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Mobile gamers looking to show off what they are playing are in luck as YouTube Gaming is introducing streaming for mobile devices. At the moment this is limited to Android devices, not iOS, according to a post on the official YouTube blog. In an article on Polygon, Google’s global head …
Read More »Minecraft streamer buys $4.5m property in Hollywood – report
Popular Youtube content creator Jordan CaptainSparklez” Maron has reportedly purchased a $4.5m house in the Hollywood Hills. Variety reports the Minecraft-focused streamer has chosen a plot not far away from the Beverly Hills’ mansion Minecraft creator Notch purchased for a record $70m in December of last year. Maron’s YouTube channel …
Read More »Hearthstone knocks Dota 2 down a place in monthly Twitch rankings
The end of The International and the release of The Grand Tournament has led to Blizzard’s Hearthstone and Valve’s Dota 2 swapping places in the September Twitch charts. Riot’s League of Legends and Valve’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive retain their positions in first and second place. Bungie’s Destiny jumps four places …
Read More »Inaugural TwitchCon draws over 20,000 attendees
Over 20,000 people attended TwitchCon 2015 this past weekend, the game-broadcasting platform has announced. The company also revealed that 1.9m unique online viewers tuned in to the show’s various streams. TwitchCon’s inaugural event took place this past Friday and Saturday in San Francisco, where it was announced that the website …
Read More »Twitch is introducing video uploads
Streaming giant Twitch is to introduce YouTube-style video uploading. CEO Emmett Shear confirmed the news during his TwitchCon 2015 keynote, along with a number of other new features. With YouTube currently embarking on a big drive to pry some streaming market share from its rival, Twitch video uploads will potentially …
Read More »Shower simulator Rinse and Repeat banned from Twitch
Rinse and Repeat is a game about taking a shower. Typically showers are taken when naked. And nudity is pretty much not allowed on Twitch. Rinse and Repeat is described as a ‘first person male showing game’. It’s made by developer Robert Yang and is unashamedly designed to explore homosexuality. …
Read More »YouTube vs Twitch: The battle for the billion dollar streaming market
Last week, Google launched YouTube Gaming. It’s a site dedicated to games video. All gaming content from YouTube is available on the platform, and live-streaming has been made easier than before. It’s an enticing proposition that capitalises on the site’s already huge games audience. Games-related content is amongst YouTube’s most …
Read More »Panda TV aims to be the Chinese competitor to Twitch
The son of China’s richest man is launching a live streaming site that could soon rival Amazon-owned service Twitch. Panda TV is being backed by Wang Sicong, local online celebrity and son of Wang Jianlin, who is estimated to be worth $26.5 billion (Forbes, via VentureBeat). Sicong will serve as …
Read More »‘YouTube Gaming can catch up with Twitch’
YouTube’s new Gaming portal is a genuine threat to Twitch, warn prominent video journalists. Although YouTube comfortably leads the market with video-on-demand content, Twitch has become the platform of choice for live-streaming. Something YouTube hopes to change. YouTube is late to the party, but I’d never discount it as it …
Read More »Until Dawn Twitch archiving block was unintentional
Sony has said that it did not deliberately disable player’s ability to archive their Until Dawn gameplay streams. Twitch users are normally able to archive their streamed footage for those who missed the live broadcast. However, Twitch confirmed earlier this week that the game’s publisher, Sony, had disabled the functionality …
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