TwitchCon 2015 kicks off later this month.
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Twitch unveils lineup for its real-world TwitchCon event

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Amazon’s Twitch division specializes in streaming live gameplay to more than 100 million people over the Internet every month. But it is staging its annual real-world event, TwitchCon 2015 in San Francisco, this fall. The way things are going, this show ought to be bigger than the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) one day.

The social video platform and community will celebrate everything Twitch, and the event is getting a lot of industry support. Sponsors include Intel RealSense Technology, ArenaNet, and Wargaming.net. It shows that the combination of online and real-world communities can be a powerful thing.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.