Amazon’s second esports tournament will feature Hearthstone and Vainglory
Last year, Amazon tapped and swiped its way into the esports tournament space with Champions of Fire. It’s announced a new tournament later this...
Twitch rebrands Curse desktop app to compete with Discord and Steam
Twitch is headed to your desktop. Amazon’s community broadcasting website is rebranding the Curse app as the Twitch desktop program. In August, Twitch acquired Curse, which is a social platform for gamers.
Amazon bets big on gaming with high-profile hires
Amazon clearly has ambitions in the high end of the game business. Today, it announced that Command & Conquer veteran Louis Castle has become...
Unity’s quest to make the lives of game developers easier
Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello threw out some impressive numbers last week at an event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. He...
Amazon’s Twitch will begin selling games alongside live video
Twitch has an audience of millions of gamers, and now developers can sell games to those people right through the livestreaming video site. Amazon’s Twitch...
Twitch taps IFTTT to turn lights purple when a channel you follow starts livestreaming
IFTTT launched a new channel today to give its users the ability to automate actions based on activity on livestreaming website Twitch. At launch, 15...
Twitch viewers watched 292 billion minutes of livestreams in 2016
Amazon’s Twitch livestreaming service had a big year in 2016, and the company celebrated it by creating an interactive retrospective of the year that...
Ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley starts Amazon game studio after Kickstarter failure
John Smedley, the former chief of Sony’s online business, has joined Amazon to create a new game studio in San Diego, Calif. The move...
Jagex creates RuneScape audio adventure with Amazon Alexa
Alexa, play RuneScape. Fantasy role-playing gamemaker Jagex has created an exclusive audio adventure based on its popular RuneScape PC game for Amazon’s Alexa voice-based intelligent personal assistant.
Amazon’s latest version of Lumberyard game engine targets accessibility
Amazon is unveiling its latest update for its video game creation engine, Lumberyard Beta 1.7, which includes more than 403 new features, improvements, and...