‘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...
Twitch’s E3 livestreams watched by a staggering 925K concurrent viewers
Microsoft, Sony, Ubisoft, and Nintendo all still need to kick off their presentations and announcements for the massive Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles,...
Twitch’s 100 million viewers watched 800 million hours of esports in the last 10 months
If you’re uncertain why companies like ESPN and Activision have been making big acquisitions and investments in esports, here’s a good answer: because more than...
Game broadcasting software Xsplit attracts 200K new users every month
You have a million ways to livestream your gameplay to sites like Twitch and YouTube, but one of the more professional solutions is getting...
Twitch unveils E3 livestreaming schedule, including a zany kickoff show
Amazon’s Twitch division is going to be at war with Google’s YouTube Gaming and Facebook in livestreaming events at one of the world’s most...