SAN FRANCISCO — “Authenticity” in the gaming sphere is both a simple and profoundly complex topic, representing the connection between the ideas, people, and...
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Game-streaming hub Twitch revealed a list of the 10 most-watched games on its site for September. League of Legends remained at the top with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive coming in at second, but Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft took the No. 4 spot from Dota 2, switching their positions from August.
Twitch is larger than ever. The game-broadcasting behemoth is holding its first ever convention this weekend in San Francisco, and it revealed some of the numbers behind its success. This includes a total of 1.7 million individuals who use the Twitch platform to livestream games.
Emmet Shear, chief executive officer of Twitch, announced that the game-livestreaming site will switch over fully from Flash to HTML 5 in the second quarter of 2016. With 1.7 million people broadcasting on Twitch, this is another blow for Flash, which is losing support across the Internet.