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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was the most streamed game in Q3 2017

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was the No. 1 game for livestreams in the third quarter, with more than 3.8 million hours streamed on Twitch alone.

That’s one of the facts in a new report on livestreaming from company Streamlabs, which has a platform that allows streamers to collect tips from their viewers. The San Francisco company keeps tabs on streaming, and it has stats that show which platforms are the biggest when it comes to active streamers. Streamlabs said League of Legends dropped to No. 2 in the quarter, with a total of 2.5 million hours of gameplay streamed.

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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.