Amazon’s Twitch to add video uploads in new battle with YouTube
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitch just strayed into direct competition with YouTube. Emmett Shear, chief executive of Amazon’s Twitch division, announced at the TwitchCon 2015...
TwitchCon 2015 opens with a brief history of livestreaming
The first major convention for Twitch gameplay livestreaming broadcasters has started in at the sprawling Moscone West convention hall. Marcus “DJ Wheat” Graham opened the event, to a ton of and roaring.
Twitch, Electronic Arts, and NFL team up for weekly live show about Madden NFL 2016
Friday is one of the few days left without professional football, but now you can help fill that void with a new show about...
Experience ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ in a 360-degree first-person video from ILMxLab
Lucasfilm’s special-effects department is working on a new frontier of immersive entertainment, and you can get a taste of that on Facebook. This morning,...
Amazon updates Fire TV with Alexa and 4K video, Fire TV stick with voice remote; launches Fire TV Gaming Edition
Amazon today refreshed its Fire TV and Fire TV Stick with a slew of new features. At the same time, the company also launched...
Watch out Amazon, China is launching a Twitch rival called Panda TV
With China’s ecommerce giant Alibaba last week trialling its own live-streaming video service to take on Netflix, it seems that a perhaps equally large story...
Epic’s Unreal Engine virtual reality demo hits Oculus Rift, PS4’s Morpheus, and Vive
Virtual reality is one of the oncoming technical innovations that has the gaming community excited about the future, and game developer and tool creator...
PlayStation 4 gets YouTube livestreaming, extra cloud storage, and more in system update 3.0
The PlayStation 4 is getting a substantial update that will introduce a number of new features, and Sony is trying them out today with...
NPD: Half of U.S. homes with Internet now own a connected TV device
Half of U.S. Internet homes now own a “connected TV device,” which is loosely defined as a gadget hooked up to your TV that...
Noble Transmission uses motion-sensing RealSense camera to change how you view comics
Austin Harrison, head of Noble Transmission, wants to make comics more immersive. And he hopes that the new motion-sensing Intel RealSense camera will help...