Tag: Twitch
Twitch CEO expects phone-style upgrade cycles for home consoles
Emmet Smear, the CEO of game streaming service Twitch has been speculating on the future of the home games console – and has come up with a rather interesting prediction […]
Twitch adds a music library to avoid rights issues
Game streaming service Twitch has added a section to its website called “Twitch Music Library”, featuring hundreds of royalty free tracks on Spotify and Soundcloud that streamers can use to […]
The Digest: Steam takes on Twitch… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title=”Next”] Steam Broadcasting takes on Twitch with game streams | The BBC “Steam – the popular PC video gaming platform – is adding the ability to stream gameplay so […]
Destiny is the most-watched game on Twitch so far in 2014
Destiny has received mixed early reviews, but it has become 2014’s most-viewed console game on the Twitch streaming service. In its first week on sale, Destiny Twitch streams have been […]
Twitch malware can drain users’ Steam accounts
Malware that can spread through Twitch’s chat feature will try to bleed your Steam account dry, according to security software maker F-Secure. The malware originates from an automated account which, […]
5 reasons why Amazon might have bought Twitch
Big news overnight from Amazon, which has bought streaming service Twitch for a cool $970m. Yes – that’s right – Amazon. Twitch had multiple suitors, but it seems that in […]
WATCH: Fish Plays Pokemon
In recent days TwitchPlaysPokemon reached another milestone: the hive-mind of online players successfully finished Pokemon X for 3DS, meaning that collectively all of the major handheld titles have been beaten. […]
Twitch adds audio recognition just days after Google deal
Video game streaming site Twitch has announced the introduction of “Audio Recognition” to on demand videos on the website – putting an end to the musical free-for-all that users were […]
TwitchPlaysPokemon is still going – and is on to Pokemon X for 3DS
Remember TwitchPlaysPokemon? It took the world by storm last February as thousands of players around the world took to Twitch to take control of Game Boy classic Pokemon. It turns […]
5 reasons why Google/YouTube has bought Twitch (Updated)
Big news to wake up to this morning: apparently Google are on the verge of buying game live-streaming service Twitch for a cool one billion dollars. The reports come from Hollywood trade magazine Variety, who report that it is basically…
