Microsoft relaunches Beam as Mixer, and it has a new feature to compete with Twitch

Microsoft is fighting to stand alongside Twitch and YouTube as a destination for gamers looking for gaming-related video content, and it made some moves today toward that goal.

Beam, the livestreaming video platform that has almost no lag between when you perform an action in a game and when it shows up for your viewers, is now Mixer. Microsoft is also taking this as an opportunity to relaunch the service with several new features. The highlight new addition to Beam is co-streaming, which is a broadcasting option where up to four people can collaboratively livestream gameplay to a single page with its own unified chat room. This is particularly useful for cooperative squads in online competitive games like Halo 5 or PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Mixer is also getting an app on iOS and Android, a dedicated official Mixer channel, and a page of Mixer broadcasters on Xbox One.

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