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Twitch has been named the official live streaming partner of E3. The deal between the streaming platform and the event’s owners, Entertainment Software Association, extends for three years, starting with the upcoming E3 2014. This is not the first such deal Twitch has signed – the platform is the official …
Read More »Twitch introduces streaming for mobile games
New SDK allows users to broadcast and capture footage from smartphone titles
Read More »Twitch announces mobile game broadcasting
Twitch has revealed its software development kit for mobile game broadcasting. The SDK allows the capture of footage and audio from both the game and the devices camera and microphone. Furthermore, videos can be uploaded straight away at a variety of qualities. It seems that this kit is more for …
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 »‘Twitch could become a games platform in its own right’
Streaming specialist Twitch says it could become a new platform for games developers following the incredible reaction to ‘Twitch Plays Pokmon’. The social experiment has seen tens of millions of gamers tune into Twitch to play a single game of Pokmon Red. To play, users simply enter the command they …
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 »PS4 and PC title Daylight will let Twitch viewers add scares
Upcoming survival horror title Daylight is adding an extra layer of interactivity. The procedurally-generated game, due out on PS4 and PC on April 8th, will allow Twitch viewers to prompt certain in-game events via Twitch’s chat channels. Joystiq cites examples such as typing meow” to make corresponding sound. Every effect …
Read More »Twitch Plays Pokemon causes system-wide chat problems
Streaming video service Twitch has said that the ongoing Twitch Plays Pokemon stream is causing chat problems across its entire service. Twitch Plays Pokemon has over the last few days seen thousands of players attempt to tackle Nintendo title Pokemon Red via controls input into the stream’s chat window. At …
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