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Tickets for Twitch’s debut convention TwitchCon 2015 will go on sale later this week, the company has announced. The event will boast interactive events with Twitch partners, such as streams in Broadcast Pods,” co-op and competitve play together in the gaming lab, meet and greet sessions and more. Those interested …
Read More »ESL One Katowice breaks Twitch record with million-viewer weekend
The Intel Extreme Masters and ESL One weekend in Katowice last month broke the Twitch concurrent viewership record as more than 1m people tuned in to watch. The eSports event hosted world-class tournaments for four of the most popular games in the Spodek Arena, in Katowice, Poland, over March 12-15. …
Read More »Square Enix is currently running what appears to be an interactive Deus Ex reveal
Twitch viewers are being invited to take part in an interactive reveal” of a new title that very much looks like the next Deus Ex game. It’s called CantKillProgress and can be viewed here or at the bottom of this story. Right now it shows some looped video of a …
Read More »Raptr launches Plays.tv video sharing service
Gamer-focused social network Raptr has launched a short form video sharing client called Plays.tv, securing a new round of funding to back the new service. Gamasutra reports on the launch of the new platform, which is described as a combination of Twitch.tv and Instagram. Players are encouraged to capture and …
Read More »More than one year after it started, Twitch Plays Pokémon catches all 151 monsters
Social experiment-meets-endurance test Twitch Plays Pokmon has finally completed its Pokdex, a year after it first went live. Launched back in February 2014, the live Twitch broadcast allowed viewers to input commands into a modified version of 1996 Game Boy title Pokmon Red. The stream, which attracted over 121,000 simultaneous …
Read More »Report: YouTube launching game and eSports streaming service
Google said to be on the hunt for content and broadcasters
Read More »Twitch makes users reset passwords after two potential hacks
Streaming video giant Twitch is forcing users to change their passwords after what was described as unauthorised access to some Twitch user account information”. Furthermore, some users who have already reset their passwords have been contacted again to say that their new password needs changing following another infringement. For your …
Read More »Current console cycle could be last of its kind, Twitch CEO says
The console cycle as we know it may be at an end, according to Twitch CEO Emmett Shear. In an interview with The Guardian, Shear predicts that hardware makers like Microsoft and Sony will shift their console release strategy to fall in line with the more frequent upgrade cycles of …
Read More »Twitch COO: eSports is here to stay
The debate surrounding the legitimacy of eSports as a sport is over. That’s according to Twitch COO Kevin Lin, who told Games Industry that: “Anyone who’s still concerned with legitimacy needs to move on, because it’s here. And it’s here to stay. “The first couple years, between 2010 and 2012, …
Read More »TwitchCon debuts in September
New event from game streaming firm heading to San Francisco's Moscone Center
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