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Revamped game streaming platform lets developers make their digital games accessible on multiple platforms
Read More »Twitch introduces streaming for mobile games
New SDK allows users to broadcast and capture footage from smartphone titles
Read More »Twitch gets higher broadcast resolution on Xbox One than PS4
Video streaming via Twitch on Xbox One has been found to be of better quality than on PS4. Videogamer reports that a recent broadcast from Microsoft’s Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb on Twitch via Xbox One was streaming at a resolution of 1280×720 at 30 frames per second. By comparison, PS4’s …
Read More »Over nine million people watched perplexed as Twitch Plays Pokemon beat the Elite Four
More than one million users input commands as players overcame the odds to beat the Elite Four, each other and arch nemesis Blue
Read More »How PS4 developers can interact with their players
SCEE's Agostino Simonetta discusses the console's networking and sharing capabilities
Read More »Twitch game broadcasting dated for Xbox One
CEO Emmett Shear touts deep level of integration with console
Read More »Twitch streaming arriving on Xbox One alongside Titanfall next month
Xbox One will offer integrated Twitch video streaming from next month. It will arrive alongside Titanfall on March 11th and is described by Twitch CEO and co-founder Emmett Shear as a complete integration”. "It’s exciting because we’ve never had the ability to broadcast from a console like this with such …
Read More »Justin.tv brand to be retired in favour of Twitch
The company known as Justin.tv has been rebranded as Twitch Interactive. It comes as Twitch announces that it now boasts over one million active broadcasters and averages over 13 billion minutes watched per month from its 45m viewers. The Justin.tv brand, from which Twitch was originally a gaming offshoot, will …
Read More »Analyst labels PlayStation Now ‘a joke’
Sony’s upcoming streaming games service PlayStation Now is a joke” according to outspoken US analyst Michael Pachter. The problem, he argues, is that publishers will be unwilling to licence their content for fear of adversely affecting their software’s ongoing sales. "PlayStation Now is a joke," he told Game Informer, as …
Read More »AppStream could bring EVE character creation to mobile
CCP experimenting with Amazon tech to cut download down-time
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