Twitch competitor Hitbox is getting 4K livestreaming at 60 frames per second

Live gaming videos on the Internet are about to start looking a whole lot sharper.

Hitbox has told GamesBeat that it plans to start offering the option to broadcast gaming content at a 4K resolution later this year. That will beam video that has four times the pixels of standard 1080p, and it is around twice as pixel-rich as 2K. Hitbox will also enable broadcasters to share this new ultra-high resolution at 60 frames per second. All of this means that people with beefy computers and the fattest bandwidth can run their games at max settings, and anyone with a 4K monitor, TV, or smart device will have content that will fill up all of those pixels.