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...
Pulse is Twitch’s new social feed — and GIF-delivery system
Amazon’s livestreaming video service is getting Pulse, an integrated social media feed that expands how creators can communicate with viewers. Pulse works like a version of Twitter or Facebook where broadcasters can posts videos, images, text, and more that anyone following them will see.
Which gameplay streaming platforms are the fastest or slowest?
Gamers are turning to gameplay livestreams in the tens of millions. But which platform is the most responsive when it comes to delivering video...
Twitch and Reddit partner for live AMA experience at SXSW
Twitch and Reddit have partnered to create a four-day live Ask Me Anything experience at the social event SXSW in Austin, Texas. The ‘Twitch X...
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...
Microsoft rolls out Beam streaming app to select Xbox One owners
You can now stream to more services than just Twitch directly from your Xbox One. Microsoft is releasing an app for its Beam livestreaming...
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...
Twitch introduces communities to discover content and reach audiences
Amazon’s livestreaming platform Twitch is introducing Communities, a new way to discover content and reach the right audiences on the site. The new directory...