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Overwolf and Twitch will hold app coding contest for gamers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Overwolf is announcing a contest to see who can create the best apps for the Twitch gameplay livestreaming platform.

Tel Aviv-based Overwolf makes software for creating rich overlay apps for PC games, and it can be used to make apps such as Twitch more useful to gamers. With its Twitch App Development Challenge, it will ask developers to create advanced apps that can be placed in its appstore and be downloaded by gamers playing their favorite PC games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.