TwitchCon 2016 will have a Streamline tournament worth $10,000
A competitive game that’s a perfect match for streaming is getting the spotlight at TwitchCon. Twitch announced today that its upcoming TwitchCon 2016, which...
Twitch acquires Curse, its sites, tools for gamers, and databases
Game-streaming site Twitch announced today that it will acquire Curse, which creates programs like voice clients, databases, and mod managers for PC games. Twitch...
Microsoft buys game livestreaming startup Beam to integrate with Xbox
Microsoft wants to add something extra to video livestreaming on the Xbox One, and today’s move will enable this to happen. The company revealed...
What esports can learn from the NFL, Major League Baseball, and the World Cup
As fast as esports has been growing, it still needs to answer a few crucial questions. Unlike traditional sports like soccer or American football,...
‘Twitch plays politics’: Gaming service to stream GOP and Dem conventions
Twitch has announced that it plans to livestream the upcoming political conventions, giving people who are already fed up with the current election season and...
Twitch readies its long-awaited HTML5 video player
Twitch is about to come through on a promise to its game-livestream spectators and broadcasters. The San Francisco gameplay livestreaming company is announcing today...
Twitch’s research shows that livestreaming leads to better game sales
Livestreaming a game on the Twitch video service leads to better sales, according to research that a Twitch seinor researcher released today. That’s an...
Twitch’s Cheers enable fans to fund their favorite livestreamers with premium emotes
Twitch has launched a new way of cheering players that could turn into an important new form of monetization. Dubbed “Cheering,” the new form...
Twitch will give out $63,000 in prizes at TwitchCon cosplay contest
Livestreaming firm Twitch said it would give $63,000 in prizes for a creative cosplay contest at its TwitchCon 2016 event. The prizes for cosplay,...
Irreverent indie house Devolver Digital releases the Xsplit game-broadcasting tool on Steam
You probably get a lot of your games through the Steam download portal, and now one of the better game-broadcasting tools is on the...