fortunately, the concert and its music played as expected on other Twitch channels like Blizzard's own and the official BlizzCon livestream on YouTube. DMCA takedowns have been a huge issue for Twitch streamers recently, and Twitch even admitted that it has handled this situation poorly and promised that better tools are on the way. Besides this funny moment, BlizzCon 2021 has already provided some big news and reveals, including Diablo 2 Resurrected, Diablo 4's Rogue class, 55 new Overwatch 2 details, and so much more. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/19/diablo-2-resurrected-reveal-trailer"] As of this writing, Day 2 of BlizzCon is underway, and you can catch up on all the best announcements in our BlizzCon 2021 roundup. Blogroll Image Credit: Buda Mendes/Getty Images. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

For nearly two decades now (and long before that if you count its Warcraft predecessors), World of Warcraft has centered around a conflict between two factions: the Alliance and Horde. Never have the twain been able to meet to do content together cooperatively in the MMORPG...but Blizzard says that may one day change. In today's World of Warcraft Q&A at BlizzCon 2021, panel moderator Scott Johnson asked a number of questions regarding the recent announcements of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Classic and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands' upcoming 9.1 patch to a panel of Blizzard developers including game director Ion Hazzikostas, touching on topics such as the recent cinematics and lore, character availability and transfer for The Burning Crusade Classic, and game balance. The discussion turned to the fact that some of the "realms," or servers in World of Warcraft have an exceedingly low population of either Alliance or Horde. And since players can only do raids, dungeons, quests, and most other content with their same faction, this can often lead to players either changing to higher population servers or switching factions, effectively either ensuring some servers become even more skewed, or are abandoned entirely. Hazzikostas cited features like cross-server gameplay and connected realms as having alleviated much of that issue, but acknowledged that it was still a problem due to the need for guilds to be made up of characters all on one server, among other issues. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/19/world-of-warcraft-shadowlands-chains-of-domination-trailer"] Johnson then asked the panel a question that he acknowledged comes up seemingly on a yearly basis, with a negative answer each time: would Blizzard ever let the Horde and Alliance raid, or do Mythic dungeons together? Hazzikostas bucked the trend with his response: "I honestly would not say never...There are a ton of reasons why it is essential to retain faction identity, but for the sake of rated arena, from day one, Alliance could fight Alliance and Horde could fight Horde. When Burning Crusade Classic comes out later this year, that will be a thing and that will be a competitive activity, and that was one of those areas where the gameplay and the need for matchmaking was the top priority and had to be. In an ideal world, all of these priorities would co-exist, but at the end of the day an MMO like World of Warcraft is about being able to play with your friends, being able to play where you want to be and arguably, there's greater stretch in the faction identity if you feel you can truly choose the faction you identify with, that you feel most a part of, and not have to sacrifice that because you need to be with your group or you want to join a higher-rated guild. "I have coworkers who are lifelong Alliance players who now play Horde, who really wish they could be Alliance, who are doing it for guild reasons, and I know there are tens of thousands, maybe more, in that exact same boat around the world. We'd love to do something for them." Whatever this change ends up looking like, it's clear that the potential unification Hazzikostas suggests isn't coming anytime soon. While Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination includes a number of new features including a new raid, a mega-dungeon, and a new outdoor area, it doesn't look like the Alliance and Horde will get to play together for now. But Blizzard does seem open to further big leaps that it may not have considered in the past, with developers telling IGN in a pre-BlizzCon interview that they are open to the idea of one day releasing a Wrath of the Lich King Classic version -- if enough players are interested. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

For nearly two decades now (and long before that if you count its Warcraft predecessors), World of Warcraft has centered around a conflict between two factions: the Alliance and Horde. Never have the twain been able to meet to do content together cooperatively in the MMORPG...but Blizzard says that may one day change. In today's World of Warcraft Q&A at BlizzCon 2021, panel moderator Scott Johnson asked a number of questions regarding the recent announcements of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Classic and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands' upcoming 9.1 patch to a panel of Blizzard developers including game director Ion Hazzikostas, touching on topics such as the recent cinematics and lore, character availability and transfer for The Burning Crusade Classic, and game balance. The discussion turned to the fact that some of the "realms," or servers in World of Warcraft have an exceedingly low population of either Alliance or Horde. And since players can only do raids, dungeons, quests, and most other content with their same faction, this can often lead to players either changing to higher population servers or switching factions, effectively either ensuring some servers become even more skewed, or are abandoned entirely. Hazzikostas cited features like cross-server gameplay and connected realms as having alleviated much of that issue, but acknowledged that it was still a problem due to the need for guilds to be made up of characters all on one server, among other issues. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/19/world-of-warcraft-shadowlands-chains-of-domination-trailer"] Johnson then asked the panel a question that he acknowledged comes up seemingly on a yearly basis, with a negative answer each time: would Blizzard ever let the Horde and Alliance raid, or do Mythic dungeons together? Hazzikostas bucked the trend with his response: "I honestly would not say never...There are a ton of reasons why it is essential to retain faction identity, but for the sake of rated arena, from day one, Alliance could fight Alliance and Horde could fight Horde. When Burning Crusade Classic comes out later this year, that will be a thing and that will be a competitive activity, and that was one of those areas where the gameplay and the need for matchmaking was the top priority and had to be. In an ideal world, all of these priorities would co-exist, but at the end of the day an MMO like World of Warcraft is about being able to play with your friends, being able to play where you want to be and arguably, there's greater stretch in the faction identity if you feel you can truly choose the faction you identify with, that you feel most a part of, and not have to sacrifice that because you need to be with your group or you want to join a higher-rated guild. "I have coworkers who are lifelong Alliance players who now play Horde, who really wish they could be Alliance, who are doing it for guild reasons, and I know there are tens of thousands, maybe more, in that exact same boat around the world. We'd love to do something for them." Whatever this change ends up looking like, it's clear that the potential unification Hazzikostas suggests isn't coming anytime soon. While Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination includes a number of new features including a new raid, a mega-dungeon, and a new outdoor area, it doesn't look like the Alliance and Horde will get to play together for now. But Blizzard does seem open to further big leaps that it may not have considered in the past, with developers telling IGN in a pre-BlizzCon interview that they are open to the idea of one day releasing a Wrath of the Lich King Classic version -- if enough players are interested. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

Rare's cancelled N64 game known as Dinosaur Planet, which ended up being repurposed into GameCube's Star Fox Adventures, has leaked online and is fully playable. Forest of Illusion on Twitter released the files to Dinosaur Planet and shared some screenshots of the game that featured Star Fox's Fox McCloud. Furthermore, while this version of Dinosaur Planet will not currently "run 100% perfectly on any emulator," Forest of Illusion states it will "work perfectly fine with flashcarts." Forest of Illusion purchased a disc from a private game collector in Sweden that had a build of Dinosaur Planet on it from December 1, 2000. It is said to be a late build of the game, and that it would "need some hacking to be fully playable to the end." Dinosaur Planet, as previously mentioned, became Star Fox Adventures and was released in 2002. In our review, we said "Star Fox Adventures arrives as a truly excellent 3D action-adventure for GameCube owners. It's a clear Zelda rip, and not quite as good, but that's okay in my book as Rare has still done a pretty good job of it." Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto was said to have been one of the driving forces in turning Dinosaur Planet into Star Fox Adventures. In an interview with IGN, when asked about the game, he even commented that "It looks really nice, doesn't it? I wish they would [use] Star Fox characters so that they could use the title Star Fox Adventures. Maybe I should call the team and talk about it. [laughs]." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2001/05/16/star-fox-adventures-gamecube-video"] You can read IGN's impressions of N64's Dinosaur Planet from 2001, when the game was already cancelled on N64 and was being reworked as a GameCube game. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Rare's cancelled N64 game known as Dinosaur Planet, which ended up being repurposed into GameCube's Star Fox Adventures, has leaked online and is fully playable. Forest of Illusion on Twitter released the files to Dinosaur Planet and shared some screenshots of the game that featured Star Fox's Fox McCloud. Furthermore, while this version of Dinosaur Planet will not currently "run 100% perfectly on any emulator," Forest of Illusion states it will "work perfectly fine with flashcarts." Forest of Illusion purchased a disc from a private game collector in Sweden that had a build of Dinosaur Planet on it from December 1, 2000. It is said to be a late build of the game, and that it would "need some hacking to be fully playable to the end." Dinosaur Planet, as previously mentioned, became Star Fox Adventures and was released in 2002. In our review, we said "Star Fox Adventures arrives as a truly excellent 3D action-adventure for GameCube owners. It's a clear Zelda rip, and not quite as good, but that's okay in my book as Rare has still done a pretty good job of it." Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto was said to have been one of the driving forces in turning Dinosaur Planet into Star Fox Adventures. In an interview with IGN, when asked about the game, he even commented that "It looks really nice, doesn't it? I wish they would [use] Star Fox characters so that they could use the title Star Fox Adventures. Maybe I should call the team and talk about it. [laughs]." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2001/05/16/star-fox-adventures-gamecube-video"] You can read IGN's impressions of N64's Dinosaur Planet from 2001, when the game was already cancelled on N64 and was being reworked as a GameCube game. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Martian Manhunter is one of several new characters appearing in Zack Snyder's Justice League who wasn't in the original theatrical release. Thanks to DC Comics, we now have a better idea of what actor Harry Lennix will actually look like as J'onn J'onzz. That tease comes in the form of a new variant cover to March's Justice League #59, drawn by DC's Chief Creative Officer Jim Lee. The cover suggests a fairly comic book-faithful approach to Martian Manhunter, though one that emphasizes his gangly Martian form rather than his more rounded and muscular superhero look. [caption id="attachment_2476340" align="aligncenter" width="2913"] Art by Jim Lee. (Image Credit: DC)[/caption] Lee and fellow DC artists Lee Bermejo (Batman: Damned) and Liam Sharp (The Green Lantern) are all drawing variant covers for Justice League #59, with the full team roster (and Darkseid!) divided among the three covers. DC is also offering black and white versions of these covers. You can check out all six covers in the slideshow gallery below: [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-snyder-cuts-martian-manhunter-revealed-in-justice-league-comic-covers&captions=true"] Lennix previously appeared in 2013's Man of Steel and 2016's Batman v Superman as Lt. General Calvin Swanwick, though we now know Swanwick is actually a disguised Martian Manhunter. Even Lennix himself didn't know the truth behind his character until he was approached to reprise his role in Justice League. At the time, Lennix's schedule didn't allow him to return, but he's since filmed new scenes for Snyder's revamped version of the film. Lennix joins other actors like Jared Leto and Joe Manganiello in filming new material for The Snyder Cut. We recently got a taste of how Leto's Joker factors into the plot of the movie, and he's quite a bit different from the version seen in 2016's Suicide Squad. Justice League #59 will hit stores on March 16, two days before Zack Snyder's Justice League arrives in theaters and on HBO Max. That issue is part of DC's Infinite Frontier relaunch and marks the beginning of writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist David Marquez's run on the title. Bendis and Marquez will be shaking things up quite a bit for the League, including adding Black Adam, Hippolyta and Naomi to the roster. But despite current rumors, DC is not renaming Black Adam "Shazadam." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/14/zack-snyders-justice-league-trailer-breakdown-will-batman-and-joker-be-allies"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

Martian Manhunter is one of several new characters appearing in Zack Snyder's Justice League who wasn't in the original theatrical release. Thanks to DC Comics, we now have a better idea of what actor Harry Lennix will actually look like as J'onn J'onzz. That tease comes in the form of a new variant cover to March's Justice League #59, drawn by DC's Chief Creative Officer Jim Lee. The cover suggests a fairly comic book-faithful approach to Martian Manhunter, though one that emphasizes his gangly Martian form rather than his more rounded and muscular superhero look. [caption id="attachment_2476340" align="aligncenter" width="2913"] Art by Jim Lee. (Image Credit: DC)[/caption] Lee and fellow DC artists Lee Bermejo (Batman: Damned) and Liam Sharp (The Green Lantern) are all drawing variant covers for Justice League #59, with the full team roster (and Darkseid!) divided among the three covers. DC is also offering black and white versions of these covers. You can check out all six covers in the slideshow gallery below: [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-snyder-cuts-martian-manhunter-revealed-in-justice-league-comic-covers&captions=true"] Lennix previously appeared in 2013's Man of Steel and 2016's Batman v Superman as Lt. General Calvin Swanwick, though we now know Swanwick is actually a disguised Martian Manhunter. Even Lennix himself didn't know the truth behind his character until he was approached to reprise his role in Justice League. At the time, Lennix's schedule didn't allow him to return, but he's since filmed new scenes for Snyder's revamped version of the film. Lennix joins other actors like Jared Leto and Joe Manganiello in filming new material for The Snyder Cut. We recently got a taste of how Leto's Joker factors into the plot of the movie, and he's quite a bit different from the version seen in 2016's Suicide Squad. Justice League #59 will hit stores on March 16, two days before Zack Snyder's Justice League arrives in theaters and on HBO Max. That issue is part of DC's Infinite Frontier relaunch and marks the beginning of writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist David Marquez's run on the title. Bendis and Marquez will be shaking things up quite a bit for the League, including adding Black Adam, Hippolyta and Naomi to the roster. But despite current rumors, DC is not renaming Black Adam "Shazadam." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/14/zack-snyders-justice-league-trailer-breakdown-will-batman-and-joker-be-allies"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

The fifth annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards winners have been announced and Jujutsu Kaisen leads with the most awards won. Fifteen million global votes were cast this year across 18 different categories celebrating characters, series, creators, and more, according to Crunchyroll. That's four million more than last year's 11 million votes cast, with the majority of votes this year coming from the United States, Brazil, and Mexico. Due to COVID-19, the awards show was a digital event and during it, Jujutsu Kaisen took home not only the most awards, but the biggest win of the night: Anime of the Year. Jujutsu Kaisen also won Best Antagonist for Ryomen Sukuna and Best Ending Sequence for Lost in Paradise by ALI featuring AKLO. Other winners include My Hero Academia, Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, and more. Here's the full list of winners:

• Anime of the Year: Jujutsu Kaisen
• Best Animation: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
• Best Fantasy: Re:ZERO - Starting Life In Another World (Season 2)
• Best Drama: Fruits Basket (Season 2)
• Best Comedy: Kaguya-sama: Love is War?
• Best Girl: Kaguya Shinomiya (Kaguya-sama: Love is War?)
• Best Boy: Shoyo Hinata (Haikyu!!! To The Top)
• Best Protagonist: Catarina Claes (My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom)
• Best Antagonist: Ryomen Sukuna (Jujutsu Kaisen)
• Best Fight Scene: Deku Vs. Overhaul (My Hero Academia, Season 4)
• Best Score: Kevin Penkin (Tower of God)
• Best Director: Masaaki Yuasa (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)
• Best Character Design: Mayuka Ito, original designs by Aidairo (Toiled-bound Hanako-kun)
• Best Couple: Nasa Yuzaki and Tsukasa Yuzaki (TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You)
• Best VA Performance (Japan): Yusuke Kobayashi as Natsuki Subaru (Re:ZERO - Starting Life In Another World, Season 2)
• Best VA Performance (English): Zeno Robinson as Hawks (My Hero Academia, Season 4)
• Best Opening Sequence (OP): Wild Side (ALI) for Beastars
• Best Ending Sequence (ED): Lost In Paradise by ALI featuring AKLO (Jujutsu Kaisen)

During the award show's livestream, five new anime were announced for the streaming service: Tokyo Revengers, Zombie Land Saga Revenge, I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years, Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood, and Odd Taxi. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/01/08/top-10-most-anticipated-anime-of-2021"] If you're looking for some anime to watch, check out IGN's list of the top 25 best anime series of all-time and then check out our list of new anime you should watch. Read this story about how Funimation is acquiring Crunchyroll for $1.2 billion after that. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. He recently started One Piece and wow, that's a lot of episodes to get caught up on, huh? You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

The fifth annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards winners have been announced and Jujutsu Kaisen leads with the most awards won. Fifteen million global votes were cast this year across 18 different categories celebrating characters, series, creators, and more, according to Crunchyroll. That's four million more than last year's 11 million votes cast, with the majority of votes this year coming from the United States, Brazil, and Mexico. Due to COVID-19, the awards show was a digital event and during it, Jujutsu Kaisen took home not only the most awards, but the biggest win of the night: Anime of the Year. Jujutsu Kaisen also won Best Antagonist for Ryomen Sukuna and Best Ending Sequence for Lost in Paradise by ALI featuring AKLO. Other winners include My Hero Academia, Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, and more. Here's the full list of winners:

• Anime of the Year: Jujutsu Kaisen
• Best Animation: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
• Best Fantasy: Re:ZERO - Starting Life In Another World (Season 2)
• Best Drama: Fruits Basket (Season 2)
• Best Comedy: Kaguya-sama: Love is War?
• Best Girl: Kaguya Shinomiya (Kaguya-sama: Love is War?)
• Best Boy: Shoyo Hinata (Haikyu!!! To The Top)
• Best Protagonist: Catarina Claes (My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom)
• Best Antagonist: Ryomen Sukuna (Jujutsu Kaisen)
• Best Fight Scene: Deku Vs. Overhaul (My Hero Academia, Season 4)
• Best Score: Kevin Penkin (Tower of God)
• Best Director: Masaaki Yuasa (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)
• Best Character Design: Mayuka Ito, original designs by Aidairo (Toiled-bound Hanako-kun)
• Best Couple: Nasa Yuzaki and Tsukasa Yuzaki (TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You)
• Best VA Performance (Japan): Yusuke Kobayashi as Natsuki Subaru (Re:ZERO - Starting Life In Another World, Season 2)
• Best VA Performance (English): Zeno Robinson as Hawks (My Hero Academia, Season 4)
• Best Opening Sequence (OP): Wild Side (ALI) for Beastars
• Best Ending Sequence (ED): Lost In Paradise by ALI featuring AKLO (Jujutsu Kaisen)

During the award show's livestream, five new anime were announced for the streaming service: Tokyo Revengers, Zombie Land Saga Revenge, I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years, Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood, and Odd Taxi. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/01/08/top-10-most-anticipated-anime-of-2021"] If you're looking for some anime to watch, check out IGN's list of the top 25 best anime series of all-time and then check out our list of new anime you should watch. Read this story about how Funimation is acquiring Crunchyroll for $1.2 billion after that. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. He recently started One Piece and wow, that's a lot of episodes to get caught up on, huh? You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.