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Twitch and mobile MOBA Vainglory developers Super Evil Megacorp have signed an investment deal to see the touchscreen eSport promoted on-site for the next three years. The game, in which teams of three players compete using touchscreen devices across a single lane MOBA map has grown throughout the last year …
Read More »Rocket League was nearly an open-world game with more than just football
Developer Psyonix credits momentum on social media and launching through PlayStation Plus as reason for game’s success
Read More »‘Let’s Play videos stopped us earning any money,’ says That Dragon, Cancer creator
‘We underestimated how many people would be satisfied with only watching the game instead of playing it themselves’
Read More »‘To make games the most powerful artform, don’t freak out about dick jokes’
Indie dev Robert Yang critiques apparent fear of games to address sexual topics
Read More »How can YouTube Gaming close the gap on Twitch?
Since it was spun out of streaming firm Justin.tv in 2011, Twitch has risen to be one of the most prominent players in the modern games media. And with an average 8.5m people coming to Twitch every single day, it’s entirely understandable that other firms would want in on the …
Read More »Twitch urges devs to make livestreaming games with Developer Success initiative
Programme promotes ‘Stream First’ as a valuable game design philosophy for creators
Read More »Twitch to live-stream MCV Awards 2016
The great and the good of the UK games industry will tomorrow head to the Hilton Bankside Hotel, London for the MCV Awards 2016. But if you can’t make it, log on to Twitch.tv which will be live-streaming the entire event. The live-streaming video platform is also sponsoring the Digital …
Read More »Archived Twitch streams to start preserving chat
Streaming service Twitch has announced plans to preserve a video’s chat as part of its archive. Which sounds horrific, although to be fair while the chat on more popular streams is often akin to actual hell on earth, smaller streams can often be more productive and interactive. And dare we …
Read More »UFC champ ponders move into full-time video game streaming
Current UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious Johnson has said that he plans to become a full-time game streamer. As per Bloody Elbow‘s transcript of his interview with The Three Amigos, as spotted by Kotaku, Johnson explained that his wife suggested the idea when pondering what he could do once his fighting …
Read More »Amazon launches free triple-A game engine Lumberyard
PC and console tool features support for Twitch and Amazon Web Services, with Oculus SDK compatibility on the way
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